Playing the 'wood' vs playing right on the fret does have a different sound, but that only means that there's two different tonalities.

Even doing that doesn't make the possibilities "infinite".

There is another factor in the equation not discussed so far, and that is the reach of the human hand and how far one can actually stretch fingers and still fret strings, not to mention *which* string combinations. All of this would narrow the field some more, of course.

And we haven't even addressed how many possible combinations simply wouldn't be "musical" in the harmonic sense of the term, either. Usable sometimes, perhaps, but not of mainstream consideration. Even if you include the enharmonic possibilities, the count would still be something not infinite.

Infinity itself is bandied about and highly overrated.

Recent discoveries have even proven that our Universe is not infinite.

So much for the concept "settled science" eh?

Perhaps the most damnable of oxymorons.


--Mac

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