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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">=Microtonal guitar resources=
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Lots of people like guitars. Lots of people get into microtones. Inexplicably, some people are in both of those categories, and now we have microtonal guitars. The ease with which guitars can be microtonalized is definitely to blame.
Lots of people like guitars. Lots of people get into microtones. Inexplicably, some people are in both of those categories, and now we have microtonal guitars. The ease with which guitars can be microtonalized is definitely to blame.


===Go Fretless!===  
== Approaches to microtonal guitar ==
The most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer. Lots of resources out there -- you might start with http://www.unfretted.com/
=== Fretless ===
Using a fretless guitar is the most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer.


===Refretting===  
==== Websites ====
John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20200812180119/https://www.unfretted.com/ Unfretted – The Fretless Guitar Resource] (archived)
Buzz Kimball on the same - http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html
Metatonal Music/Sword guitars - [[@http://www.metatonalmusic.com/]] - microtonal guitar conversions


Practice with refretted guitars:
=== Refretting ===
[[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]]
Refretting (or retrofretting) an existing guitar consists in adding new frets, moving existing frets and/or removing some of them completely. It is a good option for guitarists who prefer to keep the clean sound of a fretted guitar while keeping some freedom in the choice of pitches available to play.


===Get a new neck!===  
==== Articles (DIY) ====
John Carruthers - http://www.carruthersguitars.com/
* David Canright, [http://web.archive.org/web/20151003124231/http://home.comcast.net/~dcanright/guitar/ "A Justly-Tuned Guitar"] (archived)
Paul Guy - http://www.truetemperament.com/ - curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone
* Buzz Kimball, [http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html "Retrofretting for non-twelve scales"]
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - http://www.brunner-guitars.com/
* Dante Rosati, [http://danterosati.com/justguitar1.html "Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar"]
Ron Sword - [[http://www.metatonalmusic.com|http://www.MetatonalMusic.com]] - Strat and Ibanez necks
* John Starrett, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120429121049/http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jstarret/guitar.html "Microtonal Guitar Conversion FAQ"] (archived)


===Interchangeable Fretboards===  
==== Videos (DIY) ====
Mark Rankin makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards: [[mailto:Mark%20Rankin%[email protected]|Mark Rankin [email protected]]] (remove spaces)
* [[Levi McClain]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRtvBjAwiY "Microtonal Frets Change Everything!"] (2025)
[[http://www.metatonalmusic.com|Sword Guitars Gallery]]


===Adjustable Frets===  
==== Tools (DIY) ====
A guitar with moveable frets that are split, and thus independent for each string, is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar." Wim Hoogewerf has one too.
* [https://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/ FretFind2D], a design tool for custom fretboards
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20170302090038/http://windworld.com/features/tools-resources/ Experimental Musical Instruments – Tools & Resources] (archived)
* [http://chrisvaisvil.com/diy-temporary-cable-tie-guitar-frets-version-2/ Cable Tie Frets] - instruction and examples on using cable ties as frets on a defretted guitar


Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: http://www.chouard.de/
==== Services ====
For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]] [[http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar]]
* [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/conversionservice.html Metatonal Music - Micro-Conversion Services] (USA) - by [[Ron Sword]], for equal temperaments, just intonation and nonoctave tunings


===Quick n Dirty===  
=== Custom guitars/necks/fretboards ===
Main article: [[Moving the bridge hack]]
Instead of refretting their own guitar, some people prefer to order custom-fretted guitars, guitar necks or guitar fretboards, depending on what they already have and what they need.
One tack: take a trashy guitar and move the bridge to a different spot. You'll get a (not necessarily close to equal) division of the octave with ~10-15 notes. [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/24|Dan Stearns]] has done this, and so has [[http://www.elvenminstrel.com/music/tuning/equal/13equal/13tet.htm|David Finnamore]], and more recently //[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUtfiwF6GM|Jason Conklin]]//!
Chris Vaisvil's [[http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779|cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets]] - a great way to try new tunings.


===Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings===  
==== Services ====
An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/27693|this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list]] and
* [http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ Carruthers Guitars] (USA) - custom guitars and custom modifications
[[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/92968|this article on the Yahoo tuning list ]] for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo.
* [http://www.truetemperament.com/ True Temperament] (Sweden) - by Paul Guy, curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone
* [http://www.brunner-guitars.com/ Brunner Guitars] (Switzerland) - produces a guitar with removable neck
* [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/necks.html Metatonal Music - Necks] (USA) - strat and tele necks
* [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/necks.html Metatonal Music - Guitars] (USA) - Stallion Ergonomic Guitar
* [http://www.freenotemusic.com/site/store/guitars.html Freenote Music - Guitars] - by [[Jon Catler]], replacement necks for 19-EDO, 31-EDO, fretless, or twelve-tone-plus.
* Mark Rankin ([/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6fbd7c4dd938486e4d7d8dddfd89384868f83838787f6cfd7ded9d998d5d9db Mark Rankin <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="271e12121616675e464f48480944484a"><nowiki>[email protected]</nowiki></span>] – remove spaces) makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards.
* [https://www.microtoneguitars.com/ MicroTone Guitars] (USA) - by Michael Kudirka, interchangeable fretboards
* [https://www.etsy.com/ca-fr/listing/1154683769/microtonal-strat-tele-ou-jm-style-neck JLJInstruments] (USA) - by John C L Jansen, Microtonal Strat, Tele or JM Style Neck - JI and custom EDO up to 31; also makes [[daxophone]]s
* [https://KiteGuitar.com Kite Guitars] (USA) - sells fretboards, converts guitars, sells converted guitars ([[Kite guitar|41edo skip-fretting]] only).


A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on [[http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html|muzicforums.com]] (also reachable from the above thread).
=== Fretlets ===
Fretlets, or adjustable frets, are short movable frets that can be added to any fretboard. The shortest fretlets are wide enough for a single string, but there are also longer fretlets that cover a few consecutive strings. Due to their shorter length, fretlets can be used to access more pitches without cluttering the fretboard with too many full-length frets.


===[[http://www.tritare.com/|The Tritare]]===
Since they are easily movable, a guitar with fretlets is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar". Wim Hoogewerf has one too.
The Tritare, developed by folks in New Brunswick, Canada, seems to be fretted to a normal 12, but because it features 3-string groups the sound is FM-like and inescapably xenharmonic. Or is it? See [[http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060603/fob7.asp|this Science News article]].


==List of Microtonal Guitarists==  
==== Services ====
Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
* [http://www.chouard.de/ Hervé Chouard] - produces guitars with adjustable frets
David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/
* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] - [https://www.microtonalguitar.org/ Adjustable Microtonal Guitar]
Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm
* [https://fretlet.com/ Fretlet] - produces fretlets of lengths 1 to 6
Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]]
* [https://salamuzik.com/products/fretlet-microtonal-guitar-fret-flf-10 Sala Muzik] - procudes fretlets of length 1
Paul Erlich (Boston) - http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm
David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
John Gzowski (Canada) - [[@http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html]]
Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - [[@http://www.juricajelic.org/]]
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - http://www.microstick.net/
Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - http://www.stenhostfalt.com/
Marc Jones (NYC)
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html
Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [[http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/|http://www.hardcoreguitar.com]]
Charles Lucy (London) - http://www.lucytune.com/
Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [[http://GuitareRiveSud.com|GuitareRiveSud.com]]
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788
Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html
Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm
Nadaka (India) - [[@http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html]]
Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - [[@http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm]]
Dante Rosati (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html
Drew Skyfire???
Ron Sword (USA) - [[@http://therealronsword.blogspot.com]]
Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - [[@http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html]]
&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Anders Thidell (Sweden) - [[@http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html]]&lt;/span&gt;
Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - [[@http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html]]
Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer [[@http://chrisvaisvil.com/|Music &amp; Techniques by Chris Vaisvil]]
Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - [[@http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php]]


==Forums==  
=== Quick n Dirty ===
[[@http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/|www.microtonalguitarist.com]] - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar
{{Main|Moving the bridge hack}}
One tack: take a trashy guitar and move the bridge to a different spot. You'll get a (not necessarily close to equal) division of the octave with ~10-15 notes. [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/24 Dan Stearns] has done this, and so has [http://www.elvenminstrel.com/music/tuning/equal/13equal/13tet.htm David Finnamore], and more recently ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUtfiwF6GM Jason Conklin]''!


==Additional Links of Interest==
Chris Vaisvil's [http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779 cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets] - a great way to try new tunings.
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
 
LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
=== Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings ===
A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/makemicromusic/topicId_27693.html this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list] and
A Guitar in 16-EDO - [[http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm]]
 
A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [[http://microtonalismo.com/|http://microtonalismo.com]]
[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/makemicromusic/topicId_23225.html this article on the Yahoo tuning list] for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo. ''(original article is missing, so the original thread is linked)''
A Bass in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[http://www.reverbnation.com/23tdw39|Magna 23]]
 
Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [[http://TheorieMusicale.com|TheorieMusicale.com]]
A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on [http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html muzicforums.com] (also reachable from the above thread).
A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
 
A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/</pre></div>
=== The Kite Guitar ===
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Microtonal frettings with more than 20-something frets per octave can be difficult to play. Those with fewer are usually either not very close to JI, or else are limited in modulation and/or voicing. An exception to this is the [[Kite Guitar]] (see also [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/The%20Kite%20Tuning.pdf Kite Tuning]), a guitar fretting that uses every other step of 41-edo, i.e. 41-ED4 or "20½-edo". The interval between two adjacent open strings is always an odd number of 41-edosteps. Thus each string only covers half of 41-edo, but the full edo can be found on every pair of adjacent strings. Kite-fretting makes 41-edo about as playable as 19-edo or 22-edo, although there are certain trade-offs.
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=== The Tritare ===
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The [http://www.tritare.com/ Tritare], developed by folks in New Brunswick, Canada, seems to be fretted to a normal 12, but because it features 3-string groups the sound is FM-like and inescapably xenharmonic. Or is it? See [http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060603/fob7.asp this Science News article].
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== List of microtonal guitarists ==
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* Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
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* [[David Beardsley]] (NYC)
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:30 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:31: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Quick n Dirty"&gt;Quick n Dirty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
* [[Jon Catler]] (NYC)
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:31 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:32: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings"&gt;Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] (Turkey)
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:32 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:33: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--The Tritare"&gt;The Tritare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
* [[Paul Erlich]] (Boston)
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* [[Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale]] (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
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* David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
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* John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html
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* [[Neil Haverstick]] (Denver)
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:37 --&gt;Lots of people like guitars. Lots of people get into microtones. Inexplicably, some people are in both of those categories, and now we have microtonal guitars. The ease with which guitars can be microtonalized is definitely to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
* Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me
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* Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
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* [[Sten Hostfalt]] (NYC)
The most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer. Lots of resources out there -- you might start with &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:157:http://www.unfretted.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.unfretted.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.unfretted.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:157 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jurica Jelić]] (Croatia)
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* Marc Jones (NYC)
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* Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html
John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:158:http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:158 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com]
Buzz Kimball on the same - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:159:http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:159 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Charles Lucy]] (London)
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:160:http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:160 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - [https://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788 http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788]
Metatonal Music/Sword guitars - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.metatonalmusic.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.metatonalmusic.com/&lt;/a&gt; - microtonal guitar conversions&lt;br /&gt;
* Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html
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* Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
Practice with refretted guitars:&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Rod Poole]] (LA) (d.2007)
&lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/How%20to%20tune%20a%2019edo%20guitar%20by%20ear"&gt;How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Nadaka (India) - http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html
&lt;br /&gt;
* Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [https://guitarerivesud.com Guitare Rive Sud website]
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc3"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Get a new neck!"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 --&gt;Get a new neck!&lt;/h3&gt;
* [[Jean-Pierre Poulin]] (France)
John Carruthers - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:161:http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.carruthersguitars.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.carruthersguitars.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:161 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dante Rosati]] (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
Paul Guy - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:162:http://www.truetemperament.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.truetemperament.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.truetemperament.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:162 --&gt; - curved frets in &amp;quot;true&amp;quot; 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone&lt;br /&gt;
* Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:163:http://www.brunner-guitars.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.brunner-guitars.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.brunner-guitars.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:163 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger
Ron Sword - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.metatonalmusic.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.MetatonalMusic.com&lt;/a&gt; - Strat and Ibanez necks&lt;br /&gt;
* John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html
&lt;br /&gt;
* Drew Skyfire???
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc4"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Interchangeable Fretboards"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 --&gt;Interchangeable Fretboards&lt;/h3&gt;
* [[Ron Sword]] (USA)
Mark Rankin makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards: &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="mailto:Mark%20Rankin%[email protected]" rel="nofollow"&gt;Mark Rankin [email protected]&lt;/a&gt; (remove spaces)&lt;br /&gt;
* Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.metatonalmusic.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sword Guitars Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html
&lt;br /&gt;
* Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc5"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Adjustable Frets"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 --&gt;Adjustable Frets&lt;/h3&gt;
* [[Chris Vaisvil]] (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer
A guitar with moveable frets that are split, and thus independent for each string, is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a &amp;quot;Well-Tempered Guitar.&amp;quot; Wim Hoogewerf has one too.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Michael 'Atonal' Vick]]
&lt;br /&gt;
* Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:164:http://www.chouard.de/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.chouard.de/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.chouard.de/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:164 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Bostjan Zupancic]] (Vermont) mostly 19-EDO - https://sites.google.com/site/bostjanzupancickhereb/home/bostjan/microtones https://sites.google.com/site/bzmmtuning/
For the &amp;quot;Adjustable Microtonal Guitar&amp;quot;: &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.tolgahancogulu.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
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== Forums ==
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc6"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Quick n Dirty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 --&gt;Quick n Dirty&lt;/h3&gt;
* [http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/ www.microtonalguitarist.com] - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar
Main article: &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Moving%20the%20bridge%20hack"&gt;Moving the bridge hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
One tack: take a trashy guitar and move the bridge to a different spot. You'll get a (not necessarily close to equal) division of the octave with ~10-15 notes. &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/24" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dan Stearns&lt;/a&gt; has done this, and so has &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.elvenminstrel.com/music/tuning/equal/13equal/13tet.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;David Finnamore&lt;/a&gt;, and more recently &lt;em&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUtfiwF6GM" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jason Conklin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
== See also ==
Chris Vaisvil's &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779" rel="nofollow"&gt;cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets&lt;/a&gt; - a great way to try new tunings.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]]
&lt;br /&gt;
 
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc7"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 --&gt;Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings&lt;/h3&gt;
== Additional Links of Interest ==
An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/27693" rel="nofollow"&gt;this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;br /&gt;
* picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/92968" rel="nofollow"&gt;this article on the Yahoo tuning list &lt;/a&gt; for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo.&lt;br /&gt;
* LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;muzicforums.com&lt;/a&gt; (also reachable from the above thread).&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm
&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com]
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc8"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--The Tritare"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tritare.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Tritare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
* A Guitar in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[:purdal:Icositría|Ksenthings]]
The Tritare, developed by folks in New Brunswick, Canada, seems to be fretted to a normal 12, but because it features 3-string groups the sound is FM-like and inescapably xenharmonic. Or is it? See &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060603/fob7.asp" rel="nofollow"&gt;this Science News article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com]
&lt;br /&gt;
* A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h2 id="toc9"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources-List of Microtonal Guitarists"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 --&gt;List of Microtonal Guitarists&lt;/h2&gt;
* A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/
Seth Austen (New England) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:165:http://www.sethausten.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.sethausten.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.sethausten.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:165 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A webpage about improving guitar intonation, 12-edo oriented but lots of good info: https://www.portlandguitar.com/pages/guitar-intonation
David Beardsley (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:166:http://www.biink.com/db/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.biink.com/db/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.biink.com/db/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:166 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
Jon Catler (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:167:http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:167 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.tolgahancogulu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Erlich (Boston) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:168:http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:168 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
David 'Fuze&amp;quot; Fiuczynski (Boston?) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:169:http://www.torsos.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.torsos.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.torsos.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:169 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:170:http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:170 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
John Gzowski (Canada) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.juricajelic.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.juricajelic.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:171:http://www.microstick.net/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microstick.net/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.microstick.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:171 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:172:http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:172 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:173:http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:173 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:174:http://www.stenhostfalt.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stenhostfalt.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.stenhostfalt.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:174 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Marc Jones (NYC)&lt;br /&gt;
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:175:http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:175 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.hardcoreguitar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Charles Lucy (London) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:176:http://www.lucytune.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.lucytune.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.lucytune.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:176 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://GuitareRiveSud.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;GuitareRiveSud.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:177:http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788 --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:177 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Chris Morda (Seattle) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:178:http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:178 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Chris Mosley (Portland) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:179:http://www.chrismosley.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.chrismosley.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.chrismosley.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:179 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:180:http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:180 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Nadaka (India) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dante Rosati (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:181:http://www.danterosati.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.danterosati.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.danterosati.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:181 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:182:http://www.ubertar.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ubertar.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.ubertar.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:182 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:183:http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:183 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:184:http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:184 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Drew Skyfire???&lt;br /&gt;
Ron Sword (USA) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://therealronsword.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://therealronsword.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Anders Thidell (Sweden) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://chrisvaisvil.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;Music &amp;amp; Techniques by Chris Vaisvil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h2 id="toc10"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources-Forums"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 --&gt;Forums&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;www.microtonalguitarist.com&lt;/a&gt; - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar&lt;br /&gt;
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picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:185:http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:185 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Five Kite guitars

Lots of people like guitars. Lots of people get into microtones. Inexplicably, some people are in both of those categories, and now we have microtonal guitars. The ease with which guitars can be microtonalized is definitely to blame.

Approaches to microtonal guitar

Fretless

Using a fretless guitar is the most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer.

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Refretting

Refretting (or retrofretting) an existing guitar consists in adding new frets, moving existing frets and/or removing some of them completely. It is a good option for guitarists who prefer to keep the clean sound of a fretted guitar while keeping some freedom in the choice of pitches available to play.

Articles (DIY)

Videos (DIY)

Tools (DIY)

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Custom guitars/necks/fretboards

Instead of refretting their own guitar, some people prefer to order custom-fretted guitars, guitar necks or guitar fretboards, depending on what they already have and what they need.

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Fretlets

Fretlets, or adjustable frets, are short movable frets that can be added to any fretboard. The shortest fretlets are wide enough for a single string, but there are also longer fretlets that cover a few consecutive strings. Due to their shorter length, fretlets can be used to access more pitches without cluttering the fretboard with too many full-length frets.

Since they are easily movable, a guitar with fretlets is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar". Wim Hoogewerf has one too.

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Quick n Dirty

Main article: Moving the bridge hack

One tack: take a trashy guitar and move the bridge to a different spot. You'll get a (not necessarily close to equal) division of the octave with ~10-15 notes. Dan Stearns has done this, and so has David Finnamore, and more recently Jason Conklin!

Chris Vaisvil's cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets - a great way to try new tunings.

Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings

An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list and

this article on the Yahoo tuning list for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo. (original article is missing, so the original thread is linked)

A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on muzicforums.com (also reachable from the above thread).

The Kite Guitar

Microtonal frettings with more than 20-something frets per octave can be difficult to play. Those with fewer are usually either not very close to JI, or else are limited in modulation and/or voicing. An exception to this is the Kite Guitar (see also Kite Tuning), a guitar fretting that uses every other step of 41-edo, i.e. 41-ED4 or "20½-edo". The interval between two adjacent open strings is always an odd number of 41-edosteps. Thus each string only covers half of 41-edo, but the full edo can be found on every pair of adjacent strings. Kite-fretting makes 41-edo about as playable as 19-edo or 22-edo, although there are certain trade-offs.

The Tritare

The Tritare, developed by folks in New Brunswick, Canada, seems to be fretted to a normal 12, but because it features 3-string groups the sound is FM-like and inescapably xenharmonic. Or is it? See this Science News article.

List of microtonal guitarists

Forums

See also

Additional Links of Interest

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