Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think: Difference between revisions

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolgahan_87o9Fulu Tolgahan 'oÄŸulu] makes his own microtonal nylon string acoustic guitars, but they're too expensive to produce for others yet. Though he's working on it. [https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tolgahan_Cogulu-150dpi.jpg][[undefined|link=]][[:File:Tolgahan Cogulu-150dpi-450x300.jpg|[[Image:Tolgahan_Cogulu-150dpi-450x300.jpg|link=|300x300px]]]] But if you play electric guitar, Ron Sword has a small company in in Florida, USA called ''Metatonal Music''. There he [http://metatonalmusic.com/gallery.html makes and sells microtonal guitars]. They're largely stock guitars with his microtonal frets added. [https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/blackwhitestrats.jpg][[undefined|link=]][[:File:Blackwhitestrats-437x350.jpg|[[Image:blackwhitestrats-437x350.jpg|link=|300x300px]]]] [https://biptunia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ron-s-coronado-guitar.jpg][[undefined|link=]][[:File:Ron-s-coronado-guitar-450x194.jpg|[[Image:ron-s-coronado-guitar-450x194.jpg|link=|300x300px]]]] You can try making one yourself, but you better be damn good at math, and a good luthier to boot. Because it's not as easy as it sounds. Though if you do try it yourself, [http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/ here's a site for calculating fret spacing for different scales]. The site can import scala files too. His wares work correctly tuned out of the box. Though once you play it a bit, you'll want to get some<span class="_5yl5"> fret leveling work and general setup done by a good local guitar tech. Many music stores have one, or can recommend a good one. Use a good one. A lot of people claim to be able to do this work, but not everyone who claims can actually do it. </span> Ron also offers [http://metatonalmusic.com/Necks.html microtonal bolt-on necks], and also [http://metatonalmusic.com/Conversiongallery.html will re-fret your cherished guitar to convert it to microtonal]. Keep in mind, you'd need a different guitar (or neck) for each microtonal system. If you wanted to have 5000 microtonal tuning systems available to change at a whim like you can have with my free VSTs, you'd need 5000 guitars. Or at least 5000 necks, and a few roadies to quickly bolt them on and off, without stripping the threads. But some people just love guitar more than keyboards, and there is something insanely cool about playing a microtonal guitar. It's somehow feels like you're traversing the past and the future at the same time. Ron Sword does good, if quick 'n' dirty work to provide the electric guitars used by many microtonal bands that have guitars. The list includes Noah from Jock Tears, plus the wonderful Mercury Tree & Cryptic Ruse. (Mercury Tree & Cryptic Ruse are two separate groups, but they did some [https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/album/cryptic-tree stellar collaborations that you can listen to here].) Ron also has [http://www.metatonalmusic.com/24Scales.html# microtonal scale charts] for his guitars on his site, to help you figure out what the heck to do with these things. If you want to spend more money and get higher quality microtonal guitars, [http://www.shuriyaguitarcraft.com/index.html Eiichi Ishikawa] in Vancouver, Canada makes good microtonal guitars. He's been making guitars (not just microtonal) longer than Ron's been alive. lol. Eiichi does work on Angus Young from AC-DC's (non-microtonal) guitars. Spencer Hargreaves from Jock Tears uses microtonal guitars from Eiichi Ishikawa, and loves them. Spencer has also played Ron's guitars and says they're great.