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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. | 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. | |||
===Go Fretless!=== | ===Go Fretless!=== | ||
The most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer. Lots of resources out there -- you might start with | The most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer. Lots of resources out there -- you might start with http://www.unfretted.com/ | ||
===Refretting=== | ===Refretting=== | ||
John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - | John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html | ||
Buzz Kimball on the same - | Buzz Kimball on the same - http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html | ||
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - | Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - http://danterosati.com/justguitar.html | ||
Metatonal Music/Sword guitars - | Metatonal Music/Sword guitars - http://www.metatonalmusic.com/ - microtonal guitar conversions | ||
Practice with refretted guitars: | Practice with refretted guitars: | ||
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===Get a new neck!=== | ===Get a new neck!=== | ||
John Carruthers - | John Carruthers - http://www.carruthersguitars.com/ | ||
Paul Guy - | Paul Guy - http://www.truetemperament.com/ - curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone | ||
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - | Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - http://www.brunner-guitars.com/ | ||
Ron Sword - [http://www.metatonalmusic.com http://www.MetatonalMusic.com] - Strat and Ibanez necks | Ron Sword - [http://www.metatonalmusic.com http://www.MetatonalMusic.com] - Strat and Ibanez necks | ||
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A guitar with moveable frets that are split, and thus independent for each string, is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar." Wim Hoogewerf has one too. | A guitar with moveable frets that are split, and thus independent for each string, is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar." Wim Hoogewerf has one too. | ||
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: | Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: http://www.chouard.de/ | ||
For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": [http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/ http://www.tolgahancogulu.com] | For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": [http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/ http://www.tolgahancogulu.com] http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar | ||
===Quick n Dirty=== | ===Quick n Dirty=== | ||
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An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/27693 this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list] and | An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/27693 this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list] and | ||
[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/92968 this article on the Yahoo tuning list ] for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo. | [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/92968 this article on the Yahoo tuning list] for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo. | ||
A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on [http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html muzicforums.com] (also reachable from the above thread). | A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on [http://www.muzicforums.com/music-theory/53860-neutral-thirds-tuning-quartertones-conventionally-fretted-guitar.html muzicforums.com] (also reachable from the above thread). | ||
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==List of Microtonal Guitarists== | ==List of Microtonal Guitarists== | ||
Seth Austen (New England) - | Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/ | ||
David Beardsley (NYC) - | David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/ | ||
Jon Catler (NYC) - | Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm | ||
Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/ http://www.tolgahancogulu.com] | Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - [http://www.tolgahancogulu.com/ http://www.tolgahancogulu.com] | ||
Paul Erlich (Boston) - | Paul Erlich (Boston) - http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm | ||
David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - | David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/ | ||
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - | Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/ | ||
John Gzowski (Canada) - | John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html | ||
Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - | Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - http://www.juricajelic.org/ | ||
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - | Neil Haverstick (Denver) - http://www.microstick.net/ | ||
Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - | Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me | ||
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - | Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html | ||
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - | Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - http://www.stenhostfalt.com/ | ||
Marc Jones (NYC) | Marc Jones (NYC) | ||
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - | Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html | ||
Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com] | Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - [http://www.hardcoreguitar.com/ http://www.hardcoreguitar.com] | ||
Charles Lucy (London) - | Charles Lucy (London) - http://www.lucytune.com/ | ||
Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [http://GuitareRiveSud.com GuitareRiveSud.com] | Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - [http://GuitareRiveSud.com GuitareRiveSud.com] | ||
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - | Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788 | ||
Chris Morda (Seattle) - | Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html | ||
Chris Mosley (Portland) - | Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/ | ||
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - | Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm | ||
Nadaka (India) - | Nadaka (India) - http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html | ||
Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - | Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm | ||
Dante Rosati (NYC) - | Dante Rosati (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/ | ||
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - | Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/ | ||
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - | James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger | ||
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - | John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html | ||
Drew Skyfire??? | Drew Skyfire??? | ||
Ron Sword (USA) - | Ron Sword (USA) - http://therealronsword.blogspot.com | ||
Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - | Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html | ||
<span style="font-family: arial;">Anders Thidell (Sweden) - | <span style="font-family: arial;">Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html</span> | ||
Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - | Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html | ||
Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer [http://chrisvaisvil.com/ Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil] | Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer [http://chrisvaisvil.com/ Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil] | ||
Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - | Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php | ||
==Forums== | ==Forums== | ||
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==Additional Links of Interest== | ==Additional Links of Interest== | ||
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - | picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html | ||
LucyTuning a guitar - | LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html | ||
A Guitar in 10-EDO - | A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/ | ||
A Guitar in 16-EDO - | A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm | ||
A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com] | A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - [http://microtonalismo.com/ http://microtonalismo.com] | ||
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Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com] | Theorie de la musique (French Site) - [http://TheorieMusicale.com TheorieMusicale.com] | ||
A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - | A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/ | ||
A fretless guitar festival in New York - | A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/ | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 6 May 2019
Microtonal guitar resources
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 Kite Tuning combines the tuning accuracy of 41-edo with the playability of 22-edo.
Go Fretless!
The most direct way to get microtones, which leaves the most up to your ears. Tried by many, pursued with a dogged obsession with intonation by fewer. Lots of resources out there -- you might start with http://www.unfretted.com/
Refretting
John Starrett FAQ on do-it-yourself fretting - http://infohost.nmt.edu/%7Ejstarret/guitar.html
Buzz Kimball on the same - http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/retrofretting.html
Dante Rosati: Adventures in Just Intonation Guitar - http://danterosati.com/justguitar.html
Metatonal Music/Sword guitars - http://www.metatonalmusic.com/ - microtonal guitar conversions
Practice with refretted guitars:
How to tune a 19edo guitar by ear
Get a new neck!
John Carruthers - http://www.carruthersguitars.com/
Paul Guy - http://www.truetemperament.com/ - curved frets in "true" 12-tET, Bach/Lehman well-temperament, and meantone
Lukas Brunner produces a guitar with removable neck - http://www.brunner-guitars.com/
Ron Sword - http://www.MetatonalMusic.com - Strat and Ibanez necks
Interchangeable Fretboards
Mark Rankin makes magnetic interchangeable fretboards: Mark Rankin [email protected] (remove spaces)
Adjustable Frets
A guitar with moveable frets that are split, and thus independent for each string, is perhaps ideal for a musical environment in which the musical scale varies from piece to piece. John Schneider calls his a "Well-Tempered Guitar." Wim Hoogewerf has one too.
Hervé Chouard produces guitars with adjustable frets: http://www.chouard.de/
For the "Adjustable Microtonal Guitar": http://www.tolgahancogulu.com http://www.myspace.com/adjmicrotonalguitar
Quick n Dirty
Main article: Moving the bridge hack
One tack: take a trashy guitar and move the bridge to a different spot. You'll get a (not necessarily close to equal) division of the octave with ~10-15 notes. Dan Stearns has done this, and so has David Finnamore, and more recently Jason Conklin!
Chris Vaisvil's cheap, quick and dirty temporary guitar frets - a great way to try new tunings.
Even quicker (and maybe less dirty): open tunings
An even simpler idea, without a modification of the guitar being necessary, are open tunings. See this thread on the Yahoo MakeMicroMusic list and
this article on the Yahoo tuning list for some possibilities. This is especially suitable for supersets of 12edo.
A concrete description of an open guitar tuning for 24edo can be found on muzicforums.com (also reachable from the above thread).
The Tritare
The Tritare, developed by folks in New Brunswick, Canada, seems to be fretted to a normal 12, but because it features 3-string groups the sound is FM-like and inescapably xenharmonic. Or is it? See this Science News article.
List of Microtonal Guitarists
Seth Austen (New England) - http://www.sethausten.com/
David Beardsley (NYC) - http://www.biink.com/db/
Jon Catler (NYC) - http://www.microtones.com/bios_jc.htm
Tolgahan Çoğulu (Turkey) - http://www.tolgahancogulu.com
Paul Erlich (Boston) - http://www.stretch-music.com/paulerlich.htm
David 'Fuze" Fiuczynski (Boston?) - http://www.torsos.com/
Fabrizio Fulvio Fausto Fiale (Italy) - http://www.webalice.it/tetraf/
John Gzowski (Canada) - http://www.johngzowski.com/home.html
Jurica Jelic (Croatia) - http://www.juricajelic.org/
Neil Haverstick (Denver) - http://www.microstick.net/
Killick Hinds (Athens, GA) - http://www.killick.me
Wim Hoogewerf (France) - http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehuygensf/english/hoogewerf.html
Sten Hostfalt (NYC) - http://www.stenhostfalt.com/
Marc Jones (NYC)
Buzz Kimball (New Hampshire) - http://home.comcast.net/%7Egregmcleod/novosonic.html
Damian Law (Northampton, UK) - http://www.hardcoreguitar.com
Charles Lucy (London) - http://www.lucytune.com/
Philippe Poisson (Montreal, Quebec) - GuitareRiveSud.com
Pete McRae (Philadelphia, PA) - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=479788
Chris Morda (Seattle) - http://www.stonecrazybluesband.com/pages/bios/chris.html
Chris Mosley (Portland) - http://www.chrismosley.com/
Rod Poole (LA) (d.2007) - http://www.biink.com/poole/index.htm
Nadaka (India) - http://www.nadaka.com/french/raga-guitar.html
Jean-Pierre Poulin (France) - http://www.jeanpierrepoulin.com/Guitare.htm
Dante Rosati (NYC) - http://www.danterosati.com/
Paul Rubenstein (NYC) - http://www.ubertar.com/
James Sanger (Barneville-Carteret, France) - http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger
John Schneider (Los Angeles) - http://www.piercecollege.edu/departments/music/facultyStaffFiles/schneider.html
Drew Skyfire???
Ron Sword (USA) - http://therealronsword.blogspot.com
Onoue Torigoya (Japan) - http://torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html
Anders Thidell (Sweden) - http://www.furious.com/perfect/truetemperament.html
Siemen Terpstra (Nederland) - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/terpgit.html
Chris Vaisvil (Indianapolis) fretless, microtonal Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil
Roberto de Vittorio (Argentina) - http://www.ciweb.com.ar/RDV/microtonal_guitar.php
Forums
www.microtonalguitarist.com - A guitar forum specifically for microtonal guitar
Additional Links of Interest
picture gallery, Aaron Hunt - http://www.h-pi.com/eop-guitars.html
LucyTuning a guitar - http://www.lucytune.com/guitars_and_frets/frets.html
A Guitar in 10-EDO - http://albertorojo.com/DecaphonicGuitar/
A Guitar in 16-EDO - http://www.armodue.com/schedatecnica.htm
A Guitar in 17-EDO (Charles Loli) - http://microtonalismo.com
A Guitar in 23-EDO (Tútim Dennsuul) - Ksenthings
Theorie de la musique (French Site) - TheorieMusicale.com
A recent microtonal guitar festival in Seattle - http://www.microtonalguitar.com/
A fretless guitar festival in New York - http://www.fretlessguitarfestival.com/