Godin Fretless guitar

Yow...in the December Guitar Player is a review of a new fretless
electric/acoustic guitar, the Glissentar by Godin...it has 11 strings
(nylon), 5 with 2 courses, and one low drone string. Looks killer; this
is a good healthy sign. Funny thing is, Joe Gore, who is quite hip, does
the review, and doesn't mention the word microtonal
once...weird...Hstick

--- In tuning@egroups.com, Neil Haverstick <STICK@U...> wrote:
> Yow...in the December Guitar Player is a review of a new fretless
> electric/acoustic guitar, the Glissentar by Godin...it has 11
strings
> (nylon), 5 with 2 courses, and one low drone string.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's exactly the arrangement of the
oud, the fretless "guitar" of the middle east.

Paul Erlich wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@egroups.com, Neil Haverstick <STICK@U...> wrote:
> > Yow...in the December Guitar Player is a review of a new fretless
> > electric/acoustic guitar, the Glissentar by Godin...it has 11
> strings
> > (nylon), 5 with 2 courses, and one low drone string.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's exactly the arrangement of the
> oud, the fretless "guitar" of the middle east.

Godin is well aware of that:

http://www.godinguitars.com/godinglissentarp.htm

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