Skip fretting system 34 2 9
One way to play 34-edo on a 17-edo guitar is to tune each pair of adjacent strings 9\34 apart. That's 317.6 cents, just 2 cents sharp of a just 6:5.
Among the possible skip fretting systems for 34-edo, the (34,2,9) system is especially convenient in that every 11-limit interval spans at most 2 frets, and if you exclude intervals involving the 17th and 19th harmonic, every 31-limit interval spans at most six frets. If you include 17 and 19, the range rises to eight frets. (Note that 8 frets on a 17-edo guitar is a big stretch, equivalent to 5.67 frets on a 12-edo guitar.) Since it makes playing music composed using keemun temperament particularly easy, it could also be called a Keemun or Kleismic guitar.
Where the first primes intervals lie
As a diagram
In the following the strings are vertical and the frets are horizontal. 1 represents octave equivalents of the root, 3 represents octave equivalents of the 3rd harmonic (3:2, 3:1, 3:4, etc.), etc.
headstock on this side - 15 9 - 13 - 13 - 19 - - - - - - - - 17 - 17 - - - - - - - - - - bass - - 11 - 1 - treble side 1 - 23 7 - 5 side - 5 3 - - 21 - 21 - 15 9 - 9 - 13 - 19 - 19 - - - - - bridge on this side
As a table
note | fretboard position |
---|---|
0 steps = 1 % 1 | string 0 fret 0 |
34 steps = 2 % 1 | string 4 fret - 1 |
20 steps = 3 % 2 | string 2 fret 1 |
11 steps = 5 % 4 | string 1 fret 1 |
27 steps = 7 % 4 | string 3 fret 0 |
16 steps = 11 % 8 | string 2 fret - 1 |
24 steps = 13 % 8 | string 2 fret 3 |
3 steps = 17 % 16 | string - 1 fret 6 |
8 steps = 19 % 16 | string 0 fret 4 |
18 steps = 23 % 16 | string 2 fret 0 |
29 steps = 29 % 16 | string 3 fret 1 |
32 steps = 31 % 16 | string 4 fret - 2 |
From these, the location of most compound intervals can be added by vector-summing the string-fret positions of the interval's factors. See Skip fretting system 48 2 13 for details on how that's done.