Quarter Stepper
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This is a very unique "Le Tekro, 1/4 Stepper Guitar" known as "Quarter Stepper". This guitar was made by an American craftman named Bernie Hamburger who made a 12-string for Ronni, and this is a proto-type. It had a Kramer logo as you can see in the picture to your left, but it is not a Kramer. This guitar has twice as many frets as normal guitars do below the 15th fret. Normal guitars have frets like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..., but this Quarter Stepper has frets of 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5... Black frets are the extra frets added to this guitar, and if you play those frets, you get a quarter tone instead of bending a string like you do on the normal guitars. If you play white frets, you get the the same tone as normal guitars. Ronni used this guitar in the solo to Wisdom on Intuition, on Rypdal & Tekro II, and several others. He's been wanting some guitar manufacturers to rebuild this guitar, but he has no luck yet... |
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