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Maple is VERY different though! Absolutely makes for a different experience.
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Fairly sure that there's at least some element of psychological suggestion to it (and as to how different fingerboards sound as well - not saying there isn't a difference but the more you associate, let's say, maple boards with telecasters and bright country guitar sounds the more you might look at a maple board guitar and hear bright in your head long before you play it).
There are certain stereotypes about guitars that get repeated over and over. Nor that there isn't an element of truth but I'm sure sometimes we believe the stereotype or cliché more than we believe the evidence of our own ears and fingers.
I've no doubt a refret would have sorted it out.
Although I don't own any maple board guitars at present, I don't think the material makes much different to the feel - and only a very slight one to the sound.
My 4 electrics have rosewood boards (Brazillian in the case of my vintage '335) and my 3 acoustics are all ebony. The oldest (a 25 year old D28) has shiny patches where playing has polished the board over the years - it feels really smooth. A new ebony board can feel slightly 'scratchy' compared to a played-in one. This is probably true of rosewood as well but it is a softer material which seems to 'play-in' more quickly.
Above all else - it's the cosmetics and prejudices which probably dictate my preferences the most (Teles 'must' have maple necks, LPCs 'must' have ebony boards, etc)
I can hear a difference, particularly on chords lower down the neck (Em, Amaj) in how the notes end (which frequency's die out first).
I prefer the sound of a rosewood strat, but the feel of a maple fretboard is so good that I would almost always go for maple board.
Don't like ebony atall. And rosewood is a pain in the arse to clean and keep gunk off of, maple just use some lighter fluid, or just a cloth.
Also an old nitro maple fretboard aged naturally looks kick ass imo
I do have a problem with very tall frets. It's probably my poor left hand technique but I find if the frets are really tall, I have issues with some notes sounding sharp where the action of pushing down on the string bends the note due to the height. Likewise I find similar with scalloped boards. But like I say, probably my poor technique.
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I can't imagine not touching the board when playing. It must take the lightest of touches and a true constant perpendicular contact to not touch and feel the board when fretting certain chords or doing bends etc.