Mikey Guitar - Mikhail Chtchetinine
makes the World's First Fretted / Fretless String Instruments, guitars and basses, with a neat
mechanical switch at the base of the neck which flips the frets flat.
Timtone Custom
Guitars - Another Canadian Manufacturer, this fretless left hander was built for Asoko Shimmyo
Also check out the fretless
7 string made for Erik Hinds.
Rothstein Guitars - Andy Rothstein's
custom guitar shop in Woodbridge, New Jersey featuring a pictorial fretless conversion done for Vinnie Zummo.
Dark Matter Guitars - located in Rainford, North West England,
and run by fretless friendly luthier Andy Matthews.
Nevborn Guitars - Swedish Luthier who built
Gunnar Backman's doubleneck "Yggdrasil"
O'Donnell Custom Guitars - Melbourne, Australia, specialist
luthiers of Ed Genaro's latest fretless.
Rondo Music - Rondo sell an "Agile"
fretless neck for $50 US, they also sell guitar bodies and accessories. You could build a very respectable
fretless guitar for $250 US.
William Jeffrey Jones Guitars
- a specialist luthier turning out beautiful instruments.
Shops stocking Fretless Guitars
Paradidles, 61 Castle Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 6RN, UK.
Shop manager Phil is stocking fretless guitar conversions by Jim Walker.
Current stock: Black Squier Standard strat, brand new - still has plastic film
on the pickups and scratchplate. Fretless neck is rosewood with white lines.
Setup with Thomastik Infeld Flatwounds (12s). For sale at 169
www.paradiddles.co.uk
Contact Phil on +44 1494 539950
Modern Hungarian Maqam - Sándor Szabó's
site featuring the Hungarian Maqam. Hungarian acoustic guitarist Sándor has patiently peeled back
the layers of Hungarian Folk music to reveal the original Maqams. Highly recommended.
www.hunmaqam.hu
Kronosonic - Late, lamented and closed. It was the Experimental and Post-Modern Guitar
website with a lot of fretless players using the on site forum.
Webmeister IE can be found at:
Occipital Sound
Infinite Ego on Unfretted
Fretless Guitar Festival
- Michael Vick's festival site featuring pictures and news from:
Village Of The Unfretted : NYC Fretless Guitar Festival and CD Release 2005.
The largest Fretless Guitar Festival EVER! Plus the NYC Fretless Guitar Festival 2006.
Music Virtuosity
- Music Virtuosity has a fretless section, but its prime role is correspondance lessons,
via webcam, with some very impressive top artists as tutors.
Harmony
Central - user review(s) of the Godin Multiac Nylon Fretless SA
Oud - Musician and luthier Viken Najarian's Oud site,
features his really outstanding instruments, recordings and accessories. The electric E-1000 brings a
strikingly modern look to the traditional instrument.
Cs - All about the 12 string
fretless banjo
The Cs - Jack Campin
- Great page featuring pictures, tuning, history and advice.
ASZA - The Site for New Directions in World Music
Fretless Zithers.com
- An information resource devoted to the fretless zither.
Gunnar Backman's Mastering Studio
- A performing fretless artist in his own right, Gunnar offers professional mastering services with discounts
for fretless players.
Graphic / Artistic / Design services
Emre Meydan
- The fretless guitarist responsible for our
Wallpaper, and the recent
Unfretting an electric guitar project,
and all of the sumptous artwork on the
Village of the Unfretted
CD, now has a website showcasing his work which features illustration, artwork and website design.
www.emremeydan.com
CD Baby - Its cute and efficient.
Buy Village of the Unfretted at CD Baby
Abstract Logix - Good resource.
Buy
Village of the Unfretted at Abstract Logix
CD Roots - Nice to deal with, lots of ethnic, folk and hard to find CDs.
Guitar Nine Records - stocks all / most fretless CDs.
Buy Village of the Unfretted direct:
Do It Yourself - Unfretting
Fret Not
Guitar Repair - for a more in depth technical look at fret removal.
Stewmac - This is the ultimate defretting tool, every home should have one.
stores.ebay.co.uk/Gotta-have-It
- Peter Woolls has designed a scratchplate adapter for the Roland GK2A pickup which is for sale on his ebay page
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