Re: [tuning] Re: Re 31 tet instruments

"Jonathan M. Szanto" wrote:
>
> >Robert C Valentine wrote:
> > >
> > > You describe where I'm at. I'm still in the process of committing
> > > myself to buying a 31tet guitar (I'm a guitarist, if interested see
> > > www.microtones.com. We used to have their neck-builder on this list and
> > he'll
> > > do other custom work if you wanted a guitar but didn't want a G&L).
>
> David Beardsley wrote:
>
> >I don't think he works on guitars anymore. Apparently
> >he gave it up for the big bucks of web page design.
>
> Well, he mainly decided to stop starving trying to make a living as a
> luthier. Microtonal fretting completely redefines the phrase "niche market".

At any rate, he did incredible work.

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David Beardsley wrote (of Glen Peterson),

> At any rate, he did incredible work.

Boy, I'll second that!

Dan

I've contacted Jon Catler about getting a 31-tET G&L made, and he assures me
that he knows several fine luthiers in NY who are up to the task. By the
way, as a very experienced guitarist, let me assure you all that G&Ls are
extremely fine instruments, easily outclassing Fenders in the same price
range. I recently switched my main (12-tET) guitar from a Les Paul Custom to
a G&L S-500, and though I miss the vocal lead and jazz tones of the Custom,
the G&L gives me great funk and country tones, has the wider string spacing
that my picking hand prefers, and is a blessing to the pinched nerve in my
left shoulder which didn't appreciate the 10-ton Custom hanging from it on a
strap . . .