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Phosphene Audio wrote:Another option is to find a Godin Glissentar or another fretless nylon string instrument and used tied nylon frets. There are tutorials on line for tying lute frets.
in these examples, I wasn't going for microtonality, but just wanted the coursed nylon sound. You can tie on as many nylon frets as you want, in any position:
MrNovember wrote:Holy shit, the Glissentar looks amazing and I absolutely love Godin instruments. I might have to try to find one of those instead of the Marrakesh. I still don't love the idea of a full fretless, but I never really thought about tying nylon frets on
Paul_C wrote:When I get a moment I'm going to try something different, to see what happens . . .
This might already exist somewhere with me completely unaware, but what I'd like to try is to just have three strings, with the lowest string intended to be a drone (probably E to begin with, but I do have some heavier single strings if I want to go lower) the next string a standard interval up (so A in this case) and the third tuned to A to begin with, but hopefully then detuned to a note somewhere between A and Ab to add "colour" to the notes played on the A string.
If that doesn't work then maybe swap that string for something I can tune higher (E again maybe, or perhaps D) and again detune until something interesting starts happening.
I've got an old Harmony that a customer gave me which will be perfect for this, as long as it works - I haven't plugged it in yet !
adamajah wrote:Bummer about difficulties contacting them. The only issue I could see with those is getting the right fret height. Probably not too hard to remedy though.
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