DIY Carbon Fiber Fretless Guitar and Bohlen-Pierce Tuning

A niche hobbyist interest in composites, a super niche hobbyist interest in non-octave scale theories, and a very milquetoast hobbyist interest in electric guitars walk into a bar.

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Hey, I soothly like all tunes that thou playedst with the Bohlen-Pierce guitar!

[@FASTFASTmusic]

The funk riff around 12:10 is gnarly AF

[@MattWinkler1]

Hah it was a fun one to play!

[@StrategicGamesEtc]

So if I understand you correctly, each string is tuned 3\13edt (~r3; ~9/7) apart?

[@MattWinkler1]

If I understand you correctly, yes :) Each string is tuned to the 3rd fret of the previous string, which ends up being pretty close to the fifth fret on a normal guitar, because each fret is close to (12/13 or 13/12, I'm a little rusty) but not quite 1.5x the distance of a typical fret/semitone.

[@StrategicGamesEtc]

@@MattWinkler1 Alright, I'll assume we understand eachother, then. I've been interested in Xenharmonicity philisophically for a while now, but have not played guitar before, though I'm now considering getting one as guitar seems like one of the most flexible compromises to explore xenharonicity irl without dealing with highly opinionated software. The upshot of which is, "fifth fret" means nothing to me, but "7-limit major 3rd" does mean something to me, lol

[@kabukiman2153]

What if you wore like a banjo finger pick thing for the high end of the fretboard. Would the hardness and smaller surface area create a punchier attack?

[@SCWood]

Mildly Radioactive Sludge Farming Accident kinda sounds like King Gizzard if they had the balls to go non-octave. Can't wait to hear the garage rock piece!

[@MattWinkler1]

Hah thanks! I'm still very new to microtonal music but King Gizzard has definitely made it the most approachable and enjoyable so far to my ear!

[@MattWinkler1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpqUoKSIYpx0h5I Didn't quite get it done in 2021, but hey, it came out alright!

[@MattWinkler1]

@@matiasguajardoquintana770 What's the question?

[@MattWinkler1]

0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Defretting the neck 2:50 - Carbon fiber-ing the fretboard 6:27 - Fretless demo 7:30 - Fretless thoughts 8:09 - Bohlen-Pierce scale logic 11:55 - Bohlen-Pierce demos

[@HeyMaxDIY]

Интересный эксперимент )) я тоже делаю видео про diy Guitar ) но таких экспериментов не видел )) cool

[@MattWinkler1]

Спасибо! Твоя океанская гитара очень классная