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    Default Fretless Electric Mandola

    I've wanted a fretless electric mandola ever since I started listening to the Turkish fretless guitar master Erkan Ogur. Looks like someone beat me to it. No actual video footage but some pics of Shri Joy Guha with various instruments. What a lovely sound and some beautiful acoustic mandolin too.

    I also seem to remember that I read somewhere, a few years ago, that Darol Anger (or it may have been Mike Marshall) had a fretless 'dola; can anyone confirm this?

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    Default Re: Fretless Electric Mandola

    Don`t know about fretless mandola but I`ve been toying with the idea of a fretless mandolin .....a sort of shrunken version of the Vigier guitar .....Fiddlers don`t need frets!!!!

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    i think I'd probably need lined fret markers on an electric fretless 'dola, or mandolin.

    I've seen a couple of videos with Guthrie Govan on fretless; the duet with Michael Casswell is a good one. I also love Dave Fiuczynski's work with Hiromi's Sonicbloom band; he plays fretless on a few tracks.

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    Here's Sri Joy Guha with one of his mandolas:

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