Re: [MMM] Need reviews of Mark Rankin's Interchangeable Fingerboards

paul@... wrote:

> Hi folks --
>
> I'm planning to order Mark Rankin's Interchangeable Fingerboard kit,
> preferably to install 22-tET, 31-tET, MIRACLE (with standard 12-tET
> tuning of open strings), and Shrutar frettings (though I may change my
> mind on some of these) on a steel-string acoustic guitar. I remember
> hearing that the kit worked rather well for nylon-string guitar, but
> I'm looking for opinions on the sound of high-quality steel-string
> acoustic guitars with the interchangeable fingerboards.
>
> Though I find nylon-string guitars easier to play, chords such as
> higher-limit Utonal chords sound much better to me on the steel-string
> acoustic guitar than on any other instrument. Probably sympathetic
> vibrations among the higher harmonics have something to do with that.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul

Do you have a URL or an address for this product? I'd be grateful if
you have. Sounds ideal.

Regards.

>
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...>
wrote:
>
>
> paul@s... wrote:
>
> > Hi folks --
> >
> > I'm planning to order Mark Rankin's Interchangeable Fingerboard
kit,
> > preferably to install 22-tET, 31-tET, MIRACLE (with standard 12-
tET
> > tuning of open strings), and Shrutar frettings (though I may
change my
> > mind on some of these) on a steel-string acoustic guitar. I
remember
> > hearing that the kit worked rather well for nylon-string guitar,
but
> > I'm looking for opinions on the sound of high-quality steel-string
> > acoustic guitars with the interchangeable fingerboards.
> >
> > Though I find nylon-string guitars easier to play, chords such as
> > higher-limit Utonal chords sound much better to me on the steel-
string
> > acoustic guitar than on any other instrument. Probably sympathetic
> > vibrations among the higher harmonics have something to do with
that.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
>
> Do you have a URL or an address for this product? I'd be grateful
if
> you have. Sounds ideal.

Mark Rankin made a recent post to the tuning list:

/tuning/topicId_27500.html#27625

I replied to his e-mail address there and he sent me (snail-mail) his
literature . . .

Paul Erlich wrote:

> Mark Rankin made a recent post to the tuning list:
>
> /tuning/topicId_27500.html#27625
>
> I replied to his e-mail address there and he sent me (snail-mail) his
> literature . . .
>

Thanks, I got the link and will follow it up. I'll be interested to see
how the fingerboards check out.

Regards