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

[Ted Jackson]

On 17 Oct 2001, at 1:18, Chris Warburton wrote:

> 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
>
And...lest we forget that there are fretted microtonal instruments as
well.  G&L make a guitar with a microtonal fretboard offered in
several different intervals.  Not a proprietary design.  They worked
with another luthier who came up with the idea...

theo