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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.

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. ~~However,~~ the [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/The%20Kite%20Tuning.pdf Kite Tuning] ~~combines the tuning accuracy~~ of 41-edo ~~with~~ the ~~playability~~ of 22-edo.

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 [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. The Kite Tuning makes 41-edo about as playable as 19-edo or 22-edo, although there are certain trade-offs.

[[File:The Kite Tuning smaller.jpg|none|thumb|600x600px|Five Kite guitars]]

===Go Fretless!===

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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.
-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. However, the [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/The%20Kite%20Tuning.pdf Kite Tuning] combines the tuning accuracy of 41-edo with the playability of 22-edo.
+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 [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. The Kite Tuning makes 41-edo about as playable as 19-edo or 22-edo, although there are certain trade-offs.
+[[File:The Kite Tuning smaller.jpg|none|thumb|600x600px|Five Kite guitars]]
 ===Go Fretless!===