Fretless guitar is more common as an electric beast but, it's not very
popular. What baffles me is this one looks to shallow bodied to have any
acoustic volume. So is it electric? If it is, even weirder.
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> From: Hugh Ashton <resonator@j-views.com>
> Reply-To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:29:01 +0900
> To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Conversation: [RESOGUIT-L] What is this?
> Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] What is this?
>
> On 15/08/2006 9:19, "Kathy Barwick" <kathybarwick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> besides, that's just weird. The dobro is already a fretless
>> instrument....whether it has frets, fret markers, or no.
>>
> Squarenecks are fretless, of course. But this didn't look like a squareneck
> to me, and a fretless guitar seems like a really odd beast to me.
>
> However, I did see (and I played a little ) an Arabic oud the other day,
> which is a fretless guitar ancestor.
>
> Hugh
>
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