Re: Re: Moveable Bridge guitars

John Chalmers wrote:

> From: John Chalmers <jhchalmers@popmail.ucsd.edu>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the first person to use a moveable bridge
> to obtain more than one ET from a guitar is Erv Wilson who had a guitar
> fretted to 23-tet with a moveable bridge so he could play both 22 and
> 24. Erv did this in the 60's and probably still has the instrument.
>
> Kraig, can you verify this and report?

I believe this guitar was stolen!

>
>
> (Shortly thereafter, he began to work in 41 with a jazz group, "The
> Sound of Feeling," consisting of Gary David and two lovely women who
> also played androids in the Star Trek episode, "Mudd's Women" (or the
> other Mudd episode).)
>
> The errors for these tunings are not great, though there is some
> distortion in lower ends of the scales. Whether such mistuning would be
> acceptable today is questionable, though.
>
> --John
>
> .

-- Kraig Grady
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