Last Tuesday 21 December 2004 16:41, Michal Seta was like: > tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Yes, I came across a Viola da Gamba designed to play Persian scales. > > Moveable gut frets. Possibly a little simpler than you had in mind. > > Gambas have moveable gut frets by default. I almost thought of using > a similar technique for the guitar. The problem is that the fretboard > is too flat for this to make sense. On an electric guitar it's almost > feasible but the frets should be made with some other material than > gut. My guess is that the gut will get easily damaged or cut under > steel strings. You're right of course, my example was a little simplistic. :-] cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
