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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2719.1 | A different slant on things | SAHQ::ROSENKRANZ | Rock with Gene & Eddy | Mon May 03 1993 08:25 | 4 |
| Rickenbacker introduced models with slanted frets back in the 70s.
It was a different approach, as all frets had the same slant. However,
it never caught on and now is only of interest to collectors. If I
recall correctly, barre chords became quite difficult.
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| 2719.2 | Seen only photos... | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Son of Spam | Mon May 03 1993 10:54 | 6 |
| I've been reading articles about that multiscale length guitar by Ralph
Novak for several years in some of the luthier magazines I get. Sounds
really interesting. I've been curious at to how it plays, did you try
it Brian?
Greg
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| 2719.3 | | TECRUS::ROST | Don't fry bacon in the nude | Mon May 03 1993 10:55 | 4 |
| Hey, it had six strings on it, I don't know what to do with those
things 8^)
Brian
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| 2719.4 | You can't fool me | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Son of Spam | Mon May 03 1993 12:37 | 2 |
| As *I* recall, your submission on Guitarnotes-I featured you playing a
6 stringer...
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| 2719.5 | | TECRUS::ROST | Don't fry bacon in the nude | Mon May 03 1993 13:00 | 7 |
| Actually, the guitar was brought to a blues jam for some of the
Worcester-area heavies to try out on stage. Being sort of the Shemp
Howard of the local blues scene and obviously a neanderthal bass
player, I was not invited to try it out under fire.
Brian
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| 2719.6 | you coulda won one! | RICKS::CALCAGNI | submit to Fred | Mon May 03 1993 14:16 | 2 |
| They gave one of these away in the monthly GP thing, about a year or so
ago.
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| 2719.7 | They're baaaack!!! | RANGER::WEBER | | Mon May 03 1993 15:54 | 9 |
| Seems like every few years someone invents a guitar with weird frets.
Besides the aforementioned Rickenbacker slanted frets, Gretsch had
"T-Zone Tempered Treble" (slanted above the 12th fret to sharpen the
treble), Gittler had frets that floated in air, Bond had molded frets,
and several people have had multi-scale or polytonal fret positioning.
All have been marketing bombs.
Danny W.
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| 2719.8 | | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Son of Spam | Mon May 03 1993 17:39 | 14 |
| The really sick ones are the ones that have the fret spacing different
for *every* string! Like little bits of fret all over the fretboard.
Hey, the intonation may be incredibly precise, but I bet doing a big
bend is a real pain.
Those Bond things with the molded wedges in the fretboard instead of
frets were pretty wild too. I saw one of 'em when they first came out
in the early 80s. Thought to myself, "what happens when you wear your
fretboard down?" Cool look, not too practical. Way too expensive for
a guitar that was basically a throwaway. Guess you could replace the
fretboard, but I bet the company was outta business before anyone could
get a chance to wear one out...
Greg
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| 2719.9 | upgradable from 32 strings | GJO001::REITER | | Tue May 04 1993 14:04 | 3 |
| Could we put Alpha AXP active electronics onboard and call it a No VAX
guitar, or have I been working on too many proposals?
\Gary
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| 2719.10 | Time for a vacation, Gary | GOES11::G_HOUSE | Son of Spam | Tue May 04 1993 14:37 | 4 |
| What a propeller head...
;^)
Greg (just call me Mr. Unaligned Data)
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