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Title: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: 1Boner on July 04, 2012, 02:38:33 PM
What a great idea. I'm guessing it takes a "little" gettin used to.

http://youtu.be/iVzCjlAtuYo
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: icepac on July 04, 2012, 05:05:47 PM
"Fretless bass" with flat metal inserts where frets normally lie to help with hammering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ThulqDmKc
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: icepac on July 05, 2012, 06:08:29 PM
Then you have the complete opposite of the fretless guitar.

(http://www.ioffer.com/img/profiles/joyfulnoisemusic/joyfulnoisemusic-gittler_guitar.jpg)
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: GScholz on July 05, 2012, 06:42:39 PM
Shouldn't be more difficult than other fretless string instruments, which is most.

Like the Cello for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09RUuTAM2H0
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: 100Coogn on July 05, 2012, 06:57:19 PM
Shouldn't be more difficult than other fretless string instruments, which is most.
Like the Cello for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09RUuTAM2H0

 :rock :rock  Or a STEEL guitar.  :rock :rock
 
Coogan <<<---Can't play a steel guitar.  :lol
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: Motherland on July 05, 2012, 07:20:56 PM
Shouldn't be more difficult than other fretless string instruments, which is most.

Like the Cello for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09RUuTAM2H0
The cello is not really a chording instrument. It can be polyphonic but that's not really how it's used/meant to be used, which is because/why it's fretless.
Achieving good intonation with a fretless fingerboard is one of the primary challenges with playing an instrument from the violin family... and it's genuinely difficult, which is why most student violinists sound awful.
Really I don't understand the point in this other than to say 'hey look what I can do' as there's not a whole lot more than you can achieve with something like this than is already done regularly with existing techniques, and it cuts out like 79% of the usefulness of the guitar.

It does seem pretty cool with an ebow though
Title: Re: Fretless electric 6 string guitar............
Post by: FiLtH on July 05, 2012, 09:44:24 PM
 I didnt like the sound of that fretless guitar at all.