I've seen that on Arabic instruments, LOL thought you were redeeing to
frettless, as rhode are the instruments I've dealt with, or they had
metal fretts
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:56, Arle Lommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, it's not a Euro things at all. Movable frets are exactly
what the name says: frets that can be moved. Older string
instruments such as lutes usually had frets made from gut that were
tied on to the instrument rather than metal frets set into the
fingerboard. Thus you could slide the frets up and down a bit to
achieve different tunings.
-Arle
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Minstrel Geoffrey wrote:
As a seasoned 20+ year acoustic bass player (double bass, bass
fiddle, contra bass, etc) I've always knew it as "frettless" it
must be a euro thing to say movable frets. The only thing I knew
was movable in classical was the C-clef and I tip my hat to the
players whom use it, I just prefer my standard G & F clefs
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