Skip fretting: Difference between revisions

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= Introduction =

Skip fretting allows a player of a fretted stringed instrument to play in a higher EDO than would be possible ~~if all the frets were included~~. In ~~the simplest~~ skip-fretting systems, the guitar skips every other fret.

Skip fretting (a.k.a. Thanos tuning) allows a player of a fretted stringed instrument to play in a higher EDO than would otherwise be possible or convenient. In most skip-fretting systems, the guitar skips every other fret, so each string has only half of the notes.

The ~~simplest example allows~~ someone with an ordinary 12-edo guitar to tune to 24-edo, for instance by tuning 450 cents between every pair of adjacent strings. The even strings ~~will in this case~~ have half the notes, and the odd strings ~~will~~ 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.

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.

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 = Introduction =
-Skip fretting allows a player of a fretted stringed instrument to play in a higher EDO than would be possible if all the frets were included. In the simplest skip-fretting systems, the guitar skips every other fret.
+Skip fretting (a.k.a. Thanos tuning) allows a player of a fretted stringed instrument to play in a higher EDO than would otherwise be possible or convenient. In most skip-fretting systems, the guitar skips every other fret, so each string has only half of the notes.
-The simplest example allows someone with an ordinary 12-edo guitar to tune to 24-edo, for instance by tuning 450 cents between every pair of adjacent strings. The even strings will in this case have half the notes, and the odd strings will 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.
 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.