Microtonal guitars

One of my former students is deeply into microtonal guitars. He's got a number of different microtonal guitars with different scales and temperaments.

Personally, it's not my cup o' tea musically. Drives me nuts, actually. I've been told that people with perfect pitch or relative pitch (I'm the latter) have a hard time embracing microtonal music, because it simply sounds out of tune.

That said, the broken-fretted guitar in the video would definitely be a challenge to play.
 
I've cut a slotting guide for a microtonal fretboard for my luthier instructor -- he had a client who wanted it and it was gonna be easier for me to cut him a guide than to lay it all out by hand. What an interesting facet of guitars. I'm with vaughn, i can't really get into it.
 
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