Re: [tuning] Digest Number 849

Hi gang-

> My understanding is that Fretlessguitar.com chose them because the
> coating reduces the wear of the roundwound strings (usually the E-G,
> sometimes the D, strings) on the rosewood fingerboard.
>
> Paolo

Fretlessguitar.com is a cool site. I really want to try one of those guitars with built in sustainer. Does yours have one? $700 seems really reasonable for an instrument like this.

> I'm still using the "standard" 8 plus 5 keyboard, although Joel
> Mandelbaum is "threatening" to purchase one of the Bosanquet
> Starrboards... He was even threatening to leave it at my place to
> use with Scala... but I think it will be at some school so that
> everybody can use it.
>
> Joseph Pehrson

Joseph, I don't think I am being too picky when I point out that Starrboard is a different instrument from Harvey Starr's generalized keyboards. I have a picture and description of a Starrboard here: http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/StarrBoard.html. I am beginning a new
polyphonic midi interface (fret scanning) for it, and it will be microtunable. BTW, there are 11 of these instruments in existence, two midi 32 string versions, one 24 string electric, four 36 string electrics, one 54 string electric, two 35 string electrics (Denny Genovese
owns one and is refretting it for JI), and one 25 string acoustic. A 37 string acoustic with interchangable fretboards in in the works, but that is a major project and is quite a way off.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

--- In tuning@egroups.com, John Starrett <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> Hi gang-
>
> > My understanding is that Fretlessguitar.com chose them because the
> > coating reduces the wear of the roundwound strings (usually the E-
G,
> > sometimes the D, strings) on the rosewood fingerboard.
> >
> > Paolo
>
> Fretlessguitar.com is a cool site. I really want to try one of
those guitars with built in sustainer. Does yours have one? $700
seems really reasonable for an instrument like this.

Hi John,

They all have built-in Sustainers, except for the acoustic fretless
that they offer. I couldn't resist the asking price of $649.50
either, so I got one (the Native Pro model). Fernandes doesn't offer
the Sustainiac separately, but a competitor does, in a similar
product called the Sustainiac, and their asking price is around $200
just for that circuit and driver alone. The quality of the
instrument itself turned out to be much higher than I expected it to
be. Mass-produced guitars have come a long way...

Paolo

--- In tuning@egroups.com, John Starrett <jstarret@c...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/13794

> Joseph, I don't think I am being too picky when I point out that
Starrboard is a different instrument from Harvey Starr's generalized
keyboards.

This isn't picky at all. It's a different instrument! I kept
hearing "Starrboard, Starrboard, Starrboard..." and it is an
incredible STRINGED instrument... but an entirely different
instrument from the "Wilson Generalized Keyboard" of Bosanquet
extraction at:

http://catalog.com/starrlab/

Thanks for the correction!
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Joseph Pehrson