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Posted by Josh Best, --Previous Message--
on 2/24/2005, 2:46 pm, in reply to "Re: slap/pop on fretless"
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Hi Fred,
Thanks for your message. The damage is mostly around the bottom of the fingerboard, where the strings rebound after a pop or slap. Thanks for your recommendations on vibrato.
Josh
: Hey Josh,
: I'm not sure exactly what you mean when
: you say you're begining to "shred"
: the finger board... I've been using the
: "pop & slap" technique since I
: first saw Larry do it on the King Biskit
: Flower Hour, early "70's"... I've
: never damaged a neck with it... I can tell
: you that I made a mess of one fretless neck
: by using across the neck vibrato... (even
: that took several years though). If you're
: grinding a set of round wound strings back n
: forth against the finger board, you WILL
: damage it in time. You'd just have to adapt
: a "forward-aft" vibrato, and
: abandon that "side to side"
: vibrato that fretted instrument player can
: use... besides, the "forward aft"
: vibrato sounds better anyway...
: Hope that helps a little...
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