Custom headless 10 string unlined fanned fretless

[arsonist]

im not even sure if that thing still qualifies as a guitar! awesome tho!

 

[SD83]

It's like a whole other instrument.

I thought it also looked cool until I saw it finished... totally ruined it for me. But still, impressive instrument. I'd love to hear some sound clips/vids

 

[xwmucradiox]

Looks really tiny. Any videos of you playing it?

 

[vansinn]

Reversed strings, Steinberger gearless tuners and Q-Tuner pickups ...

Very nice build indeed!
Having just gotten a 7-string bass, I think I could get used to a multistring fretless

I'm interested in your experiences with the gearless tuners, like how smooth, tuning stability..
I've been looking at those before; it seems strings gets quite some breakage over the tuner entry point, which may or may not be a problem :dunno:

Also, thanks for the intonation theory reference in your unfretted.com thread, will look up on this, theoretical knowledge is always interesting

 

[bostjan]

Very interesting tuning...the octaves are a little off from 2:1, which you don't see in just tuning, so I'm guessing he's used some sort of pseudo-pythagorean tuning.

 

[Aris_T]

Absolutely beautiful! Love it!!!

 

[Asrial]

Very interesting tuning...the octaves are a little off from 2:1, which you don't see in just tuning, so I'm guessing he's used some sort of pseudo-pythagorean tuning.

He's tuned it in Just Intonation pure major thirds, frequency ratio 5/4 = 386 cents. He starts by tuning string 7 (4th string from lowest) to G2 then tunes up, and down, from there in pure thirds. Tuning is easy by harmonics, tune the 4th harmonic of the higher string to the 5th harmonic of the lower, 5x4 = 4x5 so the strings then have their fundamental frequencies in the ratio 4:5.

What's wrong with tuning an instrument into standard tunings?
That aside; HOLY COW
I do not want one myself, but I WANT TO TRY IT!

 

[ixlramp]

Looks really tiny. Any videos of you playing it?

I'm interested in your experiences with the gearless tuners, like how smooth, tuning stability..

Unfortunately this is not my guitar It belongs to Melle Weijters:

Pick me up and… unfret me! | and if you pick me up, I'll unfret you too!

pick me up...and UNFRET me

 

[Variant]

Insane!!!

 

[heyimdallas]

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
I couldn't imagine trying to navigate that fretboard haha. It's got basically zero reference as to where intonation would be. If I were to make a fanned fretless, I'd REALLY need some lines for intonation.
But if this dude can swing it, props to him!

 

[technomancer]

That is one crazy instrument. I like it

 

[Explorer]

From so much win...

...to so much FAIL.

I have friends and acquaintances who build high end custom instruments, and often they are approached by people who want some new esoteric tuning or severely non-standard features. They give a price quote, and on rare occasions the person goes for it.

What happens next is that all the theoretical ideas behind the "innovation" never really seem to translate into new and unique music which is as interesting as the speculation which led to the instrument.

I'm hoping at some point to hear something on this instrument which couldn't have been achieved any other way. Otherwise I'll not be inclined to forgive transforming an organic-looking design into something more mundane with that coat of banana yellow....

 

[troyguitar]

I love the yellow. It's an outrageous LOOK AT ME instrument, it deserves an obnoxious LOOK AT ME color.

 

[shredzilla509]

That photo with the pavingstones behind it makes it look like some crazy MC Escher stuff. I dig it.

 

[UnderTheSign]

I love the yellow. It's an outrageous LOOK AT ME instrument, it deserves an obnoxious LOOK AT ME color.

Exactly!

Looks like a very cool instrument. The dude lives in Amsterdam which is 30 mins from where I live... Awesome. Gonna see if I can hit him up, haha.