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Last Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:50, John Check was like:

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> 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