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Author:  Charles Schoonmaker Posted:  10/20/02; 7:17:13 PM Topic:  Say it over and over again Msg#:  2949 (in response to 2944) Prev/Next:  2948/2950 Reads:  1120

Eb over F bass.  Wonderful chord.  I managed to produce this on my standad  'E  to e'  tuned guitars but I wouldn't recommend my fretting technique to anyone wearing dentures.

Anthropological / cultural question :  Has anyone out there knowledge of a tribe somewhere that frets stringed instruments with their teeth ?  I believe I saw this sometime years ago on a Nat. Geo. Special or whatever....

 In desperation to produce this otherwise un-fingerable chord,  I bit the bass string F fret while playing Eb on the sixth fret with my left hand.. The resulting wealth of tonality was remarkable.  Teeth and cranial bones are excellent conductors of sound.

 As a result,  I humbly predict a near future fad of having sonic transducers implanted in teeth....a questionable new toy to supplant the headset.

 David,  you may want to kill me for bringing this up on an otherwise chaste music forum but there it is.  Potential future wierdnesses have always been fodder for musicians.     Charles.

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