Skip fretting: Difference between revisions

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=== 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. A handful of kite guitars have been manufactured that feature partial skip fretting. One fairly common scheme for this on at the (41,2,13) Kite layout is to add a fret at the 1.5, 3.5, and 4.5 fret positions. These frets are alphabetically labeled according to a scheme that names 0.5 frets (1 step) the "a" fret, 1.5 frets (3 steps) the "b" fret, and so on such. These frets have the most utility on the lowest string, as it contains the fewest pitch redundancies and in the bottom end of the range simply omits a certain number of unavailable pitches. However, they also facilitate new fingerings of chords that may be more convenient on the nutward side of the neck.

== (edo, divisor, gap) notation ==

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 === 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. A handful of kite guitars have been manufactured that feature partial skip fretting. One fairly common scheme for this on at the (41,2,13) Kite layout is to add a fret at the 1.5, 3.5, and 4.5 fret positions. These frets are alphabetically labeled according to a scheme that names 0.5 frets (1 step) the "a" fret, 1.5 frets (3 steps) the "b" fret, and so on such. These frets have the most utility on the lowest string, as it contains the fewest pitch redundancies and in the bottom end of the range simply omits a certain number of unavailable pitches. However, they also facilitate new fingerings of chords that may be more convenient on the nutward side of the neck.
 == (edo, divisor, gap) notation ==