Re: [tuning] fretless with a glass fingerboard

"D.Stearns" wrote:

> David Beardsley wrote,
>
> > Ned Evett who made his fretless with a glass(!) fingerboard stopped
> by the booth on Sunday. I've known him by email for a while. He told
> me he has also made these guitars for Joe Satriani an John McLaughlin.
> We're doing a cd trade so hopefully I'll be playing his music on the
> show in the weeks to come. (Special Hindustani Guitar show on right
> now as I type!)
>
> I just heard Ned's stuff for the first time a couple of days ago (I
> had never even heard of him before you posted this bit a while back)
> and I think it's fabulous! He's really making the fretless the front
> and center focal point of his music... and all its playing
> idiosyncrasies and timbral quirks are set into his music like fine
> jewels. Mightily impressive!

I did get his cd, I played on 49/32. I have to update
the archives. He's really something, reminds me of Steve
Vai for some reason. He told me he doesn't know anything about
ratios.

> tuning-abnormal@onelist.com - switch your subscription to abnormal mode.

We're there...

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You should hear Kenta Naga on fretless. I played him
on the January 9, 2000 edition of 49/32.

Here's the review I did for Downtown Music Gallery
Newsletter #42 (http://www.dtmgallery.com):

a-un � Kenta Nagai and Tatsuya Nakatani (no label)
There's been a few fretless guitarists over the
years � Adrian Belew, Ned Evett, Randy Roos, Dave
Fiuczynski, Jon Catler come to mind. Pat Metheny
won a Grammy for his fretless classical performance
on '97's Imaginary Day. I heard about fretless guitarist
Kenta Nagai for months and I finally caught up with
him and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani at the now
regrettably revamped Knitting Factory Alterknit
Theatre a few months ago. They knocked me out,
this cd is a lot like that show.

After a short solo piece where Kenta slides around
on fretless acoustic guitar, we are treated to a
set recorded at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago. Solos and duos:
Tatsuya sometimes favors a lot of friction sounds,
but also spends a lot of time playing his set
melodically yet tensely. As I recall, he had quite
a nice collection of gongs and cymbals. Here Kenta
begins the set on acoustic fretless guitar but
finishes on electric. His playing on fretless displays
a flipped out sense of intonation, I'll never be the
same. There's a nice section where we hear gongs
being struck while a distorted guitar slides in and
out � overtone city � I need more!

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* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* xouoxno@virtulink.com
*
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor
*
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm