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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


Practice with refretted guitars:
==== Music ====
[[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]]
; [[Claire Rose]]
* ''Microtones by Lamplight'' (2026) (with synthesizer backing track)
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J92kl2QU_Ng ''Guitar Study 1'']
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5LALnViKI ''Guitar Study 2'']


===Get a new neck!===  
=== Refretting ===
John Carruthers - http://www.carruthersguitars.com/
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.
Paul Guy - http://www.truetemperament.com/ - curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - http://www.brunner-guitars.com/
Ron Sword - [[http://www.metatonalmusic.com|http://www.MetatonalMusic.com]] - Custom, Just Intonation &amp; Removable fretboard systems


===Interchangeable Fretboards===  
==== Articles (DIY) ====
Mark Rankin makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards: [[mailto:Mark%20Rankin%2095511@yahoo.com|Mark Rankin 95511@yahoo.com]] (remove spaces)
* David Canright, [http://web.archive.org/web/20151003124231/http://home.comcast.net/~dcanright/guitar/ "A Justly-Tuned Guitar"] (archived)
[[http://www.metatonalmusic.com|Sword Guitars Gallery]] offers removable fretboard guitars as well.
* Buzz Kimball, [http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html "Retrofretting for non-twelve scales"]
* Dante Rosati, [http://danterosati.com/justguitar1.html "Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar"]
* John Starrett, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120429121049/http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jstarret/guitar.html "Microtonal Guitar Conversion FAQ"] (archived)


===Adjustable Frets===  
==== Videos (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.
* [[Levi McClain]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRtvBjAwiY "Microtonal Frets Change Everything!"] (2025)
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: http://www.chouard.de/
For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]] [[http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar]]


===Quick n Dirty===  
==== Tools (DIY) ====
Main article: [[Moving the bridge hack]]
* [https://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/ FretFind2D], a design tool for custom fretboards
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]]//!
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20170302090038/http://windworld.com/features/tools-resources/ Experimental Musical Instruments – Tools & Resources] (archived)
Chris Vaisvil's [[http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=779|cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets]] - a great way to try new tunings.
* [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


===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.metatonalmusic.com/conversionservice.html Metatonal Music - Micro-Conversion Services] (USA) - by [[Ron Sword]], for equal temperaments, just intonation and nonoctave tunings
[[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.


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).
=== 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.


===[[http://www.tritare.com/|The Tritare]]===
==== Services ====
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]].
* [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).


==List of Microtonal Guitarists==  
=== Fretlets ===
Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
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.
David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/
Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm
Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [[http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/|http://www.tolgahancogulu.com]]
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==
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.
[[@http://www.microtonalguitarist.com/|www.microtonalguitarist.com]] - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar


==Additional Links of Interest==  
==== Services ====
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
* [http://www.chouard.de/ Hervé Chouard] - produces guitars with adjustable frets
LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] - [https://www.microtonalguitar.org/ Adjustable Microtonal Guitar]
A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
* [https://fretlet.com/ Fretlet] - produces fretlets of lengths 1 to 6
A Guitar in 16-EDO - [[http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm]]
* [https://salamuzik.com/products/fretlet-microtonal-guitar-fret-flf-10 Sala Muzik] - procudes fretlets of length 1
A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [[http://microtonalismo.com/|http://microtonalismo.com]]
 
A Bass in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[http://www.reverbnation.com/23tdw39|Magna 23]]
=== Quick n Dirty ===
Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [[http://TheorieMusicale.com|TheorieMusicale.com]]
{{Main|Moving the bridge hack}}
A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.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 fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/</pre></div>
 
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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.
<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;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;microguitar&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; --&gt;&lt;h1 id="toc0"&gt;&lt;a name="Microtonal guitar resources"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 --&gt;Microtonal guitar resources&lt;/h1&gt;
 
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=== Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings ===
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:25 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:26: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Go Fretless!"&gt;Go Fretless!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:26 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:27: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Refretting"&gt;Refretting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 
&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:27 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:28: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Get a new neck!"&gt;Get a new neck!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
[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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&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextTocRule:29 --&gt;&lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextTocRule:30: --&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;a href="#Microtonal guitar resources--Adjustable Frets"&gt;Adjustable Frets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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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=== 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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&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;
== List of microtonal guitarists ==
&lt;br /&gt;
* Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
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* [[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 &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:155: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:155 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jon Catler]] (NYC)
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tolgahan Çoğulu]] (Turkey)
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* [[Paul Erlich]] (Boston)
John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:156: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:156 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale]] (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
Buzz Kimball on the same - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:157: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:157 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:158: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:158 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html
Sword guitars - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:159: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:159 --&gt; - offers microtonal guitar work&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Neil Haverstick]] (Denver)
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* Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me
Practice with refretted guitars:&lt;br /&gt;
* Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
&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;
* [[Sten Hostfalt]] (NYC)
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* [[Jurica Jelić]] (Croatia)
&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;
* Marc Jones (NYC)
John Carruthers - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:160: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:160 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html
Paul Guy - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:161: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:161 --&gt; - curved frets in &amp;quot;true&amp;quot; 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone&lt;br /&gt;
* Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com]
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:162: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:162 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Charles Lucy]] (London)
Ron Sword - &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.metatonalmusic.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.MetatonalMusic.com&lt;/a&gt; - Custom, Just Intonation &amp;amp; Removable fretboard systems&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]
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* Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.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;
* Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
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;
* [[Rod Poole]] (LA) (d.2007)
&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.metatonalmusic.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sword Guitars Gallery&lt;/a&gt; offers removable fretboard guitars as well.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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]
&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;
* [[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 &amp;quot;Well-Tempered Guitar.&amp;quot; Wim Hoogewerf has one too.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dante Rosati]] (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:163: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:163 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
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;
* 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
&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;
* Drew Skyfire???
Main article: &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Moving%20the%20bridge%20hack"&gt;Moving the bridge hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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. &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;
* Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html
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;
* Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html
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* Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html
&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;
* [[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 &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;
* [[Michael 'Atonal' Vick]]
&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;
* 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 &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;
 
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== Forums ==
&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;
* [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 &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;
 
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== See also ==
&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;
* [[How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear]]
Seth Austen (New England) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:164: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:164 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
David Beardsley (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:165: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:165 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
== Further reading ==
Jon Catler (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:166: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:166 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* John Schneider, ''[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-guitar-9781442237902/ The contemporary guitar.]'' Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015.
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;
* Richard Perks and John McGrath, eds. ''[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/21st-century-guitar-9781501373305/ 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Paul Erlich (Boston) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:167: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:167 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Kenneth Cotich, ''[https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/764/ The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast]'', Doctoral dissertation, The Claremont Graduate University, 2024.
David 'Fuze&amp;quot; Fiuczynski (Boston?) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:168: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:168 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:169: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:169 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
== Additional Links of Interest ==
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;
* picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
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;
* LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:170: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:170 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A [[utonal]], [[just intonation]] guitar - https://youtu.be/dHLG5dAlfaA
Eric Hinds (Athens, GA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:171: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:171 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:172: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:172 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:173: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:173 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com]
Marc Jones (NYC)&lt;br /&gt;
* A Guitar in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - [[:purdal:Icositría|Ksenthings]]
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:174: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:174 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com]
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;
* A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
Charles Lucy (London) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:175: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:175 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/
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;
* A webpage about improving guitar intonation, 12-edo oriented but lots of good info: https://www.portlandguitar.com/pages/guitar-intonation
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:176: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:176 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
 
Chris Morda (Seattle) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:177: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:177 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Chris Mosley (Portland) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:178: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:178 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:179: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:179 --&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:180: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:180 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:181: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:181 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:182: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:182 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:183: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:183 --&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;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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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.

Websites

Music

Claire Rose

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)

Services

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.

Services

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.

Services

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

Further reading

Additional Links of Interest

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