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filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:24 am

praisedave wrote:
bassman462 wrote:godin makes a fretless guitar with 11 strings.
at what point does it cease to be a guitar? because i would define a guitar as a 6 stringed fretted instrument

12 string, 7 string, basses are 4 and 5, 11 is just fine.

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:18 am

filmdude100cms wrote:
praisedave wrote:
bassman462 wrote:godin makes a fretless guitar with 11 strings.
at what point does it cease to be a guitar? because i would define a guitar as a 6 stringed fretted instrument
12 string, 7 string, basses are 4 and 5, 11 is just fine.

im just wondering where the line is drawn im not tryin to be a dick haha

filmdude100cms · Unread post by **filmdude100cms** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:48 pm

praisedave wrote:
filmdude100cms wrote:
praisedave wrote:
bassman462 wrote:godin makes a fretless guitar with 11 strings.
at what point does it cease to be a guitar? because i would define a guitar as a 6 stringed fretted instrument
12 string, 7 string, basses are 4 and 5, 11 is just fine.
im just wondering where the line is drawn im not tryin to be a dick haha

i know, just fundamentaly it doesnt matter the strings as long as the theory and playing is similar.

matonfan101 · Unread post by **matonfan101** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 am

gumbo, I play a wide variety of music, but you got my style pretty close. I have played slide guitar for a while now aswell, but only find satisfaction in alternative tunings with slide (which is annoying because I'm constantly retuning). I also dont think a frettless is that alike to slide guitar. It's more about developing the skills to be able to hit the notes and has a pretty different sound. and i guess just being able to say that you can play it is a bit of a hook! how many people do you know who could play one? 8-)

zenful · Unread post by **zenful** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:31 pm

matonfan101 wrote:gumbo, I play a wide variety of music, but you got my style pretty close. I have played slide guitar for a while now aswell, but only find satisfaction in alternative tunings with slide (which is annoying because I'm constantly retuning). I also dont think a frettless is that alike to slide guitar. It's more about developing the skills to be able to hit the notes and has a pretty different sound. and i guess just being able to say that you can play it is a bit of a hook! how many people do you know who could play one?

i would imagine that you would need to use different tunings on a fretless guitar to make certain chord voicings more accessible. otherwise, playing some chords would be impractical

GSR · Unread post by **GSR** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:14 pm

bwaha, good luck with all this.

matonfan101 · Unread post by **matonfan101** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:58 am

GSR wrote:bwaha, good luck with all this.

Why thank you :lol:

Now I'm looking at the Godin fretless acoustic. ( http://www.godinguitars.com/godinmultnylonfretlessp.htm )But I'd say it would cost a packet (does anybody know?). I'll just have to save for a while to get an instrument like this, which like I said sucks, because I dont even know if I'll like it.

sfmartins · Unread post by **sfmartins** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:55 am

I would really like to try one out. Never seen one though.

Good luck!

gumbomadness · Unread post by **gumbomadness** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:55 pm

matonfan101 wrote:gumbo, I play a wide variety of music, but you got my style pretty close. I have played slide guitar for a while now aswell, but only find satisfaction in alternative tunings with slide (which is annoying because I'm constantly retuning). I also dont think a frettless is that alike to slide guitar. It's more about developing the skills to be able to hit the notes and has a pretty different sound. and i guess just being able to say that you can play it is a bit of a hook! how many people do you know who could play one?

i know what you mean-- but about changing tunings for slide-- i pretty much use the slide for solos ala Warren Haynes, so i dont need to change tunings. And if i do want to create chords, i just put it in drop D. Just a suggestion because in drop D you can have the bottom three strings become power chords, and have some other cool barring posibilities.

Howd this go with the fretless?

Andre_GT7 · Unread post by **Andre_GT7** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:06 pm

praisedave wrote:
filmdude100cms wrote:
praisedave wrote:
bassman462 wrote:godin makes a fretless guitar with 11 strings.
at what point does it cease to be a guitar? because i would define a guitar as a 6 stringed fretted instrument
12 string, 7 string, basses are 4 and 5, 11 is just fine.
im just wondering where the line is drawn im not tryin to be a dick haha

and i would say that you are being very narrow minded

matonfan101 · Unread post by **matonfan101** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:22 am

I've kinda put the fretless project on hold for now, at least until i get more money. If i ever get around to buying a new guitar i think i'll convert my beater electric to fretless. I'll post anything further on here for sure, thanks for all the help!

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