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08-12-2005, 10:42 PM
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I had no idea where to post thia but I've been wonderign abotu this for awhile? Can you get/make your own fretless normal 6(or 7) stringed guitar(not bass)? Is the sound similar to a fretless bass? Do any companies make fretless guitars or woudl you have to defret your own?
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08-12-2005, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by CaM90 I had no idea where to post thsi btu I've been wonderign abotu this for awhile? Can you get/make your own fretless normal 6(or 7) stringed guitar(not bass)? Is the sound similar to a fretless bass? Do any companies make fretless guitars or woudl you have to defret your own? | i've seen a couple on ebay before, but i'm not sure who made them |
08-12-2005, 10:45 PM
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b)yes they exist, i think they sound like crap unless you really know what your doing
c) this is TALKBASS not talk guitar no offence.
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08-12-2005, 10:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN | | | Man, I saw a guy play fretless guitar once... It was crazy... But he's the best guitarist I've ever seen or heard, so I don't know how it would sound if a more ordinary player was using it.
His board was epoxied, if anyone wanted to know.
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08-12-2005, 10:47 PM
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08-12-2005, 10:47 PM
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08-12-2005, 11:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver,CO | | | Godin makes an 11 string guitar. Never had the chance to play one, personally.
Shawn Lane played a fretless on at least one recording with Jonas Hellborg. There's the bass connection, 286.
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08-12-2005, 11:06 PM
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08-12-2005, 11:08 PM
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08-12-2005, 11:22 PM
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Affiliated with Looperlative Audio Products | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: San Jose | | Vigier makes fretless guitars with aluminum fingerboards. Ron Thal ( Bumblefoot) is a master player of them. |
08-13-2005, 05:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Oxford, England | | | Another Vigier fan here. As well as their SUPERB basses (of which I have had a couple - one fretless with the 'delat metal' fingerboard - not sure its Aluminium) they make the fretless guitar which im sure is pretty tricky to master! |
08-13-2005, 05:36 AM
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08-13-2005, 05:39 AM
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08-13-2005, 06:23 AM
| | | | I made on for my guitarist- it soundskinda funky- really cool distorted, but he has a lot of trouble playing it so we don't use it much.
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08-13-2005, 06:34 AM
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08-13-2005, 06:40 AM
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08-13-2005, 06:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Norwood, MA | | | David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski plays fretless guitar with a Boston band called Screaming Headless Torsos.
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08-13-2005, 07:57 AM
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Yes, they definitely do exist. But I suspect these are really one-off custom jobs.
One the the first fusion bands that got me playing the bass way back in the early eighties was a Japanese fusion group called Casiopea. The guitarist Issei Noro recorded numerous tracks on various albums using a fretless Yamaha guitar.
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08-13-2005, 08:14 AM
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