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http://www.lacemusic.com/store/product.asp?id=64&catid=21

take a look at the twisted necks.

seems logical

I wonder what it would feel like. It would probably help me with my wrist difficulties (from breaking my radius)

Id even be interested in trying a slanted fret guitar to see if that would help.
Ive actually switche dto playing/learning lefty because it became such a problem. I figured that was the best solution...

JP

I saw this bassist on TV (that famous guy, bald, long grey hair and beard, plays with everybody) his bass's frets were splayed. That is, fanned from the middle of the neck. Hold your hand in front of you and open your fingers wide and that's pretty much how the frets were laid out. Weird.

I think that would be Lee Sklar who is an endorser for Dingwall basses which uses a Novax fanned fret fretboard.

http://www.dingwallguitars.com/html/main.html

Dat's the guy (I'm getting forgetful), dat's da bass. Thanks. Anyone ever tried one?

FYI: "new innovation" is redundant.

With the neck twisted, how would one figure out when it needed adjustment? Or are they similar to PBC (Bunker) guitars and have necks that never require adjustment?

Lee Sklar is a great bass player even though I don't really like some of the people he has been with (I like James Taylor's old stuff though.)

"FYI: "new innovation" is redundant. "

thats why im not an english major
I think I use letters as variables in equations more then I use them as parts of words in text.

not to mention, upon further searching. twisted necks have been around for a while. so its not really an innovation at all, new or old... well I guess it was an innovation at some point. (too much thought in this)

JP

Hey Josh, I was unfamiliar with the twisted-neck-design guitars, so I'm glad you started this thread.

For those unfamiliar with Bunker's Tension Free™ Neck (which doesn't use a truss rod), here's a link:

http://www.bunker-guitars.com/tf_neck.html

I forgot to add that I've heard 'newscasters' use "new innovation" as well, and they are the ones who should know better!

The worst garbling of the English language by a newscaster that I have heard is the phrase "anti-ERA supporters" ...

Americans haven't spoken English in years. The late Edwin Newman (former newscaster) wrote some excellent books on the downfall of the English language in America.

I've read one of his books, not sure I still have it. It was well written and entertaining, as I recall.

When I was in Mensa, the Mensa Bulletin had a column called SOTS, the Save Our Tongue Society, which detailed misuse of the language by 'professional' writers and newscasters.

Another one from my collection: a television weather person who stated, "... A stationary front is moving across the state ...".

A good one I heard on the CBS Evening news back in the 1970s was from an interview with an official from some natural gas association in regard to vent dampers (dampners?). The association was against their use as an energy-conserving feature on household gas furnaces because if they were misinstalled, they could pose a danger due to carbon monoxide backing up into the building. The official said something like this: "... we want to make sure, on a 100% basis, that someone isn't going to do something to his furnace and then wake up the next morning and find himself dead along with his family ..."

"Yer Moiderin da King's English!" (Curley Howard)

In our local newspaper a few months ago a writer said that some event (I don't recall what)was "possibly imminent"!

Sounds like the newscaster that referred to something as "semi-detached"!

Our esteemed president is doing nothing for the advancement of correct and/or clear English.
"Rarely has the question been asked: Is our children learning?"
"More and more of our imports come from overseas"
and a fresh one from Thursday:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."