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Music City Bridge Introduces the Space Bar

Music City Bridge Introduces the Space Bar

Upgrade your Gretsch guitar with Music City Bridge's SPACE BAR for improved intonation and string spacing. Compatible with Bigsby vibrato systems and featuring a compensated lightning bolt design, this top-quality replacement part is a must-have for any Gretsch player.


Music City Bridge has introduced the newest item in the company’s line of top-quality replacement parts for guitars. The SPACE BAR is a direct replacement for the original Gretsch Space-Control Bridge and corrects the problems of this iconic design.

As a fixture on many Gretsch models over the decades, the Space-Control bridge provides each string with a transversing (side to side) adjustment, making it possible to set string spacing manually. However, the original vintage design makes it difficult to achieve proper intonation.

Music City Bridge’s SPACE BAR adds a lightning bolt intonation line to the original Space-Control design while retaining the imperative horizontal single-string adjustment capability.

Space Bar features include:

  • Compensated lightning bolt design for improved intonation
  • Individually adjustable string spacing
  • Compatible with Bigsby vibrato systems
  • Traditional vintage styling
  • Made for 12-inch radius fretboards

The SPACE BAR will fit on any Gretsch with a Space Control bridge, including USA-made and imported guitars.

Music City Bridge’s SPACE BAR is priced at $78 and can be purchased at musiccitybridge.com.

For more information, please visit musiccitybridge.com.


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