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Old 10-09-2008, 12:24 PM
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David 'Fuze' Fiuczynski custom interval shredder guitar
PP-5 Shredder built in the First Act Custom Shop for Fuze. Long scale with 66 frets...basically two extra frets per interval. He's able to get an extremely cool Moroccan and mid-eastern style vibe from it.


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Old 10-09-2008, 12:31 PM
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Old 10-09-2008, 12:35 PM
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oh man ... can't wait to hear it in action. thanks!
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Old 10-09-2008, 12:56 PM
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Should be sold with a pencil sharpener for fingers
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Old 10-23-2008, 10:59 PM
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Should be sold with a pencil sharpener for fingers
Or get people (like me) who have turned their thumbs into points with their blackberry to start using their finger tips!
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Or get people (like me) who have turned their thumbs into points with their blackberry to start using their finger tips!
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Old 10-09-2008, 01:23 PM
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Old 10-09-2008, 01:32 PM
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Fret Job... $1,000.

Being able to play thousands of microtones... priceless.
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Old 10-09-2008, 01:39 PM
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Nice lookin' axe. Is that 36 equal tempered notes per octave? Or are the intervals non-equal?

More info, please...
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Old 10-09-2008, 02:54 PM
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Nice lookin' axe. Is that 36 equal tempered notes per octave? Or are the intervals non-equal?
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I can't recall the actual scale length but it is very close to a bass scale. Each main fret is basically divided into thirds.

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i gues when you can play on a fretless guitar then mastering this should not take him too long .... i will check him out again !
He had never played anything like it (other than a fretless) and as soon as he picked it up he was playing stuff on it that sounded amazing. Most of us around the shop when we picked it up, we didn't know what to do with it!
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Old 10-09-2008, 02:57 PM
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I think I have a headache !
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Old 10-09-2008, 03:18 PM
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I think I have a headache !
Stole my line...although I'm sure Fuze will do brilliant things with this.

Just out of utterly perverse curiosity, though: what do the side markers look like on that neck?

And a slightly more serious question: is the fret placement based on purely mathematical proportions, or optimized to allow for specific microtonal intervals?

Looks like the former to me, which would probably make the music sound quite otherworldly....perhaps almost inhuman. Innaresting...I see some new kind of cyberfusion approaching...
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Old 10-09-2008, 05:05 PM
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He had never played anything like it (other than a fretless) and as soon as he picked it up he was playing stuff on it that sounded amazing. Most of us around the shop when we picked it up, we didn't know what to do with it!
I don't think that's entirely accurate. I used to study with Fuze and he had some microtonal quarter-stepper instruments as well.
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Old 10-09-2008, 05:31 PM
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I don't think that's entirely accurate. I used to study with Fuze and he had some microtonal quarter-stepper instruments as well.
If I'm reading this luthier's posts right, Fuze has moved on past quarter tones to sixth tones.
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Old 10-23-2008, 01:53 PM
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