Tom Stone's "Novatone"

> Also, does anyone know of a source for tangless, glued-on frets? These
>would make fret application possible for those of us with no woodworking
>tools.

I know only that, when Tom Stone's "Novatone" went under, Mark Rankin
said that they had a small outstanding debt to the company that custom-made
that wire for them. They were holding the extrusion die they used to form
it hostage, so to speak. I suppose it's fair to guess that Mark ended up
paying the debt to that company and bought the die, but I don't know that
for certain.
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Gary and other Friends :

I would like to know what Novatone means.
On the other side it seems that the fretboards made by Mark Ranking have
the frets glued on the interchangeable fretboards.
Does anybody know the Patent Number and date of presentation of the Thomas
Stone's on interchangeable fretboard, or other patents ?

Thanks

Eduardo

>Now, this is a little aside of the conversation, but aren't 9:8 and
10:9
>both part of the 5-limit system? Partch includes them in his 5-limit
>chapter in "Genesis". Where does this "9-limit" talk come from? 9
isn't a
>prime number.

It comes from Partch himself, who had two uses for the word limit. The
9-limit means a musical style where ratios of odd numbers less than or
equal to 9 function as consonances.

>Both 9:8 and 10:9 are used in the standard E9th pedal steel. Typically
the
>F# is tuned to 9:8 and lowered to 10:9 with the pedal that raises the B
>(3:2) to C# (5:3). I've always thought of it as a 5-limit system.
There's
>nothing here to really challenge the ear.

We're talking about 9:8 and 10:9 as harmonic simulaneities. Normally a
major second is considered dissonant.

I had no idea that the standard pedal steel guitar had pedals that
lowered pitches by a comma.