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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. |
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| ===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. |
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| ===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
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| Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html
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| Sword guitars - http://www.swordguitars.com/ - offers microtonal guitar work
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| 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. |
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| ===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.swordguitars.com
| | * John Starrett, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120429121049/http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jstarret/guitar.html "Microtonal Guitar Conversion FAQ"] (archived) |
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| ===Interchangeable Fretboards=== | | ==== Videos (DIY) ==== |
| | | * [[Levi McClain]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRtvBjAwiY "Microtonal Frets Change Everything!"] (2025) |
| [[http://www.swordguitars.com/Removable_fretboard_guitar_byRSword.jpg|Sword Guitars Gallery]] offers removable fretboard guitars as well. | |
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| ===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 |
| Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: http://www.chouard.de/
| | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20170302090038/http://windworld.com/features/tools-resources/ Experimental Musical Instruments – Tools & Resources] (archived) |
| For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]] [[http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar]]
| | * [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 |
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| ===Quick n Dirty=== | | ==== Services ==== |
| Main article: [[Moving the bridge hack]]
| | * [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/conversionservice.html Metatonal Music - Micro-Conversion Services] (USA) - by [[Ron Sword]], for equal temperaments, just intonation and nonoctave tunings |
| 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]]//!
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| Chris Vaisvil's [[http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779|cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets]] - a great way to try new tunings.
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| ===Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings=== | | === Custom guitars/necks/fretboards === |
| 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
| | 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. |
| [[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.
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| 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).
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| | * [http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ Carruthers Guitars] (USA) - custom guitars and custom modifications |
| | * [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). |
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| ===[[http://www.tritare.com/|The Tritare]]=== | | === Fretlets === |
| 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]].
| | 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. |
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| ==List of Microtonal Guitarists==
| | 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. |
| Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
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| David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/
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| Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm
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| Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]]
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| Paul Erlich (Boston) - http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm
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| David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
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| Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
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| John Gzowski (Canada) - [[@http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html]]
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| Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - [[@http://www.juricajelic.org/]]
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| Neil Haverstick (Denver) - http://www.microstick.net/
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| Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone
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| Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
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| Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - http://www.stenhostfalt.com/
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| Marc Jones (NYC)
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| Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html
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| Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [[http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/|http://www.hardcoreguitar.com]]
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| Charles Lucy (London) - http://www.lucytune.com/
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| Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [[http://GuitareRiveSud.com|GuitareRiveSud.com]]
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| Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788
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| Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html
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| Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
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| Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm
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| Nadaka (India) - [[@http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html]]
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| Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - [[@http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm]]
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| Dante Rosati (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
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| Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
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| James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger
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| John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html | |
| Drew Skyfire???
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| Ron Sword (USA) - http://www.RonSword.com
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| Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - [[@http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html]]
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| <span style="font-family: arial;">Anders Thidell (Sweden) - [[@http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html]]</span>
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| Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - [[@http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html]]
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| Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer [[@http://chrisvaisvil.com/|Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil]]
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| Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - [[@http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php]]
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| ==Additional Links of Interest== | | ==== Services ==== |
| [[http://www.ninestring.org/|www.ninestring.org]] - A specifically microtonal Guitar Forum
| | * [http://www.chouard.de/ Hervé Chouard] - produces guitars with adjustable frets |
| picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
| | * [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] - [https://www.microtonalguitar.org/ Adjustable Microtonal Guitar] |
| LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
| | * [https://fretlet.com/ Fretlet] - produces fretlets of lengths 1 to 6 |
| A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
| | * [https://salamuzik.com/products/fretlet-microtonal-guitar-fret-flf-10 Sala Muzik] - procudes fretlets of length 1 |
| A Guitar in 16-EDO - [[http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm]]
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| A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [[http://microtonalismo.com/|http://microtonalismo.com]]
| | === Quick n Dirty === |
| A Bass in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[http://www.reverbnation.com/23tdw39|Magna 23]]
| | {{Main|Moving the bridge hack}} |
| Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [[http://TheorieMusicale.com|TheorieMusicale.com]]
| | 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]''! |
| A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
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| A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/</pre></div>
| | Chris Vaisvil's [http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779 cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets] - a great way to try new tunings. |
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| | === Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings === |
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| | 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 |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:23 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:24: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Go Fretless!">Go Fretless!</a></div>
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| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:24 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:25: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Refretting">Refretting</a></div>
| | [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)'' |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:25 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:26: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Get a new neck!">Get a new neck!</a></div>
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| | 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). |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:27 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:28: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Adjustable Frets">Adjustable Frets</a></div>
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| | === The Kite Guitar === |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:29 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:30: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings">Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings</a></div>
| | 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. |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:30 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:31: --><div style="margin-left: 3em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--The Tritare">The Tritare</a></div>
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| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:31 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:32: --><div style="margin-left: 2em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources-List of Microtonal Guitarists">List of Microtonal Guitarists</a></div>
| | === The Tritare === |
| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:32 --><!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:33: --><div style="margin-left: 2em;"><a href="#Microtonal guitar resources-Additional Links of Interest">Additional Links of Interest</a></div>
| | 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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| <!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:34 -->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.<br />
| | == List of microtonal guitarists == |
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| | * Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/ |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc1"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Go Fretless!"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 -->Go Fretless!</h3>
| | * [[David Beardsley]] (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 <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:149:http://www.unfretted.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.unfretted.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unfretted.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:149 --><br />
| | * [[Jon Catler]] (NYC) |
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| | * [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] (Turkey) |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc2"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Refretting"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 -->Refretting</h3>
| | * [[Paul Erlich]] (Boston) |
| John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:150:http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html" rel="nofollow">http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:150 --><br />
| | * [[Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale]] (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/ |
| Buzz Kimball on the same - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:151:http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:151 --><br />
| | * David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/ |
| Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:152:http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html" rel="nofollow">http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport/justguitar1.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:152 --><br />
| | * John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html |
| Sword guitars - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:153:http://www.swordguitars.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swordguitars.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:153 --> - offers microtonal guitar work<br />
| | * [[Neil Haverstick]] (Denver) |
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| | * Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me |
| Practice with refretted guitars:<br />
| | * Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html |
| <a class="wiki_link" href="/How%20to%20tune%20a%2019edo%20guitar%20by%20ear">How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear</a><br />
| | * [[Sten Hostfalt]] (NYC) |
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| | * [[Jurica Jelić]] (Croatia) |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc3"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Get a new neck!"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 -->Get a new neck!</h3>
| | * Marc Jones (NYC) |
| John Carruthers - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:154:http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.carruthersguitars.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.carruthersguitars.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:154 --><br />
| | * Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html |
| Paul Guy - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:155:http://www.truetemperament.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.truetemperament.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.truetemperament.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:155 --> - curved frets in &quot;true&quot; 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone<br />
| | * Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com] |
| Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:156:http://www.brunner-guitars.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.brunner-guitars.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.brunner-guitars.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:156 --><br />
| | * [[Charles Lucy]] (London) |
| Ron Sword - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:157:http://www.swordguitars.com --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.swordguitars.com</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:157 --><br />
| | * Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - [https://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788 http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788] |
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| | * Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc4"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Interchangeable Fretboards"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 -->Interchangeable Fretboards</h3>
| | * Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/ |
| Mark Rankin makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="mailto:Mark%20Rankin%[email protected]" rel="nofollow">Mark Rankin [email protected]</a> (remove spaces)<br /> | | * [[Rod Poole]] (LA) (d.2007) |
| <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com/Removable_fretboard_guitar_byRSword.jpg" rel="nofollow">Sword Guitars Gallery</a> offers removable fretboard guitars as well.<br />
| | * Nadaka (India) - http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html |
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| | * Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [https://guitarerivesud.com Guitare Rive Sud website] |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc5"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Adjustable Frets"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 -->Adjustable Frets</h3>
| | * [[Jean-Pierre Poulin]] (France) |
| 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 &quot;Well-Tempered Guitar.&quot; Wim Hoogewerf has one too.<br />
| | * [[Dante Rosati]] (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/ |
| Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:158:http://www.chouard.de/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.chouard.de/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chouard.de/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:158 --><br />
| | * Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/ |
| For the &quot;Adjustable Microtonal Guitar&quot;: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tolgahancogulu.com</a> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar</a><br />
| | * James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger |
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| | * John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc6"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Quick n Dirty"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 -->Quick n Dirty</h3>
| | * Drew Skyfire??? |
| Main article: <a class="wiki_link" href="/Moving%20the%20bridge%20hack">Moving the bridge hack</a><br />
| | * [[Ron Sword]] (USA) |
| 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. <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/24" rel="nofollow">Dan Stearns</a> has done this, and so has <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.elvenminstrel.com/music/tuning/equal/13equal/13tet.htm" rel="nofollow">David Finnamore</a>, and more recently <em><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUtfiwF6GM" rel="nofollow">Jason Conklin</a></em>!<br />
| | * Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html |
| Chris Vaisvil's <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779" rel="nofollow">cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets</a> - a great way to try new tunings.<br />
| | * Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html |
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| | * Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc7"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 -->Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings</h3>
| | * [[Chris Vaisvil]] (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer |
| An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/27693" rel="nofollow">this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list</a> and<br />
| | * [[Michael 'Atonal' Vick]] |
| <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/92968" rel="nofollow">this article on the Yahoo tuning list </a> for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo.<br />
| | * Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php |
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| | * [[Bostjan Zupancic]] (Vermont) mostly 19-EDO - https://sites.google.com/site/bostjanzupancickhereb/home/bostjan/microtones https://sites.google.com/site/bzmmtuning/ |
| A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html" rel="nofollow">muzicforums.com</a> (also reachable from the above thread).<br />
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| | == Forums == |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc8"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources--The Tritare"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tritare.com/" rel="nofollow">The Tritare</a></h3>
| | * [http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/ www.microtonalguitarist.com] - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar |
| 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 <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060603/fob7.asp" rel="nofollow">this Science News article</a>.<br />
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| | == See also == |
| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:&lt;h2&gt; --><h2 id="toc9"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources-List of Microtonal Guitarists"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 -->List of Microtonal Guitarists</h2>
| | * [[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]] |
| Seth Austen (New England) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:159:http://www.sethausten.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.sethausten.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sethausten.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:159 --><br />
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| David Beardsley (NYC) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:160:http://www.biink.com/db/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.biink.com/db/" rel="nofollow">http://www.biink.com/db/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:160 --><br />
| | == Additional Links of Interest == |
| Jon Catler (NYC) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:161:http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:161 --><br />
| | * picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html |
| Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tolgahancogulu.com</a><br />
| | * LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html |
| Paul Erlich (Boston) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:162:http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:162 --><br />
| | * A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/ |
| David 'Fuze&quot; Fiuczynski (Boston?) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:163:http://www.torsos.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.torsos.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.torsos.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:163 --><br />
| | * A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm |
| Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:164:http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/" rel="nofollow">http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:164 --><br />
| | * A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com] |
| John Gzowski (Canada) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html</a><br />
| | * A Guitar in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[:purdal:Icositría|Ksenthings]] |
| Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.juricajelic.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.juricajelic.org/</a><br />
| | * Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com] |
| Neil Haverstick (Denver) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:165:http://www.microstick.net/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microstick.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.microstick.net/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:165 --><br />
| | * A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/ |
| Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:166:http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone" rel="nofollow">http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:166 --><br />
| | * A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/ |
| Wim Hoogewerf (France) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:167:http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:167 --><br />
| | * A webpage about improving guitar intonation, 12-edo oriented but lots of good info: https://www.portlandguitar.com/pages/guitar-intonation |
| Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:168:http://www.stenhostfalt.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stenhostfalt.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stenhostfalt.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:168 --><br />
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| Marc Jones (NYC)<br />
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| Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:169:http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:169 --><br />
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| Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hardcoreguitar.com</a><br />
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| Charles Lucy (London) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:170:http://www.lucytune.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.lucytune.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lucytune.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:170 --><br />
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| Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://GuitareRiveSud.com" rel="nofollow">GuitareRiveSud.com</a><br />
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| Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:171:http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788 --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788" rel="nofollow">http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:171 --><br />
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| Chris Morda (Seattle) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:172:http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:172 --><br />
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| Chris Mosley (Portland) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:173:http://www.chrismosley.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.chrismosley.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrismosley.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:173 --><br />
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| Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:174:http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:174 --><br />
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| Nadaka (India) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html</a><br />
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| Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm</a><br />
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| Dante Rosati (NYC) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:175:http://www.danterosati.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.danterosati.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.danterosati.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:175 --><br />
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| Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:176:http://www.ubertar.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ubertar.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubertar.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:176 --><br />
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| James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:177:http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:177 --><br />
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| John Schneider (Los Angeles) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:178:http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:178 --><br />
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| Drew Skyfire???<br />
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| Ron Sword (USA) - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:179:http://www.RonSword.com --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.RonSword.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.RonSword.com</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:179 --><br />
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| Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html</a><br />
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| <span style="font-family: arial;">Anders Thidell (Sweden) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html</a></span><br />
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| Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html</a><br />
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| Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://chrisvaisvil.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Music &amp; Techniques by Chris Vaisvil</a><br />
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| Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php</a><br />
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| <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:&lt;h2&gt; --><h2 id="toc10"><a name="Microtonal guitar resources-Additional Links of Interest"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Additional Links of Interest</h2>
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| <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ninestring.org/" rel="nofollow">www.ninestring.org</a> - A specifically microtonal Guitar Forum<br />
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| picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:180:http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:180 --><br />
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| LucyTuning a guitar - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:181:http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:181 --><br />
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| A Guitar in 10-EDO - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:182:http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/" rel="nofollow">http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:182 --><br />
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| A Guitar in 16-EDO - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm</a><br />
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| A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://microtonalismo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://microtonalismo.com</a><br />
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| A Bass in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.reverbnation.com/23tdw39" rel="nofollow">Magna 23</a><br />
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| Theorie de la musique (French Site) - <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://TheorieMusicale.com" rel="nofollow">TheorieMusicale.com</a><br />
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| A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:183:http://www.microtonalguitar.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microtonalguitar.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.microtonalguitar.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:183 --><br />
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| A fretless guitar festival in New York - <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:184:http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:184 --></body></html></pre></div>
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