N/S Stick questions - help needed ...
Hi,
This is my first post in this forum and I really enjoy reading through everything written before. It is so helpful to get more information about the N/S Stick, nevertheless I have some questions left and maybe someone is able to answer
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1) I am a hybrid of bass and cello player and I have fallen into love with the N/S Stick. Several years ago I bought a Ned Steinberger basscello and found the boomerang strap system (
http://www.nedsteinberger.com/instruments/systems.php) the most comfortable one I have ever used. Especially it enables a fixed tilting of the instrument towards or from the body, the same as you stabilize your cello with your legs. Now I wonder how this system would work on a N/S Stick. Does someone has experience with this? How vertical can the instrument be placed with the standard strap system?
2) The half fretless option seems to be perfect for my taste of sound. I love the fretless "mmmwwah" but imho the pizzicato of discant strings on a fretless with long scale sounds someway tiny and lacking warmth. Now I wonder if the elevation of the frets on one half of the fretboard lead to an "uneven" feeling when crossing from fretless to fretted an vice versa. How does this affect the string height? Is playability restricted in some way?
Thousand thanks in advance for a feedback
/Uli