[linux-audio-user] in tune - stupid thread [WAS: Tuning Program or wav files?]

[tim hall]

Last Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:50, John Check was like:
> Having frets that shift is an interesting engineering problem.
> One could have a hydraulic insert of some sort or possibly a servo
> controlled wedge system incorporated in the fingerboard. Tricking out the
> actual fret wire might get you enough tolerance not to have
> visible/tactilely nasty seams Somebody somewhere had to have tried
> conceptualizing it.

Yes, I came across a Viola da Gamba designed to play Persian scales. Moveable 
gut frets. Possibly a little simpler than you had in mind.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk