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05-14-2010, 04:50 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | It's a rather old design that doesn't sound as good when you use it as when Di Piazza does.
The resulting resonance is interesting but in no way could it replace a fretless or make a fretted sound like one. |
05-14-2010, 04:51 PM
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Seems somewhat like the Danelectro Sitar Guitar concept where the witness point of the saddle is less defined, giving it that warble. Being made of wood is interesting too. |
05-14-2010, 04:58 PM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | Yes it works just like the Sitar Guitar, except that it does actually works. 
Basically the vibration of the string dampens on the wooden blades just like it does against the board of a fretless. |
05-14-2010, 05:52 PM
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Endorser: Dean Markley / Thunderfunk | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Branson, Missouri | | | Well, given how it sounds when Di Piazza plays it, it seems that it can sound very much like a fretless. I would never dream of putting myself in anything close to the same league as DDP but it certainly can be done with that bridge so to me, it warrants investigation. |
06-17-2011, 09:24 PM
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Rolled the dice and ordered one today. We'll see... |
06-17-2011, 10:05 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Willett  Rolled the dice and ordered one today. We'll see... | I can't wait to read about your experience with this bridge.
What kind of bass do you plan to use it on? |
06-17-2011, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg What kind of bass do you plan to use it on? | Custom made, but essentially a 5 string J style with Villex pickups. Chris Stambaugh made the neck for me a few years back, and it's a killer. |
06-21-2011, 03:01 PM
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06-21-2011, 05:30 PM
| | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I'm wondering about the practicability of installing piezo elements in one of these bridges... |
06-21-2011, 05:38 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | What does it cost?
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06-21-2011, 07:27 PM
| | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban What does it cost? | According to the website, above, they offer 4- and 5-string bridges that range from 180 to 265 Euros ($258 to $345)
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06-21-2011, 07:29 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazzdogg According to the website, above, they offer 4- and 5-string bridges that range from 180 to 265 Euros | Saw that, but what's the exchange rate make that in San Diego dollars?
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06-21-2011, 07:32 PM
|  | THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Willett Rolled the dice and ordered one today. We'll see... | Thank you! Subscribed for Marcus, haha. I've been interested in the bridge since I saw the vid a while back. If I had one I'd throw it on my fretless for st00pid mwah! I wonder if that'd actually work?
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06-21-2011, 07:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | It's cheating that's what it is! 
I heard him on a youtube vid using it quite a while ago, v.effective I must say, and it's in tune too  |
06-21-2011, 08:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | Interesting.
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Fretless-like tone with fretted accuracy. Interesting.
Can it sound fretted or is it always "fretless" tone. |
06-21-2011, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | So let me get this straight, it sorta acts like a wooden dampener of sorts?
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06-21-2011, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ShredderMaximus So let me get this straight, it sorta acts like a wooden dampener of sorts? | Based on what I can gather, it seems to me to be this:
The reason a fretless bass sounds the way it does is because although you have a definite witness point at the saddle, you have a indefinite takeoff point at the other end...the other end being your much softer and broader finger.
What this system seems to do is just reverse that. Now the indefinite point is moved to the saddle which is wooden and sloped. Really more of a sitar-like effect, but fretless like in some respects.
Anyway, that's my understanding of it. I'll know more in a few weeks. |
06-21-2011, 09:24 PM
| | | | Fascinating... I'm gonna take this with a grain of salt though, because despite the video, I have a feeling it doesn't quite work that well, but I would love to try it.
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06-21-2011, 09:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Erie, PA | | This is cool, I'm going to subscribe
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