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If you've ever fought a floppy low B string, you've already met the problem Dingwall solves. Every other string on a standard bass gets the scale length it wants except the thick ones — so the B ends up loose, muddy, and hard to intonate. Sheldon Dingwall's answer, built in Saskatoon, Canada since the 1990s, is the fanned fret: each string gets its own scale length, long where it needs to be long (37 inches on a 5-string's low B) and shorter for the high strings. The result is a low end wi …