Re: mockingbird music

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...>" <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
> Glenn Nelson is an outstanding banjoist who played for a bit in my
> group Privateworld. He's also a topnotch luthier (he did the work
on
> my 20-tone equal temperament guitar) that specializes in
handcrafted
> custom stringed instruments:
>
> http://www.mockingbirdmusic.com/
>
> Here's a picture of the 7-string, 25-undertone cutaway acoustic
that
> he made for Thadd Comstock (note that it's only fretted to every
> other fret of this tuning after the octave):
>
> http://www.mockingbirdmusic.com/micro.html

nice work! these frets look equally spaced, so it's obviously not 24
per octave as the caption states . . .

can glenn do frets that don't go all the way across? i'd like to get
a miracle guitar, and right now the only options that look feasible
are a rankin interchangeable fingerboard, and maybe freenote if
they're still in the business . . .

----- Original Message -----
From: <daniel_anthony_stearns@yahoo.com>

> Here's a picture of the 7-string, 25-undertone cutaway acoustic that
> he made for Thadd Comstock (note that it's only fretted to every
> other fret of this tuning after the octave):
>
> http://www.mockingbirdmusic.com/micro.html

Beautiful guitar! It's always nice to know there's luthiers
out there that will do this kind of work.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

>Here's a picture of the 7-string, 25-undertone cutaway acoustic that
>he made for Thadd Comstock (note that it's only fretted to every
>other fret of this tuning after the octave):
>
>http://www.mockingbirdmusic.com/micro.html

Man, that's awesome!

-C.

----- Original Message -----
From: <daniel_anthony_stearns@yahoo.com>

> I doubt Glenn has done any bent fret work

read the legal notice here:

http://www.organicdesign.org/peterson/guitars/

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <davidbeardsley@b...>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...>
>
> > I doubt Glenn has done any bent fret work
>
> read the legal notice here:
>
> http://www.organicdesign.org/peterson/guitars/

i was going to point that out, but i thought it too pedantic -- i was
asking about frets that don't go all the way across, not bent frets.

----- Original Message -----
From: <wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: [tuning] Re: mockingbird music

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <davidbeardsley@b...>
> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <daniel_anthony_stearns@y...>
> >
> > > I doubt Glenn has done any bent fret work
> >
> > read the legal notice here:
> >
> > http://www.organicdesign.org/peterson/guitars/
>
> i was going to point that out, but i thought it too pedantic -- i was
> asking about frets that don't go all the way across, not bent frets.

They not bent, they're curved!

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db