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If you are a [[guitar]]ist (or a player of some other fretted string instrument, like a bass guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, [[ukulele]], banjo, mandolin, sitar, saz, pipa, or zhong ruan), an EDO will provide you with the simplest possible fretboard layout, as all of the frets will go straight across the fretboard, regardless of how you want to tune the open strings. | If you are a [[guitar]]ist (or a player of some other fretted string instrument, like a bass guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, [[ukulele]], banjo, mandolin, sitar, saz, pipa, or zhong ruan), an EDO will provide you with the simplest possible fretboard layout, as all of the frets will go straight across the fretboard, regardless of how you want to tune the open strings. | ||
Fret crowding can become an issue with smaller divisions, especially high up the neck. | Fret crowding can become an issue with smaller divisions, especially high up the neck. | ||
For these cases, [[ed4|equal divisions of the double octave]] or higher multiples offer a compromise solution. | For these cases, [[ed4|equal divisions of the double octave]] or higher multiples offer a compromise solution, for example the [[Kite Guitar]] with frets at every other step of [[41edo]]. | ||
== Approaches to exploring EDOs == | == Approaches to exploring EDOs == | ||