I once got a chance to play a fretted fiddle, and I absolutely hated it. (Fiddle is my primary instrument.) I *like* that fiddle don't have frets! But another problem was the fact that the thing was too darned heavy in the neck. You'd have to use your left hand to hold it up, and well, then you couldn't get your fingers to move properly. I don't know. It was an interesting experiment, and an interesting instrument, but my advice to you would be to simply get a real fiddle. It's not all *that* difficult to learn where your fingers ought to go. Plus how are you gonna make a blue note? (Like "C supernatural", for instance?)