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Comment by dagmx

I’m surprised they don’t show true temperament frets.

https://strandbergguitars.com/en-WW/magazine/true-temperamen...

They solve exactly for this issue, and sound amazing in use. The downside is that you are somewhat locked into a given tuning.

Alternatively you can take the approach of guitars with movable frets so you can adjust them per tuning.

https://youtu.be/EZC69A8TsJ8?si=7hUIb7FEKb45eV_L

These are generally used for microtonal playing but can also effectively be true temperament as well.

Guitars with gut frets used to have adjustable positions, which allowed for some mitigation via changing fret positions too

parent dagmx 8 months ago

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