unique warwick thumb?

[embellisher]

Just intonation could easily be done on a fretless I imagine.

I wonder how you would score the music written this way.

That's what I say when I hit a note that is out of tune. I am playing in just intonation.

 

[LowEndLobster]

I just checked out that Just Intonation thing.. It confuses me.

 

[Tecx]

Are you shure Jeff?.. I remember seeing that bass on www.microtonal.org, as well as some other sites...

I am not trying to start a pissing contest... I am just curious...

cheers

Alex

It's not microtonal, it is fretted that way for just intonation.

Most western music uses a twelve tone equal tempered scale, which helped solve problems in manufacturing keyboard instruments in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century,

Here is an informative article: http://www.justintonation.net/whatisji.html

 

[Lockout]

Yeah... I'm no expert on microtonal instruments (quite the opposite actually ) but I counted the number of frets that pass under the B string, and it had ~41.

 

[Tecx]

By jesus your right!..

Alex

Yeah... I'm no expert on microtonal instruments (quite the opposite actually ) but I counted the number of frets that pass under the B string, and it had ~41.

 

[embellisher]

Are you shure Jeff?.. I remember seeing that bass on www.microtonal.org, as well as some other sites...

I am not trying to start a pissing contest... I am just curious...

cheers

Alex

That bass was in Bass Player about 10 years ago, and it was stated in the small article next to the picture that it was set up for just intonation.

 

[embellisher]

Here are pics of some other just intonation stringed instruments.

Here is another Warwick. Is it the same one?

Here is a link to the guys who owns that Warwick. At least I am pretty sure it is. http://www.hansfordrowe.com/just.html

FWIW, just intonation could be considered microtonal, compared to the equal tempered 12 tones scale most of us use.

 

[Hurley]

I understand the concept, but I just don't "get" it. I haven't heard anything that makes me want to switch from my 12-tone ETS. Does anyone have a good recording of some microtonal/just/whatever playing?

embellisher, I really like that site. Good post.

 

[Tecx]

Indian and Afgan music for one... As far as Western recordings, there is Harry Partch, and for stringed instruments - Glenn Branca... He is one of the godfathers of modern microtunal music, hell he taught Thurston Moore and Lee Ranoldo how to play guitar... Another guitar player wjo has used microtones is Rhys Chattam.

cheers

Alex

I understand the concept, but I just don't "get" it. I haven't heard anything that makes me want to switch from my 12-tone ETS. Does anyone have a good recording of some microtonal/just/whatever playing?

embellisher, I really like that site. Good post.