Perks, Richard (2023) Transforming the Microtonal Fingerboard: ‘Small’ Frets, LEGO and Robots: Interview with Tolgahan Çoğulu. In: Perks, Richard and McGrath, John, eds. 21st Century Guitar – Evolutions and Augmentations. First Edition. Music and Sound Studies . Bloomsbury Academic, New York, US; London, UK, pp. 25-35. ISBN 978-1-5013-7329-9. E-ISBN 978-1-5013-7330-5. (doi:10.5040/9781501373329.0008) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:97715)
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Abstract
Tolgahan Çoğulu is one of the world’s leading microtonal classical guitarists. He is also a professor at Istanbul Technical University (Turkish Music State Conservatory), where he founded the world’s first microtonal guitar department. In 2008 he designed the Adjustable Microtonal Guitar which won first place in the highly prestigious Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in 2014. Since then, his work has taken the microtonal guitar into even more exciting and novel territories, with recent projects encompassing LEGO, automated/robotic and electric guitar fingerboard designs. In this interview, Çoğulu reflects upon his microtonal guitar journey – from his initial explorations of Just intonation to the incorporation of Turkish/Anatolian makam into classical guitar performance, to employing movable LEGO frets as a potential pedagogical device to teach students about microtonality – and divulges his thoughts, plans and predictions regarding the future of the (fretted) microtonal guitar.
| Item Type: | Book section |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.5040/9781501373329.0008 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Adjustable Microtonal Guitar, classical guitar, LEGO, robotic, automation, Just intonation, fretlet, movable frets, microtonal guitar, Turkey, Anatolia, equal divisions of the octave, temperament, makam |
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M Music and Books on Music > M Music M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature on music M Music and Books on Music > MT Musical instruction and study |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts |
| Depositing User: | Richard Perks |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2022 13:00 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 13:02 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/97715 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
Perks, Richard.
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