Revision as of 17:34, 22 November 2020

Information on how to get musical instruments to play music in a variety of tunings.

Strings
- fretted: guitars, bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, balalaika, viol, sitar, etc.
- (unfretted) violin etc., oud, qanun, fretless bass, harps, zithers, hammer dulcimers, dan bau
- autoharp
- moodswinger
- Home Made Canon
- pedal steel
- Cable Tie Frets - instruction and examples on using cable ties as frets on a defretted guitar
Brass:
- Trumpet, Horn, Trombone (duh!), Tuba, digeridoo, alphorn
- bwhisperer.com JI-oriented website, "The Brass Whisperer's main aim is to play with subtle music tunings and coax brass players (and other musicians) into achieving delicious harmonies."
Woodwinds
- Reedless Instruments: Flutes, Recorders, Whistles
- Reed Instruments: Bassoons, Clarinets, Saxophones, Oboes
Percussion
- mallet keyboards: vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales, lithophone, etc.
- tuned drums: timpani, rototoms, pat waing
- bells: carillon, conic bellophone, tubulong, amglocken, handbells, zoomoozophone, sound tower/sound cube
- lamellophones: kalimba (mbira), marimbula
- friction idiophones: musical saw, wine glasses, nail violin, Daxophone
Keyboards: Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, Clavichord, but also Synthesizers
Free Reeds:
- Harmonica
- Reed Organs, Accordion, Melodica, Khaen, etc.
Others: udderbot, tubulong, balloon flute
Web browser based: ReTuner
Software, DAWs, plugins

Tuning-agnostic instruments

These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:

- Fretless bass
- Fretless guitar
- Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)
- Oud
String instruments with one pitch per string
- Hammered dulcimer
Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control
- Trombone
- Udderbot
Musical saw
Theremin
Daxophone

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 These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:
-<ul><li>Fretless string instruments
+* Fretless string instruments
-<ul><li>Fretless bass</li><li>Fretless guitar</li><li>Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)</li><li>Oud</li></ul></li><li>String instruments with one pitch per string<ul><li>Hammered dulcimer</li></ul></li><li>Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control<ul><li>Trombone</li><li>Udderbot</li></ul></li><li>Musical saw</li><li>Theremin</li><li>[[Daxophone|Daxophone]]</li></ul>      [[Category:instruments]]
+** Fretless bass
-[[Category:practice]]
+** Fretless guitar
-[[Category:todo:expand]]
+** Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)
-[[Category:tools]]
+** Oud
+* String instruments with one pitch per string
+** Hammered dulcimer
+* Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control
+** Trombone
+** [[Udderbot]]
+* Musical saw
+* Theremin
+* [[Daxophone]]
+[[Category:Instruments]]
+[[Category:Practice]]
+[[Category:Todo:expand]]
+[[Category:Tools]]