Five notes, no semitones, almost impossible to make sound wrong. Its wide spacing survives projection into any system gracefully.
This scale projects to plain (Pythagorean) thirds, which the Kite guitar deliberately places in wide remote grips. For the classic compact Kite shapes, try the 5-limit just major preset: its thirds land on the downmajor and upminor frets.
| Note | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interval | P1 | M2 | M3 | P5 | M6 |
| Cents | 0.0 (1/1) | 204.9 | 409.8 | 702.4 | 907.3 |
| Snap | exact | +4.9c | +9.8c | +2.4c | +7.3c |
| Triad | |||||
| Seventh |
Forty-one equal steps of 29.3 cents, fretted every other step on the Kite guitar so the neck stays playable. Superb 3-, 5- and 7-limit intonation: the downmajor third is 6 cents from pure 5/4, the fifth half a cent from 3/2, and every chord shape moves anywhere on the neck unchanged.
How well does Major pentatonic fit?
Build your own board
Put frets exactly where you want them, in cents rather than in steps of one tuning: quarter tones, a maqam neck, a single fretlet on one string.
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