Re : [tuning]guitar frettings

> Lydia Ayers wrote,
>
>>Well, the frets on the sitar are movable ... and performers move them
> whenever
>>they want to retune for a different scale.

To which Paul Erlich replied:

> Yes, that would be a nice feature to have on the acoustic guitar -- Wim
> Hoogewerf has a system with moveable fretlets for each string. But the cost
> (for a system which preserves good tone) seems prohibitive.

Hervé Chouard, Walter Vogt's successor and actually the only (and lonely)
producer of *the* system, told me recently that he has managed to reduce the
cost considerately thanks to a new plastic material for the fretlets,
allowing the use of a mould. Go to:
http://www.chouard.de
(His site has not been updated yet with this information)
--Wim Hoogewerf