My Son's Guitar Experiment

[Bapu]

He removed the fretboard from the neck of this cheap Ibanez and put on a new un fretted fretboard, and he measured out and put frets in as 19 semitone per octave.

[bayoubill]

I have just the bikini for it!!!!

[InstrEd]

So how does this experiment sound?

[craigb]

3 hours ago, InstrEd said:

So how does this experiment sound?

It's just for looks man!  (Ok, color me curious too!)

Did he make it for Rain?  Those are definitely his colors.  ?

[RobertWS]

4 hours ago, InstrEd said:

So how does this experiment sound?

Ouch.

 

[Notes_Norton]

It looks good. I'm afraid it would give me too many opportunities to play wrong notes. Right now if I hit a bad one, I can always bend it a half step and make it right ;)

[paulo]

So it's like a regular guitar, but with more stripes on the long bit?

 

[Bapu]

16 hours ago, InstrEd said:

So how does this experiment sound?

He says he's going to start working with it to see where it takes him.

Some here may recall my reporting here that my son made his first fretless guitar about a year or so before the Zappa Brothers album Shampoohorn where Dweezil played a fretless guitar on one tune.

[InstrEd]

3 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

I'm afraid it would give me too many opportunities to play wrong notes.

Funny, for me it would be the perfect guitar. I can always blame the D**n Guitar for all the wrong notes I play ?

[Gswitz]

Dweezil is such an amazing rock star! I never miss a chance to get out to see him. One of my favs.

[paulo]

2 hours ago, Bapu said:

Some here may recall my reporting here that my son made his first fretless guitar about a year or so before the Zappa Brothers album Shampoohorn where Dweezil played a fretless guitar on one tune.

So he didn't like it then?

[Colin Nicholls]

19-tone equal temperament is definitely a thing. It's a way of experimenting with minor third intervals that are closer to perfect Pythagorean harmonic intervals than you get with 12-TET.

Other intervals are further "out" than 12-TET but it's all good stuff.

[Bapu]

8 minutes ago, paulo said:

So he didn't like it then?

My son recorded his band's album in my studio. All the songs were played on the fretless guitar he built. I still have the tracks, transferred from ADATs to .wav files.

[paulo]

6 minutes ago, Bapu said:

My son recorded his band's album in my studio. All the songs were played on the fretless guitar he built. I still have the tracks, transferred from ADATs to .wav files.

I meant DZ cos he only used it one tune.?

[Bapu]

Just now, paulo said:

I meant DZ cos he only used it one tune.?

Aha, hard to say. He (DZ) stopped reporting in to me a loooooong time ago.

[paulo]

Just now, Bapu said:

Aha, hard to say. He (DZ) stopped reporting in to me a loooooong time ago.

Typical.

[Gswitz]

10 minutes ago, Bapu said:

My son recorded his band's album in my studio. All the songs were played on the fretless guitar he built. I still have the tracks, transferred from ADATs to .wav files.

You do charge family and friends double, no?

[Jesse Screed]

would this be something similar?  I'm just wondering.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U72rbtrufws

[Wibbles]

On 12/12/2020 at 11:58 PM, Bapu said:

 

I still can't work out which end you're  supposed to blow into. 

[craigb]

I just keep noticing the amp blocking a heating vent...