The Compensated Nut for Composite Chordophones
From “Inside the Bass¨ in The Bass Handbook
[…] the compensated nut […] The system uses […] a special type of shelf nut that overhangs the edge of the fingerboard to compensate for anomalies that those with a fine ear will appeciate.
Said anomalies for a “fine ear¨ refers to the deviation in relative (fine) tuning across the different (mechanical) keys in the given instrument, in this case the composite chordophone, strummed string instrument, or plucked string instrument. Some (mechanical) keys, in other words, will sound in tune while others slightly out of tune, and the compensated nut tries to use the Buzz Feiten system to correct this.
For background on where (and what) the nut is, see 20241215165631-Composite_Chordophone_Hardware_Components.
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- Morrish, John, ed. “Inside the Bass.” In The Bass Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering the Bass Guitar, 1st ed., 11-44. San Francisco, CA: BackBeat, 2005.