A Revolutionary New Guitar Fretting
The Beauty of Extended Just Intonation
The freedom of an Equal Temperament
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The Kite Guitar has more frets
opening up new worlds of harmony and melody
Standard Guitar
12 notes per octave
Kite Guitar
0
notes per octave
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Every Chord
is the
SAME SHAPE,
no matter the string
no matter the key
(The Kite layout is isomorphic)
Standard
A Major
D Major
E Major
Kite
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The Kite Guitar can rock out!
The frets are only 59¢ apart, instead of the usual 100¢. This smaller step size creates exciting melodic possibilities.
Experiment with microtonality.
The Kite guitar is extremely versatile.
This original piece uses “septimal” just intonation to get a “subminor” sound.
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Keyboards can join in too!
Lumatone. Linnstrument. Launchpad
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Play in any key!
Even “in between” keys like C half-sharp.
Modulate to any key – the freedom of an equal temperament!
Events
Our weekly videochat session
open to the public
EVERY SUNDAY noon-2pm PST
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