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Fw: [tuning] Wim Hoogewerf's moveable-fret guitar

🔗Darren Burgess <dburgess@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

5/27/1999 5:30:10 AM

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From: Darren Burgess <dburgess@acceleration.net>
To: monz@juno.com <monz@juno.com>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [tuning] Wim Hoogewerf's moveable-fret guitar

>Monz,
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>SEJIS has a complete set of 1/1's so a bit of searching proved fruitful.
>The article "A History of the Just Guitar" by John Schneider, is found in
>March 1992, volume 7, #3. It includes a few paragraphs about the Vogt
>moveable fret guitar, including a few excellent close up photos. Only a
>dozen or so were made and Vogt has since passed on. There is a patent on
>the instrument (patent # 3841291.8) and I will be looking it up in the
>patent archives and ordering it. If anyone is interested in seeing the
>photos in this article, please let me know and I will make them available
on
>a webpage.
>
>Darren
>SEJIS
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