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Drew Skyfyre wrote: > > > wow - what a crazy guitar. i tend to pull the frets out of mine alot > > lately but this looks fun! > > > Glen Peterson is one awesome luthier. This has to be the most incredible > fretting EVER done. Unbelievable ! Well, y'all know whom to call if you >need > some excellent guitar work done. His fret work is the best I've ever seen. And I've checked out most every microtonal guitar that's been in the NYC area in the past 6 years. Damm - it's just great work period and I've seen a lot of guitars in the past 25 years. > And it ain't just fun, this instrument has potential that puts a regular > guitar to shame. After posting on Sunday, I did do some recording and now know my direction is minimalism. Actually it has been but I didn't know that my music on this guitar would continue in the tradition. There's some thing about sustained chords on this guitar that the world needs to hear! The DL-4 helps a with this vision a lot by building such an incredible wall of sustain. I think I'm going to listen to the dat tape now and check it out. > > another cool thing i want that (no doubt) costs a big pile of money. > It ain't necessarily so ! This particular instrument is a regular G&L >strat > style,. They can be prdered fretless, which makes it easier & cheaper to > custom fret for non 12-tET. At the most u could have just the neck custom > built by a luthier or ordered form Warmoth or whoever. The fretting costs > will depend on the fretting scheme. For 31-tET for example, there are >about > 3 times as many frets as in a vanilla guitar, plus it's more tedious >work. > > I'm planning on a 41-tET soon as I have the dinero. Email me privately and explain - why 41 tet???? > With re. to looping, one piece of gear that fascinates me & I can't see > myself owning anytime in the near future is Eventide's GTR4000. The > combination of the elaborate delays & harmonizing schemes should make for > some amazing possiblities. Yeah, but they harmonize in ji??? -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * xouoxno@virtulink.com * * 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time" * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm