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Re: Eberhard's intonation...



Fretless is way harder than fretted, in my opinion.  Been hacking away at fretless bass on a daily basis for the last six years, and I still feel like I suck.  You actually have to use your ear for intonation.  A big drain on CPU cycles.  Not like these fucking guitarist and keyboardist "button pushers."  ;)
 
I look at my hands.  My bass doesn't have lines, but it has dots on the side of the neck (thank god).  But, like I wrote to Mr. Lawson in a private mail regarding the Eberhard thread, I think when the roundwounds chew through this fingerboard I'm going to send it back to Joe Zon and have him put a lined neck on it.  Hey, if Gary Willis, and Jaco use(d) lined necks, why the hell am I so worried about no lines as some kind of legitimacy issue?
 
'Course Manring ain't go no lines and his intonation is pretty good, considering the game of Twister his fingers play to make some of  those chords.  Oh, wait, and Alain Caron doesn't have lines either. 
 
All fretless instrument players play out of tune to a degree.  It's all about how fast you can correct it.  I feel like it's easier to hear out-of-tune-ness on an electric bass because of roundwound strings and their very strong/full harmonic content.  Especially when strings are new. 
 
-J
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Eberhard's intonation...

In a message dated 6/27/03 2:35:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, steve@steve-lawson.co.uk writes:


I'll never buy an unlined fretless bass...


steve.....do you look at your hands when you play?.....or is a fretless instrument that much harder to play than a fretted one?.....michael who frets over everything