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Fw: [tuning] moveable frets

🔗Darren Burgess <DBURGESS@ACCELERATION.NET>

5/10/2000 6:42:09 PM

Shaun,

I happen to have gif images of the patent pages I describe below. If you
want them, please let me know and I will email (about 200k) them to you.
They are also obtainable at www.uspto.gov patent number US04981064 by Walter
Vogt.

Darren

Subject: Re: [tuning] moveable frets

> If you have big bucks ($1000+) contact Wim on this list. He has a movable
> fret classical guitar and knows of luthier (in France I think) that can
> convert guitars. It is a system where each fretlet slides along a channel
> that runs the entire length of the fretboard, allowing for very flexable,
> precise tunings. I have some info in print on this system and there are
> patents with drawings available in the US patent office archives. Don't
> have time to dig it up, so let me know if you are interested.
>
> Wim: wim.hoogewerf@fnac.net
>