Microtonal Guitar...

From: Drew Skyfyre <skyfyre@usa.net>

>"Progress on the microtonal guitar home page. Help !"
>
>About Hansford Rowe :
>
>Is he a fretless bass guitarist, like Brad Catler ?

Yep. Jon tells me that Hansford has a frettless with JI markers.
Pretty wild, eh?

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From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com>

>Drew Skyfyre wrote,
>
>>1) The blurb on Jon Catler on the FreeNote Records' BIo page says :
>>"...unprecedented range of consonance and dissonance, alternating
>>between a 49-note per octave and a fretless neck."
>
>>Can someone shed some light on Jon Catler's 49-tone axe ?
>>I wouldn't assume it to be 49-tet since Catler seems more of
>>a JI guy from what I've read.
>
>It's a 13-limit JI system which has 49 notes when reduced to one
octave.
>Catler may not have all 49 notes within one octave; he certainly
doesn't
>have them all on a single string. Someone on the list knows more about
>this . . . was it David Beardsley?

That pretty much sums it up. This is an instrument with
interchangeable fretboards.

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