He finally understood how to combine his love of classical music with his budding guitar skills and onstage charisma. At 15 Malmsteen worked as a Luthier apprentice in a guitar repair shop, where for the first time he encountered a scalloped neck on 17th century lute. A scalloped neck is similar to a regular fretboard, but with wood "scalloped" or scooped away to form a concave shape in between the frets...
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Malmsteen followed this by scalloping the neck of an old guitar and was impressed enough with the results to try it on his better guitars. The scalloped fret board was somewhat more difficult to play than a normal neck, but his control over the strings was improved so much that he immediately adopted it as a permanent alteration to his equipment...
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