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I made little stickers on my fretless bass for 13 notes/octave. It sounds okay, but surprisingly it sounds even cooler if I tune the strings to the microtonal intervals(which you need to do anyway) but play in the 12notes/octave positions. That is, instead of tuning by harmonics I tune the adjacent strings to the closest 13notes/octave pitch, then play as I would normally where the original frets are located. t On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > As I enjoyed David Beardley's video "Microtonal Guitar..." I stumbled > into this other video that I have seen and liked a lot in the past. It > is a guy with a guitar that has adjustable frets so he can adjust it > to any microtonal scale and the point is that he explains about > microtonal scales in a great way, gives a sort of excellent > introduction to the field. My own interest in micrtonality emerged out > of frustration with the guitar and as I picked up wind isntruments on > the side I noticed that when not held back by the rigid mechanics of > frets you tend to intonate certain notes in a scale differently - and > "better" as you do it according to your own taste rather than the > instrument's limitations. Now, when the guy in this video talks about > just intonation and pure intervals he is spot on topic from a live > looping point of view. This is because when we kick in Half Speed, > Double Speed or any speed or pitch shifting it is a pure a > mathematical transformation. Looping devices doesn't compensate by > sometimes delivering a little twisted fifths in order to make thirds > sound fuller. I remember Henry Kaiser talked about this at YK7, using > a delay device with squarewave modulated frequency, and now I've heard > he has gotten a guitar with a True Temperament fretting set up to > match this. Neat! BTW the global microtonal library in Logic is why I > like using an EWI with those synths. And there's a lot of fun in > fiddling with microtonal scales by ear. Metasynth supports it in a > powerful way, if you are inclined towards electronic composition and > Alchemy is has a cool live player's interface that include micro > scales as well as a good arpeggioator. > > Anyway, here's the URL to the video: > http://youtu.be/yhdpsuXtewY > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > www.looproom.com internet music hub >