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

[Chris Warburton]

At 19:54 16/10/01, you wrote:
>On 16 Oct 2001, at 19:13, Mark Edmonds wrote:
>
> > Yes, obviously you can go micro-tonal with non-fretted string
> > instruments (most violinists do that by default!) but I was working on
> > the assumption that Dave's prime musical ideas machine is his guitar
> > and I've never heard of a fretless 6 string.
>
>They DO exist, but few and far between, and nothing mass-
>produced...

Hawaiian guitars? Lap/pedal steels.  Some Nationals...
But all you needs that little glass/steel cylinder on yer 3rd/4th finger!!!!

>Oh yeah...Any of you guys heard of a gadget called a whammy bar?
>
>theo

'Nuff said!!!
Or just push dem strings across the fretboard

ChrisW
NP: The Nightfly/Donald Fagen