Re: fretless baritone gtr

[Mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I don't think a fretless Chapman Stick would work at all.  I don't play
one, but my best friend Katrin does and it seemed to me that the sound
was totally based on the string striking the fret after being tapped.  I
imagine without that fret it would just "buzz" out on a flat plank. 
No?  I could be totally wrong.

It seemed a finicky beast as well, she's have to play it at room temp
for a while after it had been in any type of cold. (and we only live in
the San Francisco area, so we're not talking BRRRRR)  Before warmed up a
lot of the strings would barely sound.  This was an oak instrument, and
probably wouldn't happen with a carbon fiber model.

I'd send some mail to Emmet before I went and started ripping frets off
a $1000+ instrument.

Mark Sottilaro

Louis Rossi wrote:
> 
> Ciao.
> 
> I can swear that someone mentioned a fretless baritone gtr here a few 
>weeks
> ago..…Can someone point me to it?  Did that Godin Gliss. have a longer
> scale? I had toyed around with getting another chapman stick & making one
> side fretless as well.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> LOU
> 
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