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A 29-edo guitar is not much easier to play than a 31-edo guitar. In particular you'll need to use your fingernail to fret the highest notes. A skip-fretting system is substantially more confusing than one that includes every note. While 58-edo is more faithful to the harmonic series, 31-edo is nonetheless exceptionally good. | A 29-edo guitar is not much easier to play than a 31-edo guitar. In particular you'll need to use your fingernail to fret the highest notes. A skip-fretting system is substantially more confusing than one that includes every note. While 58-edo is more faithful to the harmonic series, 31-edo is nonetheless exceptionally good. | ||
== Comparison to the Kite tuning == | |||
The [[Kite Guitar]] uses 20.5 frets per octave to make a 41-edo instrument, and its frets are wide enough to be quite playable. If a standard guitar's scale length is 25", then an instrument using the 15\58 x 2\58 tuning described in this article would have a minimum fret width equal to the Kite Guitar's if it had a scale length of 25" * 29 / 20.5 = 35.4 inches. That is, while a 29-edo guitar might be difficult to play, a long-scale tapping instrument in 29-edo would be as playable as a Kite Guitar. (The most well-known tapping instrument, the Chapman Stick, has a scale length of 36".) | |||
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