Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] in tune - stupid thread [WAS: Tuning Program or wav files?]
From: tim hall (tech_AT_glastonburymusic.org.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 21 2004 - 13:52:26 EET
Last Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:50, John Check was like:
> Having frets that shift is an interesting engineering problem.
> One could have a hydraulic insert of some sort or possibly a servo
> controlled wedge system incorporated in the fingerboard. Tricking out the
> actual fret wire might get you enough tolerance not to have
> visible/tactilely nasty seams Somebody somewhere had to have tried
> conceptualizing it.
Yes, I came across a Viola da Gamba designed to play Persian scales. Moveable
gut frets. Possibly a little simpler than you had in mind.
cheers
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
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