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

[Mark Edmonds]

OK! Yes, you can get non-standard intervals on a conventional fretted
guitar, whether stretching the strings, glass bottles, tremelo arms or even
non-standard tuning. However, by the normal run of things, ie: the guitar
Dave is going to have strapped round his neck for the next gig, the design
of that instrument lends itself to a conventional semi-tone based scale and
not some wierd gigatonic concoction. To draw an analogy with the Eastern
influence business, my prime language is English and I don't think things
out in French before I open my mouth and I'll bet Hawkwind think in terms of
tones and semi-tones first before experimenting with other intervals. That's
all I wanted to say!

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Chris Warburton
> Sent: 17 October 2001 01:19
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> Subject: Re: OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?
>
>
> 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