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Month: March 2016

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Lehtela Guitar Craft and Ari Lehtela

Posted on 31st March 201631st March 2016 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Profile Ari Lehtela is a fretless guitar player and luthier running his company Lehtela Guitar Craft in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He specialises in hand made instruments and also providing luthe... Read More
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The Evolution of Perdesiz Gitar (Fretless Guitar) in Turkish Music

Posted on 30th March 201631st May 2017 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Perdesiz Gitar In Turkey the Fretless Guitar is called “Perdesiz Gitar” Turkish music is traditionally beyond the scope of instruments with equal temperament tuning, the twelve notes to the octave... Read More
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George Zikos – Artist Profile

Posted on 29th March 201613th April 2016 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
George Zikos was born in 1965 in the Greek port of Thessaloniki on the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. Thessaloniki White Tower and Promanade At the age of 10 he decided he wanted to learn how to pla... Read More
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The Complete Book of Alternate Tunings – Review

Posted on 23rd March 201623rd March 2016 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Mark Hanson Review by Jahloon: Alternate tunings are one of the great benefits to be used with the fretless guitar. They can make a big difference enabling complex chords to be played easily. Slide gu... Read More
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The Influence of Fretless Guitar in Heavy Metal Music

Posted on 16th March 201626th November 2016 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Fretless guitar is very well suited to Heavy Metal music as there are many techniques and doom laden sounds that can be made on the fretless that just cannot be done on a standard guitar. Two surprisi... Read More
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Divagation album review George Zikos – Fretless Guitar

Posted on 9th March 201617th March 2016 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Classification – Really cool chill-out music George Zikos Greek Fretless Guitarist George Zikos has been playing fretless guitar since 1986 and how he slipped under our radar until now is inexp... Read More
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ZR Scarab Fretless Guitar – Signature Arli Liberman

Posted on 5th March 201623rd October 2018 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Last week we visited Zdeněk Rumler’s Workshop to take a look at his latest creation, a custom build for Arli Liberman in New Zealand. Now we have all the photos and specifications of this beautiful... Read More
Yamaha SA 1500 Fretless Guitar

Origins of the Fretless Guitar in the Twentieth Century

Posted on 1st March 201623rd August 2018 by Jahloon (Jeff Berg)
Yamaha SA-1500 Fretless Guitar (1979) Many fretless instruments have existed throughout history and it could be argued some of these are the precursor of the fretless guitar. The fretless guitar is, h... Read More

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