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== The Kite Guitar ==

This is a brief explanation, there's a longer explanation at [[Intro to the Kite Guitar for non-microtonalists]].

The Kite guitar (or bass, mandolin, banjo, etc.) combines the beauty of just intonation with the freedom of an equal temperament. It has 41 notes per the octave instead of 12. [[41edo|41-tET or 41-edo]] approximates 7-limit just intonation to within 3-6¢, and chords sound gorgeous! But a guitar with 41 frets per octave is impractical. The Kite guitar cleverly omits every other fret. Thus while the frets are closer together than a standard guitar, they're not so close as to be unplayable. The interval between open strings is 13 steps of 41. 13 is an odd number, thus all 41 pitches are present on the guitar. Each string has only half of the pitches, but any adjacent pair of strings has all 41.

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[[File:Jim Snow's 7-string Ibanez small.jpg|480x480px]]

There are about fifteen Kite guitars in existence. See [[~~Kite_Guitar_Photographs~~]].

There are about fifteen Kite guitars in existence. See [[Kite Guitar Photographs]].

=== Recordings ===

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 == The Kite Guitar ==
+This is a brief explanation, there's a longer explanation at [[Intro to the Kite Guitar for non-microtonalists]].
 The Kite guitar (or bass, mandolin, banjo, etc.) combines the beauty of just intonation with the freedom of an equal temperament. It has 41 notes per the octave instead of 12. [[41edo|41-tET or 41-edo]] approximates 7-limit just intonation to within 3-6¢, and chords sound gorgeous! But a guitar with 41 frets per octave is impractical. The Kite guitar cleverly omits every other fret. Thus while the frets are closer together than a standard guitar, they're not so close as to be unplayable. The interval between open strings is 13 steps of 41. 13 is an odd number, thus all 41 pitches are present on the guitar. Each string has only half of the pitches, but any adjacent pair of strings has all 41.
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 [[File:Jim Snow's 7-string Ibanez small.jpg|480x480px]]
-There are about fifteen Kite guitars in existence. See [[Kite_Guitar_Photographs]].
+There are about fifteen Kite guitars in existence. See [[Kite Guitar Photographs]].
 === Recordings ===