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Interesting idea. Is this in lieu of a capo since there are not frets?
Doesnt Johnny Lowebow use something like that? I think I saw him on a video moving a sliding round bar closer up to the tuning heads while still playing
I just watched Johnny's video again earlier, he has what looks like a piece of bone or plastic, about the size of a finger, and he moves it up and down between the strings and the fret board. He has a unique approach to getting a groove....
The problem with this is that you would have to have multiple frets and fret positions. If you could move the nut up the neck, then the scale changes as you move the nut, I would think. Easier would be a capo, or learn chords in all 12 (or as many as you want to learn) keys.
You can also look to the tie-on frets they used on lutes and early guitars. Gut was one material used. You could use nylon fishing line today. Fast changes would not be easy, but possible, maybe before the next song.
And I was just reading about a 19th century guitar that used a very complex system of multiple color-coded movable frets to give the player tempering through all keys. It never caught on as a viable commercial system.
Being a musical moron,and i get the capo concept,but surely,with the addition of a capo,all ensuing frets are compromised re intonation,or am i more moronic than i thought,as in 'new' nut is no longer relevant to 1/2 scale at 12 th fret,does the 13 th become a 'pure' octave? Iprobably should have just done the mathematics,but it may help someone else
If the action is too high then bringing the string down to the fret can indeed mess with your intonation, other than that the ratios between string length and fret distances remain the same.
You're no moron, Darryl. I intuitively knew that the frets worked themselves out when you shortened the scale length with a capo. but I couldn't help myself. I pulled out my Excel fret calculator and shortened the scale length by the distance from the nut to the first fret. Sure enough, the location of the "new" first fret calculated to be exactly the distance from the old first fret to the old second fret. It all works out.
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