micro guitars

It seems this thread has died down recently, but i am goin to post it
anyway.

A number of people expressed interest in microtonal and JI guitars and
removable fretboards. I would refer those people to the following:

Canright, David. "A Justly Tuned Guitar", 1/1 vol. 2 no. 2, 1986, pp.
8-11.

Darreg, Ivor. "New Tunes and New Chords (Something To Fret About)", Guitar
Player, February 1978.

Hanson, Larry. "A 34-equal guitar", Experimental Musical Instruments,
December
1993.

Rankin, Mark. "Microtonal Templates for Guitar", Pitch: For the
International
Microtonalist vol. 1 no. 4, 1990, pp. 128-129.

Rich, Robert. "Harmonic Scales for Guitar", 1/1 vol. 3 no. 1, 1987, pp.
13-15.

Wager-Schneider, John. "The Microtonal Guitar", Guitar & Lute vol. 16,
January
1981, pp. 42-45; vol. 17, April 1981, pp. 32-34; vol. 19, October 1981,
pp.
28-31, vol.
20, January 1982, pp. 20-22, vol. 21, March 1982, pp. 33-34.



Xenharmonikon:

Guitar Fretting Table 19-tone (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Volume 2

Guitar with Interchangeable Fingerboards
A. Peter Westbrook
Volume 6



Hope this is helpful. please feel free to email me privatly about your
progress in these areas.

-Jason Glover


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> And/or could anyone recomend a keyboard under $1000 that is
> micro-programmable and complies to the MIDI tuning-dump standard?

Steve (C), is the MR Rack under $1000?

Whether it is or not, it's almost certainly your best bet for a machine that
implements the MIDI tuning standard.


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>> And/or could anyone recomend a keyboard under $1000 that is
>> micro-programmable and complies to the MIDI tuning-dump standard?
>
> Steve (C), is the MR Rack under $1000?

the MR rack lists for more like $1600 and it's in a rack, not a keyboard
unfortunately. Try looking for a used EPS-16, they tend to go for
$7500-$1000. In fact if you're interested I know someone who's selling one.
They don't support MTS but are supported by JICalc for downloading tunings.
Likewise some inexpensive keyboards have scaling of keyboard-pitch
modulation- you can change this to get N equal tones per octave.

That Kawai probably does support temperaments- these assume an
octave-repeating tuning with a +-50 cents variation per note. Most
'tunable' samplers, even expensive ones, use this system. Ensoniq's
EPS/ASR, VFX/TS, KT and MR let you tune any key to any other MIDI note with
an offset.

> Whether it is or not, it's almost certainly your best bet for a machine that
>implements the MIDI tuning standard.

In terms of MTS the MR series is the only game in town. We're shipping the
keyboard with sequencer version and it should be in stores soon if anyone
want to check it out.

Steve Curtin
Ensoniq Corp


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