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▲ markvdb 2 days ago

Why this one is not for me:

- Muscle memory and get decoupled from pitch. Super confusing for people with absolute pitch.

- concern about developing wrist/tendon/muscle problems

- I prefer to use a patent free instrument instead.

Cool to see people experimenting with guitars though!

▲tengwar2 a day ago | parent | next [-]

He doesn't seem to use the Palmfret and the normal frets at the same time on the same string, so confusion over pitch may not be that great. See here: https://youtu.be/po8uUGX4oIQ?si=HXX30wGko_toNjuw.

▲markvdb 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The system used on many arch lutes and theorbos looks so much more elegant and simple to me. They just added a scale of individual strings for bases. Simpler and perfect for muscle memory.

▲72deluxe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have relative pitch and the movement of the tuning of a single string would be baffling to me. It's like if you tune down to D on the bass E string - it's alright but if this was adjusting up/down it would be incredibly confusing. It also "breaks" barre chords