source file: m1412.txt
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 09:49:15 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: JI guitar frets

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Joseph L Monzo wrote:
> >>                              Don't forget that JI scales require
> >> dog-legged frets.
> 
> > Not really, not if you're willing to put up with some commas shifting
> > around as you go from string to string, or octave to octave.
> 
> Or if you figure out how to cleverly tune the strings so that
> the frets line up.

Not possible except by tuning the strings at intervals at which the
scale repeats, which is usually octaves, and octaves are rather
impractically wide for a string-to-string interval.

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