Hi Wolf,
This is why I love this site so much... I got this in an email and I wanted to share it...
I just had an epiphany...
For me, the best sounding bass for natural fingering, and finger sliding, is a fretless bass. So, if the fingers are able to slide smoothly, why enable a sliding pickup(s)?
This is truly the best tracking pickup sliding system I ever seen to date. In fact, it was built so well, you hardly noticed the rails at all. The builder used a clear plastic rail system which clearly looks better than metal rail systems. The flat plastic used, is very subtly applied not to take away the beauty of the wood. WELL DONE!
The bridge, the tail piece is absolutely gorgeous, for it holds on to the spirit and legacy design of all grand upright basses.
A very smooth touch in deed!
The decision to use a system like this one, on a fretless bass makes so much more sense, because fretless basses are more geared toward fingering forms and styles of playing. Unfortunately, I believe a system like this for a fretted bass, would not work. Fretted basses are built, and should be built to be played HARD, and I question whether something like this would be stable enough.
***A fretless pickup system emanates a new style of playing.
I can purely envision someone holding a note on the fret board, and simultaneously sliding the pickup just like a trombone player. Mark my words...
Again, I could be tempted for something like this on a fretless Alembic, if Alembic engineered a flat pickup system, I would remove theirs, and slap on the Alembic pickups. But even better, I would have a full fledged Alembic fretless bass made for the system. Now, that's the ticket!
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on October 02, 2009)
