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I have a knock-off telecaster made by Stadium. The strings on it refuse to be in tune with themselves (the G and B strings especially). I hooked it up to a tuner and tested the intonation. The G string when open reads as G, at the 12th fret it also reads as G, The 12th fret harmonic reads G as well. When playing any other fret on that string however it is not an exact note. The notes are off by close to a quarter tone (50 cents) at some places, the 2nd and 3rd frets are particularly bad. I'm at a loss to what is wrong here.
If it's an exceedingly low-quality product, it could just be that the fretboard is badly designed enough that the notes are just not in the right place, but realistically, all guitars exhibit tuning issues with fretted notes. Equal temperament is a compromise to begin with, and the guitar itself even more so.
Assuming it's not actually a manufacturing defect, guitarists have over the years tried to mitigate the problem. If I'm not mistaken, Eddie Van Halen liked to tune his B string slightly flat so that the major chords he played sounded better in tune.
The only real answer to this whole issue has arisen relatively recently thanks to advances in fretboard craftsmanship. The True Temperament system provides you with a neck built specifically for your instrument that moves the fret location for each note so that it is best in tune. Steve Vai in particular has taken a liking to them.
What I think may be happening is that you're fretting on your lower fret (Lets say 12 for sake of argument), and it may be playing the tone that should be heard at 13, or 14 or 15, etc... as if you were fretting that note. What causes that is often that there is a height difference between each fret, and the string is fretting itself on the higher of the two frets, this usually only affects a range of one to two frets before that fret, and on VERY rare occasions, 3 frets.
By (VERY CAREFULLY) filing the higher fret down slightly, you may be able to alleviate the problem without spending a ton of money on a (possibly) cheap guitar. If you're not comfortable doing this yourself, or you just plain don't know how to, find a instrument repair shop, and have them do it, you can try asking if you can sit in while the repair is done, but the answer will vary from shop to shop. Basically, it comes down to your skill level and budget.
It's usually a combination of two issues: one that is easily repairable and one that is not. The latter is that your knockoff telecaster probably wasn't crafted by hand or to a very high standard or with very high quality materials, and the frets aren't set precisely.
The good news is, the intonation of most cheap guitars can be greatly improved with a few simple adjustments. Chances are, your guitar hasn't been set up properly. This includes adjustment of the tension in the truss rod, and fine tuning the bridge to get the intonation as good as possible given the gauges of strings you are using.
I learned to do this stuff myself and usually check the intonation on a guitar whenever I change the strings, especially if I'm changing gauges. It takes practice to get good at it, however. If you understandably don't want to use this as an opportunity to start learning, you can take it to a guitar shop and get a professional opinion, I believe they generally charge around $40 for a proper intonation. They will also know how to set the action up so your guitar might end up easier to play in addition to better in tune.
You said that the 2nd and 3rd frets are especially bad. If the 1st fret is also bad, this indicates to me that there may be an issue with the nut. If these notes are substantially sharp, the nut slot may be too high. If you're inclined, you can attempt to fix this yourself by filing it deeper, but you have to be very careful not to file it wider. Most guitars won't let you adjust the nut's forward-backward placement, but that would also have an effect.
Your primary adjustment for fretted notes is the intonation adjustment at the bridge, but this has very little effect up at the first few frets, hence why I suspect a nut issue. You will have to adjust both to get the intonation correct, though.
The last consideration is technique- if you mash the strings down hard enough, they will always go sharp. If you're fretting too far behind the fret, you will have to push the string sharp to get a clear tone. Use a lighter touch if possible and fret right behind the fret.
Between these two adjustments and proper technique, if you cannot get all the frets within, say, 10 cents of each other, then it may just be poor craftsmanship. Also, I would not attempt to adjust any frets yourself. The height of each fret has a large effect on playability but very little effect on tuning, and it is very difficult to get that right if you're not experienced.
We used to live under a rental system where we had a landlord who delineated the spaces for us to occupy and to live in, both for sowing crops and for raising cattle. It was a life very much governed by what the master said, by the space you had to occupy, and by what I saw my parents having to pay at the end of each year. These were very powerful moments for a teenager.
Through the process of reclaiming our territory I began to think more about how to make my history and the history of my people known. I have always seen, and I continue to see in the media, the stigma that is placed on us indigenous peoples. I wanted to show and make the other side of the story known. That motivated me but I was thinking: "How do I do it, how do I show this?"
In 2003, our mountain valley, the Quebrada de Humahuaca, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. This marked a milestone in the history of our people. I saw that many people were talking about our mountains, our culture, our food. And I said to myself: "but we are that, we know how to do it, we are the guardians of our culture."
When tourists come to the Casa de Celestina, I welcome them, I introduce them to the use of medicinal herbs, such as mate, which we drink in the morning and in the afternoon to energize ourselves. I talk about which herb we take when we are sick, when to harvest it, how to dry it, how to preserve them.
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All that knowledge is there because it has been transmitted from generation to generation. Our mothers, our grandmothers, for me, are the real treasure troves of biodiversity. Our grandparents are those living libraries in our communities. Without them and without that knowledge, I could not be speaking today.
I have learned, by observing, watching, sharing. You have to be there. You have to be contributing to the land, putting wood on the fire, lighting an oven and making your offering. You have to be there at sunset, when the goats are already back in the corral and the grandparents are sitting down. You have to be sharing Pachamama.
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Then we visit my town and our church, which dates back to 1789. We visit the path of herbs, where they also learn about other medicinal herbs such as Muna-Muna, which is for bruises, for muscle pains.
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