Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Frets

From: WALSH STUART <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:39:42 +0000

On 06/11/2013 11:28, Monica Hall wrote:
>     Dear Collective Wisdom,,
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>     When did fixed, rather than tied on frets become the norm on the
>     guitar?
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>     Monica

Obviously, some time in the 18th century. The middle? The photo of James 
Tyler's "late eighteenth-century guitar: signed 'John Preston'" in The 
Early Guitar clearly shows tied on frets- which is surprising

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