Tolgahan Cogulu demonstrates a fixed-fret microtonal guitar, playing music that uses notes between the usual twelve semitones. The channel is dedicated to his microtonal guitar designs.
Why Hacker News points people here: Linked in music theory and tuning threads as a listenable example of microtonal guitar that sounds good.
“Tolgahan Çoğulu and his awesome microtonal guitar creations”HN comment, 2022
“I think the second one in particular sounds pretty good”
Microtonal guitars that sound good.
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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
RecommendsZenoArrowAug 2016
“here's some Turkish music played on microtonal guitar”
Turkish music played on microtonal guitar.
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> "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
RecommendskortexAug 2022
“Tolgahan Çoğulu and his awesome microtonal guitar creations”
Microtonal guitar creations to explore beyond 12-tone equal temperament.
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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
Cites itrdlwFeb 2022
Example of fretted instrument with separate sharp and flat frets.
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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
