Hey Guys A Lined Fretless Isn't A Fretless

[Embryodead]

The whole point of the fretboard being fretless is not even having a marker where the fret would've been. If you can see the marker, it's not fretless because you'll know where the note is.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kris Sobanski
Date: 19 May 2007, 09:38 PM


uh no, it's a lined fretless. the frets were not removed the neck was is an ebony neck from allparts that is lined where the fretmarkers would be

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Richard
Date: May 19, 2007 3:45 PM


Technically, it's not fretless because you can see the markers. Just no metal on them.

[Jonny B]

Um... If there aren't any frets- it's fretless. See how that works?

[ibnzneksrul]

Originally Posted by Embryodead

If you can see the marker, it's not fretless because you'll know where the note is.

Can I have some of what you've been smoking?

[Poop-Loops]

Hey guys, check out my bass:



See, it's a bass because it has lines on it, so I know where it is. Therefore it's a bass.

[Embryodead]

btw I = Kris Sobanski

[Embryodead]

i sent him the link to this thread.

[WalterBush]

No frets = fretless. I don't care how they're marked. Just because I stick a pencil mark on my DB to show me where the 12th fret would be, if it existed, does not make my DB fretted, simply because I now know where the note is.

[The BurgerMeister]

Originally Posted by Poop-Loops

Hey guys, check out my bass:



See, it's a bass because it has lines on it, so I know where it is. Therefore it's a bass.

poop-loops rocks.

and owing to the lack of frets, a lined fretless is a fretless.

[gkbass13]

so...jaco tore the frets out of his jazz bass....was it not fretless then? this is one of the dumber threads i have seen in my year+ on talkbass.

[morf]

The whole point of the fretless is no frets for a smoother sound. Markers have nothing to do with the concept.

[dave64o]

Wait a minute, that means if you were to listen to a recording of someone playing the same piece on a so called "lined unfretless" and a so called "fretless" that you could hear the difference?!?!?!

I would LOVE a demonstration of that ability!!!

[keb]

Wut?

[Richard Lindsey]

Originally Posted by Embryodead

The whole point of the fretboard being fretless is not even having a marker where the fret would've been. If you can see the marker, it's not fretless because you'll know where the note is.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kris Sobanski
Date: 19 May 2007, 09:38 PM


uh no, it's a lined fretless. the frets were not removed the neck was is an ebony neck from allparts that is lined where the fretmarkers would be

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Richard
Date: May 19, 2007 3:45 PM


Technically, it's not fretless because you can see the markers. Just no metal on them.

Complete and utter nonsense. If I were that "Richard" (which fortunately I am not), I would refrain from saying anything else about fretless, ever, until I actually had a clue about what I was talking about.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Frets are the metal bits, so, it is fretless if it has markers!

[Embryodead]

he linked me to a BC Rich that was unlined and said "That's a fretless"

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by Poop-Loops

Hey guys, check out my bass:



See, it's a bass because it has lines on it, so I know where it is. Therefore it's a bass.

Your Etch-A-Sketch must have a USB port on it.

[Depth_Charge]

Fretless and metal don't mix though!

[Snarf]

Ahahaha, people are actually posting to this thread.

[Spector_Ray]

I think a fretless P-bass is more of an oxymoron.

[Depth_Charge]

Originally Posted by Spector_Ray

I think a fretless P-bass is more of an oxymoron.

Neither I, nor Tony Franklin, agree with that statement