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Freenote Guitars

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:12:52 +0000

Freenote guitars and necks are designed by Jon Catler and come in a number of different varieties. Fretless, 12 Tone Plus & Ultra Plus, and 19 Tone Equal Temperament are currently in production.

True Temperament Guitars

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:09:55 +0000

With a revolutionary new approach to the design of the guitar’s fretboard True Temperament delivers
an accuracy of fret scaling never before achieved in thehistory of the guitar.
Genuine innovation, and a radical new fretting technique, make it possible
to accurately implement any target temperament on the guitar, while retaining
full playability.

Lehtela Guitar Craft

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:08:10 +0000

The SITARI, a unique, one-of-a-kind instrument combining elements of sitar, guitar and some of the fretless instruments of the East. Ari Lehtela has taken the ‘hybrid’ concept to the next level with an entire family of new hybrid instruments. The family consists of five instruments that combine elements of string instruments of the East and the West. These instruments should be of particular interest to guitarists as they are ergonomically designed to be played in a conventional guitar position (sitting or standing).

Godin Glissentar

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:06:02 +0000

In a nutshell, it’s an eleven string, fretless, acoustic/electric instrument, strung with nylon strings and tuned to standard guitar tuning. More than ever before, musicians are mixing sounds and musical styles from all over the world. This often involves the mixing of Eastern and Western music, such as using a Sitar in a western musical setting or using western instruments to imitate the sounds in eastern music.

Fernandez/Fretless Guitar.com

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:03:59 +0000

Fretless instruments derive their unique sound from the fingers engaging the strings directly against a fingerboard made of wood, glass, metal, or plastic. The fingerboard material contributes substantially to the tonal properties of the sound. Fretless Guitar is a close relative to slide guitar in many ways, with the fingertips taking the place of the slide.

Guitarists

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Daaniel C. Araujo-Based out of Recife, Brazil, creates soundscapes with guitar, electronic instruments, and analogue circuits.

Didier ASCHOUR-French Guitarist

Tom Baker-Tom plays microtonal music on fretless guitar.

David Beardsley- While playing microtonal Just Intonation guitar and steel guitar, David creates droning ambient soundscapes.

Mohan Bhatt-Hindustani lap slide player from North India.

Debashish Bhattacharya-Hindustani lap slide player from North India.

David Canright-A Guitarist and Author from Monterrey, CA.

Jon Catler-Jon is a pioneer of microtonal guitar and plays many styles of music on his own microtonal guitar systems.

Joe Conley-Boston based player who does some microtonal guitar stuff.

SABAT-GARIBALDI Eduardo-inventor of the Dinarra, a 53-guitar, i.e. a guitar with 53 frets in the Octave

Jack Endino-A very informative article on guitar tuning by Jack who produced and recorded a lot of the “grunge” bands out of Seattle (where the web-master lives).

Jonathan Glasier-Professor of Music and Guitarist

John Gzowski-Modern composer plays and builds a number of Microtonal Guitars

Cameron Hatami-Based out of New York Cameron plays a “Microtonal Persian Guitar”

Neil Haverstick-Neil plays in 19 and 34 tone equal temperament as well as fretless guitar.

Sten Hostfalt-Another New York City based microtonal guitarist.

Wim Hoogewerf-Wim is a classical and contemperory guitarist from Europe.

Tommi Ilmosen-

Brij Bhushan Kabra-Hindustani lap slide player from North India.

Buzz Kimball-Buzz runs Novosonic productions. He’s a microtonal instrument builder and musician and has a bunch of pics of interesting looking guitars on his site, and some music as well.

Chris Mosley-Mosley is a Portland, Oregon based fretless guitar player.

Matthew Montfort-leader of the world fusion music ensemble Ancient Future, Matt plays a scalloped fretboard Guitar

Nadaka-Plays contemporary music on a scalloped Indian Neck Fretboard

Erkan Ogur-Turkish guitarist

Duane Pitre-a Brooklyn-based composer, improviser, and sound-artist

Rod Poole-Rod’s one of the early innovator’s of microtonal guitar.

Edward Powell-Edward plays Middle eastern, Indian and a fusion of the these with blues and other influences on his self built fretless guitars (as well as more traditional instruments).

Dante Rosati-Dante is a New York City based guitarist and instructor with a very informative site with some articles on Harmonic Theory, his guitars, and some great music.

Paul Rubenstein-Paul’s been playing microtonal guitar since 1992, when he first made an electric guitar with movable frets. Since then, he’s made a number of guitars with different equal tempered scales: 10 tone equal temperament (tet), 13 tet, 14 tet and 15 tet.

John Schneider-John is another one of the early innovators of microtonal guitar. His recordings done on the “interchangeable” fingerboards, and his early 90’s article on Just Intonation and Guitar in Accoustic Guitar magazine were my introductions to this topic.

Seal of Graphiel-Microtonal Black Metal

Roberto de Vittorio-Plays an instrument of 20 strings tuned by quarter tones

Eric Zidovec-Pennsylvania Jazz player performs with the 12 Tone Ultra Plus Guitar