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===Brief History=== | ===Brief History=== | ||
The Kite guitar was | The first true Kite guitar was made in April 2019 by Kite Giedraitis by adjusting the frets on his cable-tie guitar. He was directly inspired by Matthew Autry's experiments with [[Skip-fretting|skip-frettings]]. Matthew explored large edos like 72 and 130, but had never explored 41. Kite's May 2019 paper announcing the invention: [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/The%20Kite%20Tuning.pdf The Kite Tuning] (16 page pdf). | ||
Kite' | Unbeknownst to Kite, Robin Perry had independently invented the Kite guitar in November 2011. He made a "Kite-like" prototype in 60edo (see [[Mathematical Basis For The Kite Guitar]]) with frets at 4\60, 7\60, 10\60, etc. It was a 7-string lute-like instrument tuned in 380¢ 3rds, or sometimes an open tuning. In 2012 he proposed a fretting of every other step of 41edo (3\41, 5\41, 7\41, etc.), and modified his prototype to roughly approximate it by moving the bridge. Thus he was the first to ''conceive'' of the Kite guitar, if not build one. He [https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/posts/476803395673301/ announced] his invention on facebook, but didn't pursue the matter, as he was not satisfied with the overall concept ([https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/posts/5850586341628286?comment_id=5850874458266141 source]). | ||
Others had come close to the Kite guitar, but either didn't use 41-edo, or had unequally spaced frets. See Graham Breed's [[Magic Guitar]] (2013) and Mason Green's [[Devadoot]] guitar (2016). | |||
===Other 41-equal Instruments=== | ===Other 41-equal Instruments=== | ||