OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

[Ted Jackson]

On 14 Oct 2001, at 4:31, root wrote:


>
> A sitar has moveable frets... you slide the frets up and down to get
> different tunings.
>
Are you sure of this?  I don't know a hell of a lot about sitars, but I
thought that the frets were very high, which allowed for differing
finger pressure, making it possible to vary the pitch of the note by
pressing the string closser to the fretboard.  This is the same effect
sought by guitarists who have the fretboards of their guitars
scalloped [e.g. Yngwie and Ritchie Blackmore]...

theo