Stanley Jordan Guitar - what's this nut all about?

[Twigman]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMrBYlwHqU[/media]
Weird tapping technique jazz fella.....
Check out the nut on his guitar.
Has Mark D Phillips had his hands on it?
Can someone explain why the nut on this guitar looks like it is cut so deep, why it stands so proud between the strings and what is it made of? it looks metallic to me.

Edited August 9, 2013 by Twigman

[Guest bassman7755]

The nut has dampers that stops open strings vibrating so that he doesnt get rogue sympathetic notes when tapping.

[dlloyd]

Similar idea to this:



and this:

Edited August 9, 2013 by dlloyd

[dlloyd]

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[BassTractor]

It's for stopping Robin Hood notes.

[Bilbo]

It absorbs all sense of taste, tone and musicality before it comes out of the guitar..... [size=4] [/size]

[xilddx]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1376147288' post='2170245']
It absorbs all sense of taste, tone and musicality before it comes out of the guitar.....
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I agree, very clever but I find it deeply unmoving, almost a pointless exercise.

[cybertect]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1376080402' post='2169620']
It's for stopping Robin Hood notes.
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[leftybassman392]

If you look carefully you'll see that the fretboard is flat as well (no radiusing). Like others, I'm not a huge SJ fan, but it is an interesting technique. Does have it's limitations though (it's very hard to really attack the notes for example), and doesn't do anything that a good conventional player can't do (Guthrie Govan springs to mind).