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Is there such thing as 12 string fretless guitar?!!
In: Rocking in the free world Thursday Jan 10,2008
Today somebody entered my site searching for 12 strings fretless guitars. Man, is there such thing as 12 strings fretless guitar? What would you do with such an instrument? What would be the use? The exact use of those 12 string would be for strumming while I would find difficult to use chords while fretless…
Anyway, maybe use it like a mandolin? The mandolins I think that have the strings doubled to sound full and can be used at “soloing” at the same time. Because I couldn’t find a picture with a 12 string fretless guitar, here’s a mandolin! 
By the way, if you know somebody knowing somebody who has a friend owning a 12 string fretless axe, let us know!
- Tags: mandolin
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Dr. J
January 10th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
a Sitar would almost qualify (thinking of the drone strings)…
admin
January 10th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
A sitar has frets, Dr J, if you think abut it. Not quite the “usual” type of frets, but still…
Dr. J
January 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I know the top layer of strings does, but you don’t fret the drone strings (and aren’t there like 15 of them!)… But you’re correct…mea culpa!
admin
January 10th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Well, my mistake also, actually. I am not that familiar with sitars, I mean I have never had one in my hands, here in Romania they are not that famous. I guess in US neither
but you seem to know what you speak about while I was not aware of the sympathetic set of strings, I always had the impression that it is kind of a regular string instrument: guitar, mandolin, violin, etc, just one set of strings.
Alex
December 31st, 2009 at 9:27 am
My teacher, David Fiuczynski, plays a double neck guitar. That top neck is fretless and is designed to be used as a 12 string, though he usually just strings it for 6 because he’s not going for an oud sound. There are some videos out there of him playing with all 12 strings on, and it’s a pretty awesome sound.
Joel
April 18th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I have one
Danelectro LB-12 with the frets filed down
Just remember to intonate it first