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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 1, 2020 at 11:15pm

why not? give it a go.. need pics..lol

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on January 2, 2020 at 3:46am

Well I was right calling it a silly idea. I have it backwards, frets are the 'control'. Fretting Diatonic and marking Chromatic doesn't work, the way i have to do it is fret Chromatic and mark the ones to skip for Diatonic.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 4, 2020 at 5:15pm

or go compleatly fretless and mark the diatonic one colour and the others a different colour.

like make the dulcimer frets red and all the others black?? that sort of idea.

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on January 6, 2020 at 3:34am

yeah, I've thought of that. It'll be one or the other, frets or fret;ess. I like the idea of fretless, that

s the way my 2-string bass is built, on the other hand, I think it might play slower (for me at least), with the need for more accurate finger placement. Just not sure...

This also might end up being a single subject test, i.e. a learning for setting frets, ain't done that yet, so maybe just a fretted diatonic on this one. I do want to do a combo on something though... 

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on January 2, 2020 at 1:24pm

I think it sounds like a  cool idea. Give her a whirl.

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Permalink Reply by François on January 5, 2020 at 9:11am

This reminds me vaguely of the Seagull Merlin...

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on January 5, 2020 at 11:13am

Hi, all too hard for me, I had to look up what chromatic and diatonic was, would you believe.  

Found I have been playing one of them for over 50 years, haha.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on January 6, 2020 at 3:30am

Lol...

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