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The most familiar skip-fretting systems allow someone with an ordinary 12-edo guitar to tune to 24-edo by retuning their guitar, for instance by tuning 450 cents between every pair of adjacent strings. 350 cents, 550 cents etc. would all work too. The even strings have half the notes, and the odd strings have the other half. | The most familiar skip-fretting systems allow someone with an ordinary 12-edo guitar to tune to 24-edo by retuning their guitar, for instance by tuning 450 cents between every pair of adjacent strings. 350 cents, 550 cents etc. would all work too. The even strings have half the notes, and the odd strings have the other half. | ||
== Partial skip-fretting == | |||
Because the frets on a fretted instrument get closer together toward the bridge - at the first octave they are twice as dense, and at the second octave, four times -- it could be reasonable to include all the frets near the nut, and then switch to a skip-fretting system somewhere for the high notes. To this author's knowledge a partially skip-fretted instrument has not yet been made. | Because the frets on a fretted instrument get closer together toward the bridge - at the first octave they are twice as dense, and at the second octave, four times -- it could be reasonable to include all the frets near the nut, and then switch to a skip-fretting system somewhere for the high notes. To this author's knowledge a partially skip-fretted instrument has not yet been made. | ||