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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
Sword guitars - http://www.swordguitars.com/ - offers microtonal guitar work


=== 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.


===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)


===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.swordguitars.com/Removable_fretboard_guitar_byRSword.jpg|Sword Guitars Gallery]] offers removable fretboard guitars as well.


===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


===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]]//!
Chris Vaisvil's [[http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779|cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets]] - a great way to try new tunings.


===[[http://www.tritare.com/|The Tritare]]===  
=== Custom guitars/necks/fretboards ===
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]].
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.


==List of Microtonal Guitarists==  
==== Services ====
Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
* [http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ Carruthers Guitars] (USA) - custom guitars and custom modifications
David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/
* [http://www.truetemperament.com/ True Temperament] (Sweden) - by Paul Guy, curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone
Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm
* [http://www.brunner-guitars.com/ Brunner Guitars] (Switzerland) - produces a guitar with removable neck
Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]]
* [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/necks.html Metatonal Music - Necks] (USA) - strat and tele necks
Paul Erlich (Boston) - http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm
* [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/necks.html Metatonal Music - Guitars] (USA) - Stallion Ergonomic Guitar
David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
* [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.
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
* 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.
John Gzowski (Canada) - [[@http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html]]
* [https://www.microtoneguitars.com/ MicroTone Guitars] (USA) - by Michael Kudirka, interchangeable fretboards
Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - [[@http://www.juricajelic.org/]]
* [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
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - http://www.microstick.net/
* [https://KiteGuitar.com Kite Guitars] (USA) - sells fretboards, converts guitars, sells converted guitars ([[Kite guitar|41edo skip-fretting]] only).
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://www.RonSword.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]]


==Additional Links of Interest==  
=== Fretlets ===
[[http://www.ninestring.org/|www.ninestring.org]] - A specifically microtonal Guitar Forum
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.
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
 
LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
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.
a guitar in 10-tET - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
 
a guitar in 16-tET - [[http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm]]
==== Services ====
a guitar in 17-tET (Charles Loli) - [[http://microtonalismo.com/|http://microtonalismo.com]]
* [http://www.chouard.de/ Hervé Chouard] - produces guitars with adjustable frets
a bass in 23-tET (Tutim Deft) - [[http://ambikus.blogspot.com/]]
* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] - [https://www.microtonalguitar.org/ Adjustable Microtonal Guitar]
Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [[http://TheorieMusicale.com|TheorieMusicale.com]]
* [https://fretlet.com/ Fretlet] - produces fretlets of lengths 1 to 6
a recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
* [https://salamuzik.com/products/fretlet-microtonal-guitar-fret-flf-10 Sala Muzik] - procudes fretlets of length 1
a fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/</pre></div>
 
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=== Quick n Dirty ===
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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]''!
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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 ===
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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
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[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)''
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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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&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:31 --&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;
=== The Kite Guitar ===
&lt;br /&gt;
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 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:135: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:135 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Tritare ===
&lt;br /&gt;
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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John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:136: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:136 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
== List of microtonal guitarists ==
Buzz Kimball on the same - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:137: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:137 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:138: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:138 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[David Beardsley]] (NYC)
Sword guitars - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:139:http://www.swordguitars.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.swordguitars.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:139 --&gt; - offers microtonal guitar work&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jon Catler]] (NYC)
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* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] (Turkey)
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* [[Paul Erlich]] (Boston)
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* [[Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale]] (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
John Carruthers - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:140: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:140 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
Paul Guy - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:141: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:141 --&gt; - curved frets in &amp;quot;true&amp;quot; 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone&lt;br /&gt;
* John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:142: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:142 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Neil Haverstick]] (Denver)
Ron Sword - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:143:http://www.swordguitars.com --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.swordguitars.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:143 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me
&lt;br /&gt;
* Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
&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;
* [[Sten Hostfalt]] (NYC)
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;
* [[Jurica Jelić]] (Croatia)
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.swordguitars.com/Removable_fretboard_guitar_byRSword.jpg" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sword Guitars Gallery&lt;/a&gt; offers removable fretboard guitars as well.&lt;br /&gt;
* Marc Jones (NYC)
&lt;br /&gt;
* Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.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;
* Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com]
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;
* [[Charles Lucy]] (London)
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:144: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:144 --&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]
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;
* Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html
&lt;br /&gt;
* Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
&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;
* [[Rod Poole]] (LA) (d.2007)
Main article: &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Moving%20the%20bridge%20hack"&gt;Moving the bridge hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Nadaka (India) - http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html
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;
* Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [https://guitarerivesud.com Guitare Rive Sud website]
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;
* [[Jean-Pierre Poulin]] (France)
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dante Rosati]] (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h3 id="toc7"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources--The Tritare"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tritare.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Tritare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
* Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
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;
* James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger
&lt;br /&gt;
* John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h2 id="toc8"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources-List of Microtonal Guitarists"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 --&gt;List of Microtonal Guitarists&lt;/h2&gt;
* Drew Skyfire???
Seth Austen (New England) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:145: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:145 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Ron Sword]] (USA)
David Beardsley (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:146: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:146 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html
Jon Catler (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:147: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:147 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html
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;
* Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html
Paul Erlich (Boston) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:148: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:148 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Chris Vaisvil]] (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer
David 'Fuze&amp;quot; Fiuczynski (Boston?) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:149: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:149 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Michael 'Atonal' Vick]]
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:150: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:150 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php
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;
* [[Bostjan Zupancic]] (Vermont) mostly 19-EDO - https://sites.google.com/site/bostjanzupancickhereb/home/bostjan/microtones https://sites.google.com/site/bzmmtuning/
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:151: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:151 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
== Forums ==
Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:152: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:152 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/ www.microtonalguitarist.com] - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:153: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:153 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:154: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:154 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
== See also ==
Marc Jones (NYC)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]]
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:155: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:155 --&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;
== Additional Links of Interest ==
Charles Lucy (London) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:156: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:156 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
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;
* LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:157: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:157 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
Chris Morda (Seattle) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:158: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:158 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm
Chris Mosley (Portland) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:159: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:159 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com]
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:160: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:160 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[:purdal:Icositría|Ksenthings]]
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;
* Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com]
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;
* A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
Dante Rosati (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:161: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:161 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:162: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:162 --&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
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:163: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:163 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:164: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:164 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Drew Skyfire???&lt;br /&gt;
Ron Sword (USA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:165:http://www.RonSword.com --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.RonSword.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.RonSword.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:165 --&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;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h2 id="toc9"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources-Additional Links of Interest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 --&gt;Additional Links of Interest&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.ninestring.org/" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.ninestring.org&lt;/a&gt; - A specifically microtonal Guitar Forum&lt;br /&gt;
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:166: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:166 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
LucyTuning a guitar - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:167:http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:167 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a guitar in 10-tET - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:168:http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:168 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a guitar in 16-tET - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a guitar in 17-tET (Charles Loli) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://microtonalismo.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://microtonalismo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a bass in 23-tET (Tutim Deft) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://ambikus.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://ambikus.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Theorie de la musique (French Site) - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://TheorieMusicale.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;TheorieMusicale.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:169:http://www.microtonalguitar.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.microtonalguitar.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.microtonalguitar.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:169 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
a fretless guitar festival in New York - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:170:http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/ --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:170 --&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>

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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.

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.

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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

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