I just acquainted myself with the concept of fanned frets. Very interesting. It then occurred to me that, since not all basses have frets, then there would logically seem to be a potential for a fretless bass with the "fanned" scale length variation. Are there any of these around, and...what would you call that, anyway?
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"Fanned" fretless?
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Dingwall makes 'em:
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Fanned fretless or multi-scale fretless are pretty good descriptions of this design.
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Fanned fretless or multi-scale fretless are pretty good descriptions of this design.
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Almost 10 years ago luthier Bill Conklin built me an 8 string fretless that has what I think could logically called a fretless fanned fingerboard.
Here's a pic.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g161/jauqo/8stringfretlessconklin.jpg
Here's a pic.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g161/jauqo/8stringfretlessconklin.jpg
Huh, that looks...backwards.
I should stop doing searches here and just use google. I found a thread there from TalkBass, and this was linked:
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Also a thought; if I didn't have other higher priorities, I'd buy an SX fretless with the intention of fanning it, just as an experiment.
How am I losing you? If a bass is set up from the factory with parallel frets it can't be set up for fanned. It would cost so much to have done that it wouldn't be cost effective, and you'd be stuck with a fanned SX.
You could buy a Novak neck and that would kinda get you there.
It wouldn't make any sence if you just fanned the frats, wouldn't the intonation be all whacked out? Don't you have to stagger the bride saddles as well?
You could also make an AMC Pacer do a 6.5 sec quarter mile but it's so stupid to even consider such a colossal waste of time and money that no one ever even talks about it.
You'd have to get a customized bridge, individual saddles or whatever and get a fanned neck. C'mon, better buy a bass that's already fanned...
I know what parallel means, but the neck is fretless, so why should that even matter? the whole idea is to make use of the fact that it doesn't have frets to play around with playing in a fanned configuration without having to drop 2-3 G's at least on an instrument. I wouldn't think getting a new bridge with staggered single-string saddles and renutting the neck would be mindblowingly complicated. And yes, i know that the lack of slant at the base of the neck would limit playing range, but for an experiment that's not exactly crucial--you could probably play a good 15 positions up the neck with no trouble.
Bro you're losing me. You can not fan a parallel fretless bass.
Even if it's unlined you just can't pretend it's fanned because your intonation would be all off.
You just don't get it.
