Fretless guitar

Traditional guitars, and most other stringed instruments, create tones of different heights using the fingers to adjust the length at which the strings vibrate. Contrary to a traditional guitar, the fretless guitar does not have the vertical metal bars on the finger board that constitute the length of the string (when depressed at these points), evenly tempering the available notes. Instead, at a fretless guitar the actual string length runs from the chair (bridge), where the strings are attached to the top of the guitar's body, and all the way up to your finger tip where this presses the string down on the fingerboard. Most of today's fretless guitars are modification of factory made traditionally "fretted" guitars. However, there are also professional builders specialising in fretless guitars. Fretless bass guitars are much more common than fretless guitars in modern music and commerce, with many manufacturers offering these as standardly available models.

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Guitar - Stringed instruments - Tempering - Bass guitar

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Rick Neilson, guitarist for Cheap Trick, has a fretless six-string as the bottom neck on his famous five-necked Hamer guitar.

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Rick Neilson - Cheap Trick - Hamer

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