Fretless   (translated from French)
Fretless Fretless or low fretless is a term often employed to indicate ...
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Fretless guitar
Fretless guitar Fretless bass redirects here. The fretless guitar is a guitar without frets (including similarly configured bass guitars known as fretless bass). It operates in the same manner ... node) of the vibrating string. On a fretless guitar, the vibrating string length runs ...
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Fretless bass   (translated from German)
Fretless bass Fretless bass (fretless = federationless) is a variation of the normal ... in addition it is possible with a Fretless bass, to connect the tones smoothly and ...
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Bass guitar
... course. Electric basses may be fretted or fretless, although fretted basses are far more common in most popular music settings. Fretless basses, which produce a distinctive and expressive ... break the fingerboard into semitone divisions, although fretless basses are also widely available. The original ... However, not all electric basses are Fretted. Fretless basses are known for the smoothness of ... one of the players to bring the fretless bass into the spotlight, having created ...
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Talk:Bass guitar
... string string fretted SCB, one 4 string fretless, and one 8 string. These basses are ... bridge) designs Frets Fretted, like most guitars Fretless, like most Double basses Add in the ... as the next generation do. Also, acoustic, fretless and acoustic fretless (and semi-fretted) instruments are becoming more ... family, electric and acoustic variations, fretted and fretless, and even other 'bass' instruments such ...
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Low   (translated from Portuguese)
... the majority of the guitars Without frets (Fretless) - as the majority of the Contrabasses Styles ... Some artists, as Palladino Bolt, uses low fretless (without frets) for "a more sultry" sound ... Pastorius was responsavel for the popularização of fretless, in years 70. Larry Graham introduced the ... used for Stu Hamm in its ground. Fretless The technique for fretless more is seemed the one of ...
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List of bass guitarists (Blues, Jazz, Rock, Metal)
... Caron (from Uzeb, plays six-string and fretless) Juan Diego Calleros (from Maná) Ron Carter ... the band Daniel Amos) Steve DiGiorgio (using fretless basses, he played in Death, Testament, Iced ... Farinas Bass player for Wind at Night (fretless bass player since 1967) H Peter Hachemer ... Rush, ex-ShadowKeep) Bakhiti Khumolo (South African fretless master; he is best known on the ... Marcus Miller (jazz bassist, developed slapping and fretless technique, played with Miles Davis and ...
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Fret
... stopped with the soft fingertip on a fretless fingerboard. Another advantage of frets is that ... Many fretted instruments are also available in fretless versions. For example, the bass guitar and ... of guitars, but a significant number of fretless basses are also played, in part drawing ... of the double bass (itself, virtually always fretless). Occasionally one can find a fretless classical guitar, though such instruments are ...
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Jaco Pastorius
... composer, notable for his virtuoso technique and fretless bass playing style. He is considered by ... he was responsible for the popularization of fretless electric bass. He introduced a textural approach ... was a fretted model, the other was fretless. The fretless was originally a fretted bass from which ... he played both the fretted and the fretless basses frequently, Jaco preferred the fretless, ...
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Talk:Acoustic bass guitar
... research. I've added information about semi-fretless options to the fret article with links ... Sep 2003 (UTC) Eston bass/fretted or fretless? I've put the caption on the ... mention of the frets. It is actually fretless, I play it regularly and would notice ... body... One could even add Jaco's fretless bass (plucked/unfretted/solid body). ...in the ... its photo in the article. It's fretless. It still gets the occasional outing ( ...
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