Microtonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu

Anyone who is interested in going down the beyond-12-equal-temperment rabbit hole: - xeharmonic wiki: [link] - xenharmonic playlist: [link] - Tolgahan Çoğulu and his awesome microtonal guitar creations: ▶ this video Some bands with more "approachable" sounds (vs the xenharmonic playlist, which gets spicy) known for microtonal work: Psychedelic rock: - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (namely albums Flying Microtonal Banana, KG, LW) - Altin Gün - Gaye su Akyol Classic blues rock (Led Zeppelin and the like, but also OG blues like Robert Johnson, that's another rabbit hole) also has a surprising amount of off-12Tet notes, because of the blues scale In the electronic realm, Aphex Twin does some interesting stuff with microtones - Jacob Collier - musical prodigy, mostly a capella/vocal arranging, but is a genre polymath, does some incredible stuff with just harmony If anyone has anything to add, please do! I can't get enough of this stuff

in “Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?” · View on HN

> "But don't hold your breath for oriental tuning. I don't see any reason why that would ever catch on. ick." I can understand your personal preference. That said, I think the ear is more adaptable than you might think, I've found myself enjoying music that employs microtones. To give one example, here's some Turkish music played on microtonal guitar: ▶ this video

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That sounds like a cool instrument, would be interested in hearing what it sounds like, do you have any clips of you playing it? I like the idea of a guitar that can easily reach lower registers. Whilst 7-string (and in Charlie Hunter's case, 8-string) guitars are possibly more versatile, I'm quite partial to baritone guitars. This sounds beautiful to me: [link] Talking of unconventional instruments, you may be interested in hearing these microtonal guitars, I think the second one in particular sounds pretty good: ▶ this video

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Except for voice [0], any fretless stringed instrument [1], any fretted string instrument with separate frets for sharps and flats [2], keyboard instruments that allow expression [3], keyboard instruments with split flat/sharp keys [4], and electronic instruments that allow unorthodox tunings without huge hassle [5]... I'm sure I'm missing some, but other than that you're totally right ;) [0] [link] , [link] [1] [link] [2] ▶ this video [3] [link] [4] [link] [5] [link]

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