This sounds wonderful! Werckmeister III is the soul of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the second well temperament invented (although presumed the first) and every key works in it. But to do that on the microtonal guitar, the Bach sounds so natural. No matter what someone might like today, Werckmeister was the irregular well temperament of choice in Bach's region.
@@axeman2638 i feel like i could easily prove this wrong. Also, isn't the whole point of a well temperament over 12 EDO that most keys work well, but some don't really work that well? It's gotta have some wolf intervals, that's just how it works unless you have more than 12 notes per octave
i went deep on that stuff in lock down, very complex but a lot you can grasp i am sure, i used you tube to learn about it all, i deep dived my playing music and also took bass and vocals as seriously as my guitar, i learnt a lot but the journey continues!
harmonics on guitar are pure tuning (i think) or more representative of the harmonic series at least, ie if you played a scale in harmonics some notes would be more in tune, though only with that root note, change chord and you need differently tuned version of the same notes, its also mathematically equally dived too the ratios, our system is off but allows us to use all keys, the equal in twelve tone equal temprament tuning is that they are all a bit or equally out of tune (though i believe some are less in and out than others) i could be off on some of tha, still learning but its deep lol.
play root and fifth power chord on lowest string, bend the fifth by maybe i millimeter / two tenths of a fret.. it will go more in tune. same with minor third but it even sharper i think, the maj third we use? that is slightly sharp, this is in reference to the root note only though.
TRUE. and the first thing i read was that this was wreckmeister III tuning... as in there are at least 2 others. can't imagine the headaches trying to swap between them.
That guitar is ingenious: The neck has six deep grooves all along its length, so the fretlets can be slid to new positions for different tunings, then clamped in place.
Wow. Never seen one before. So what’s the reason for this as opposed to an ordinary classical guitar and I guess you cannot play this in the same way !
@@steffyweffy777 So the fretlets can be moved individually, to get them exactly in tune for non-equal temperaments (such as the one used here). As for playing, it probably can be played in the usual way, but your technique has to be really clean - like that of a classical guitarist. Try to bend notes or play hard like a rock guitarist, and you'd get all sorts of clanks, buzzes, and strings getting hung up on the grooves or fretlets - and consequent appalling noises.
@@steffyweffy777 Look up equal temperament vs just temperament and you'll understand. (Some videos explain it really well.) A regular classical guitar with straight frets uses equal temperament which is a compromise with regards to the physics of musical notes on a string instrument and it is impossible to tune perfectly. That just temperament guitar in the video is tuned perfectly.
If you look closely it appears to have a lot of elliptic shaped holes, where all the mini-frets can be adjusted within a certain range. It is a astonishing instrument and it sounds wonderful, however I wouldn't want to come inside from the cold with this guitar...
Wow! That sounds fantastic. I'm about to turn 70 and I've played guitar since I was 10 and I'm always amazed by younger guitar players and their amazing technique and facility. Well done Sir!
It must be so difficult to go back to a standard guitar fretboard after this. It's so perfectly in tune! Not to mention your wonderful playing demonstrates the clarity of this instrument. I saw one of Brandon Acker's videos about ye olde guitarra and this would be the modern day equivalent. They definitely played more in tune back then! It must be a nightmare if you want to adjust to a different tuning
@@MrChopin2323 yeah it almost sounds artificial almost to me lol. Tbh I love the sound of like a nice detuned banjo on blues and whatever, so maybe that's why. It definitely does grow on you though, and sounds really melodic and cool
@@arunthebuffoon4554 it probably sounds unnatural to us at first because nothing, except maybe birdsong (anyone know anything about their tunings?!), and maybe a few other things that are found in nature are " in tune". But yes you do shortly catch on to how wonderfully in tune it is! Not sure of it is better, because that is subjective, but it certainly sounds different. I think it's a lot like the adjustment required for your ear when you change your reference pitch suddenly. 440hz to 332hz is such a massive difference that it takes a second to appreciate it. But you will! Just like a guitar like this. Will take a second but you will appreciate it. I think there is a place for both, and people will enjoy it anyway. Lots of live concerts are dropped tune because their singers can't consistently hit a high note on demand (fair), but the audience doesn't notice a thing
@@arunthebuffoon4554 Reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where they switched to healthy food and got ill for a while due to the sheer novelty of it. Good post, Arun.
i love (and play) metal and blues and all sorts but there is nothing like Bach, it is truly beautiful, i love the effortless modulations, the way he works all the non diatonic notes in to it, it's so emotive.
Probably more casual listener but I see JS as one hell of a mathematician. It was the grandson JC that I think had more emotional convection to his scores.
When I A-B this with a version that is played on a standard equal temperament guitar the difference becomes very noticeable! The closest thing to a microtonal guitar I've played is an 8-string Strandberg guitar with True Temperament frets (that uses their own "Thidell Formula One" tuning), and it's amazing how perfect almost every chord across the whole fretboard becomes with a fret system like that.
Wow! I don't know if it's the skills or the tuning, probably a combination- but this is so extremely soothing to hear! Like a cool, soft pillow for your brain or something, i dont know how to describe it
It's adjustable, the owner of this channel Tolgahan Çoğulu invented it, there are some videos on this channel showing how it works :) You can put the frets wherever you like, change it to anything :)
@@leonardogoulart3245 you wouldn't with this tuning, since it's a "well-temperament". The point of these tunings _was_ that they would play in all 12 keys. (Although, each key would nonetheless retain an individual character). This was what composers wanted at the time, and made choosing a key a part of the musical expression! more than it is today.
In the last year or so, I've decided to learn guitar. While I have always been amazed at the talent of musicians, I believe I have an even greater appreciation with just a minimal amount of experience trying to play. Thank you for putting in the work to achieve such skill and sharing it with the world.
When used as an adjective related to a guitar, the word “microtonal” refers neither to a scale or a tuning, but to this type of fret and the way it serves a specific temperament - just Wiki the terms for details ;)
@@Enshadowed It's not microtonal because there aren't notes between notes, instead its tuned "wrong" Although as the other dude said frets like this can be called microtonal
Nicely done! As a guitar player, I’ve really never understood what exactly a microtonal guitar was or how they worked until I read some of the comments below. This sort of reminds me of tuning/setting up a sitar as one can vary the position of the “frets” on a sitar in a similar fashion, and many have micro tuning devices past the bridge to fine tune the instrument as well. I have no idea what the proper names of these parts of a sitar are, but I’m convinced most sitar players spend the better part of the day just tuning the damned thing! I broke a few strings on my sitar, and rather than sit down and try to restring it, I just went and got a Danelectro baby sitar which is much more straight forward and suits my needs.
Firstly. The playing was stellar. Beautiful. The tuning adds another dimension of lovely-ness to the piece. You would have to wonder what Bach would have thought of a tempered guitar. Do I presume a tempered guitar was not around during Bach's time, or were people trying to do this back then (with guitars I mean as distinct from keyboard instruments)?
@@eshaneogy I never thought about that! Thanks for the information. I knew about Bach's experimentation with temperament and 'The well tempered clavier' but I never thought that the guitar could be part of that. Fascinating!
I simply LOVE Werckmeister III. I have my piano tuned according to it. Finally this piece sounds so fine, while on a usual guitar I don't like it as much as on a piano.
This was amazing and beautiful. As a bassist, I kind of get the first 10 frets, but how the hell you're supposed to play anywhere above the 10th fret is a mystery to me - it's like someone shattered the frets and just stuck them back in a random order.
Standard guitars can't be perfectly in tune with themselves. Even when using harmonic tuning to spread it out it only makes the worst offending strings and positions a bit better while making the best a bit worse. Intonation doesn't solve this problem. There are bridges for electric guitar that almost eliminate it but that g string around the 5th fret is the worst and requires uneven frets. That said, we do get used to it assuming we don't have perfect pitch but when played against an in tune piano it becomes obvious again.
@@CynHicks I have seen Julliard auditions go bad for less intonation deviations that a standard guitar tuning generally has. That fretboard is cool science.
wow thats really nice. i have to say, I cant judge microtonal tonal guitar from everything else, but bach on guitar this well played is just a pleasure to ear and mind
You'd be able to distinguish a tempered guitar from a non-tempered immediately if you could listen to single phrases of the piece one after another by each tuning. The thing about temperature is that it's really hard to "hear" bluntly (unless you were a piano tuner or had really perfect pitch), but it works on the overall sound and its harmonic structure. Baroque music intentionally played with these different temperaments. C major sounded really different than e.g. A flat major. In those times it was rare to have compositions in keys with many sharps or flats, just for the reason of temperature.
I don’t know what to say other than WELL DONE! You’ve clearly put so much time into this (let alone the fretboard) and I just wanted to congratulate you on that alone.
Werckmeister III tuning is an artifact of an earlier time, the time when J.S. Bach was young. While it has often been suggested as the very first well temperament, it is not. The first well temperament was invented by Christian Förner, who lived in Halberstadt before Werckmeister took the job there at the St. Martini church as chief organist. The design of the Halberstadt keyboard is the very same layout on the piano today. Well temperament is the concept of a "Halberstadt" keyboard having 12 fully playable keys, in both major and minor. (The Christian Förner design is part of a new book due next week entitled, "WELL TEMPERAMENT BEFORE WERCKMEISTER" by Witold Maciak and myself.) The irregularness feature was an Anhalt Saxen and Thuringian cultural norm, and Bach was of this culture. Important to mention; each key in Werckmeister III has a different intervallic set of relationships, so each key has its own mood, or sentiment. It is an ephemera of music that can get missed when only reading notation. Thanks to this performance, we can hear on a microtonal guitar (as distinguished from a fretless guitar which has a different tone and disposition) the freedom on the guitar, once requiring equal fretted Bach transcription. It now stands on its own in a special way, not quite a time capsule, but a convincing visit to the late Baroque through the auspices of the guitar and an exhilarating interpretation. Congratulations!!
I was getting ready to ask if this was closer to equal temperament. The microtonal frets look curved like a equal temp guitar. If so that's almost like using a microtonal guitar to do the opposite of what a microtonal guitar is supposed to sound like. Idk though lol
- Hello, I'm here to play the concert. - I'm afraid there's been a mistake, my good sir, the concert is scheduled for next saturday. - Well, of course, but I need to tune my guitar before performing. All jokes aside, great playing!
In the upper part.... That's the part were everyone is going to struggle. I did not see him playing there. But it is a remarkable guitar and a verry good guitarist behind it. 👍🏻
This sounds wonderful! Werckmeister III is the soul of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the second well temperament invented (although presumed the first) and every key works in it. But to do that on the microtonal guitar, the Bach sounds so natural. No matter what someone might like today, Werckmeister was the irregular well temperament of choice in Bach's region.
Thanks Johnny, nice to hear from you! I love Werckmeister III on the guitar
tbh Bach sounds great whatever it's played on.
@@axeman2638 i feel like i could easily prove this wrong.
Also, isn't the whole point of a well temperament over 12 EDO that most keys work well, but some don't really work that well? It's gotta have some wolf intervals, that's just how it works unless you have more than 12 notes per octave
@@The_SOB_II me too, but that's our fault not Bach's or the instrument's.
Holy Smokes!
As a guitarist that knows absolutely nothing about a micro tonal guitar this was amazing.
i went deep on that stuff in lock down, very complex but a lot you can grasp i am sure, i used you tube to learn about it all, i deep dived my playing music and also took bass and vocals as seriously as my guitar, i learnt a lot but the journey continues!
harmonics on guitar are pure tuning (i think) or more representative of the harmonic series at least, ie if you played a scale in harmonics some notes would be more in tune, though only with that root note, change chord and you need differently tuned version of the same notes, its also mathematically equally dived too the ratios, our system is off but allows us to use all keys, the equal in twelve tone equal temprament tuning is that they are all a bit or equally out of tune (though i believe some are less in and out than others) i could be off on some of tha, still learning but its deep lol.
play root and fifth power chord on lowest string, bend the fifth by maybe i millimeter / two tenths of a fret.. it will go more in tune. same with minor third but it even sharper i think, the maj third we use? that is slightly sharp, this is in reference to the root note only though.
@@jibicusmaximus4827 thanks for the explanation!
TRUE. and the first thing i read was that this was wreckmeister III tuning... as in there are at least 2 others.
can't imagine the headaches trying to swap between them.
That guitar is ingenious: The neck has six deep grooves all along its length, so the fretlets can be slid to new positions for different tunings, then clamped in place.
Wow. Never seen one before. So what’s the reason for this as opposed to an ordinary classical guitar and I guess you cannot play this in the same way !
@@steffyweffy777 So the fretlets can be moved individually, to get them exactly in tune for non-equal temperaments (such as the one used here). As for playing, it probably can be played in the usual way, but your technique has to be really clean - like that of a classical guitarist. Try to bend notes or play hard like a rock guitarist, and you'd get all sorts of clanks, buzzes, and strings getting hung up on the grooves or fretlets - and consequent appalling noises.
@@steffyweffy777 Look up equal temperament vs just temperament and you'll understand. (Some videos explain it really well.) A regular classical guitar with straight frets uses equal temperament which is a compromise with regards to the physics of musical notes on a string instrument and it is impossible to tune perfectly. That just temperament guitar in the video is tuned perfectly.
If you look closely it appears to have a lot of elliptic shaped holes, where all the mini-frets can be adjusted within a certain range. It is a astonishing instrument and it sounds wonderful, however I wouldn't want to come inside from the cold with this guitar...
@@Baribrotzer fretlets might be my new favorite word
Wow! That sounds fantastic. I'm about to turn 70 and I've played guitar since I was 10 and I'm always amazed by younger guitar players and their amazing technique and facility. Well done Sir!
Thank you :=)
i wonder how 60 years of guitar experience would sound like
Some of the best guitarists I have encountered are children and young adults
I agree, evolution is amazing.
Truly, this sounds so pristine and precise like Bach was always meant to be heard.
Thanks!
The microtonal fretting seems to bring out a truer temperament. Absolutely beautiful!
Because it's a true temperament fretboard rather than a microtonal fretboard, or at least used as such.
@@iceman5117 that’s what I was thinking it it’s a microtonal fretboard but not being used as one
It’s not a microtonal fretboard, it’s a true temperament board. Corrects frets by a microtonal subdivision to be closer to the natural note
@@Juiceboxbrian there is no natural note, it's just a different scale
@@iceman5117 Giving Brian the benefit of the doubt, I think he was trying to express the idea of pure intervals unmolested by equal temperament.
It must be so difficult to go back to a standard guitar fretboard after this. It's so perfectly in tune! Not to mention your wonderful playing demonstrates the clarity of this instrument.
I saw one of Brandon Acker's videos about ye olde guitarra and this would be the modern day equivalent. They definitely played more in tune back then! It must be a nightmare if you want to adjust to a different tuning
Wow a classical that sounds marvelously in tune. Great playing also!
Thanks!
So strange to hear it THIS in tune to me. Makes you understand the WTC's more.
@@MrChopin2323 yeah it almost sounds artificial almost to me lol. Tbh I love the sound of like a nice detuned banjo on blues and whatever, so maybe that's why. It definitely does grow on you though, and sounds really melodic and cool
@@arunthebuffoon4554 it probably sounds unnatural to us at first because nothing, except maybe birdsong (anyone know anything about their tunings?!), and maybe a few other things that are found in nature are " in tune".
But yes you do shortly catch on to how wonderfully in tune it is! Not sure of it is better, because that is subjective, but it certainly sounds different.
I think it's a lot like the adjustment required for your ear when you change your reference pitch suddenly. 440hz to 332hz is such a massive difference that it takes a second to appreciate it. But you will!
Just like a guitar like this. Will take a second but you will appreciate it. I think there is a place for both, and people will enjoy it anyway. Lots of live concerts are dropped tune because their singers can't consistently hit a high note on demand (fair), but the audience doesn't notice a thing
@@arunthebuffoon4554 Reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where they switched to healthy food and got ill for a while due to the sheer novelty of it. Good post, Arun.
I was so hypnotized by your playing that i didn't even noticed the lefty guitar. Fantastic work!
Me too
Thanks!
It flows better than standard tuning.
It's not being used for microtones, it's set up for true temperament
That is nuts! Sounds more in tune and the inner harmony notes are clearer. Wow! Great job.
YO… THAT WAS INCREDIBLE! studied classical guitar for years. Holy moly. Please give us more 🎉
Been studying Bach my whole adult life, and this is wonderful, bravo!
Thank you
i love (and play) metal and blues and all sorts but there is nothing like Bach, it is truly beautiful, i love the effortless modulations, the way he works all the non diatonic notes in to it, it's so emotive.
@@burakakan8341 beautifully played.
Probably more casual listener but I see JS as one hell of a mathematician. It was the grandson JC that I think had more emotional convection to his scores.
When I A-B this with a version that is played on a standard equal temperament guitar the difference becomes very noticeable! The closest thing to a microtonal guitar I've played is an 8-string Strandberg guitar with True Temperament frets (that uses their own "Thidell Formula One" tuning), and it's amazing how perfect almost every chord across the whole fretboard becomes with a fret system like that.
Never before have I heard a guitar so perfectly in tune. It brings joy to my cellist heart 🖤
this piece sounds so good, microtones are the future of music
Wow! I don't know if it's the skills or the tuning, probably a combination- but this is so extremely soothing to hear! Like a cool, soft pillow for your brain or something, i dont know how to describe it
Took me forever to realize you were playing left-handed. Good shit, man.
Dude you can play! Also this piece is just eternal
What's the name of this song. I have to learn this
@@ruskyhrahsel7723 I think its BWV 1001..Gm prelude, presto
I can't even imagine the nightmare to build that fret board. You did an excellent job on the Bach.
It's adjustable, the owner of this channel Tolgahan Çoğulu invented it, there are some videos on this channel showing how it works :)
You can put the frets wherever you like, change it to anything :)
@@Muzikman127 that adds another layer to it then... jeeze
The worsr part is that you have to re arrange it every time you change the key.
@@leonardogoulart3245 you wouldn't with this tuning, since it's a "well-temperament". The point of these tunings _was_ that they would play in all 12 keys. (Although, each key would nonetheless retain an individual character). This was what composers wanted at the time, and made choosing a key a part of the musical expression! more than it is today.
@@leonardogoulart3245 be like Tool, always use the same key, lol
Wow! 😮 One of the most amazing performances I’ve seen on RUclips
Beautiful
thank you
The theory behind this guitar would explain when I am never happy with my tuning. I thought it was just me. That song was amazing Burak!
That was smooth and sweet as honey. My ears are finally happy. Amazing brilliant performance by Burak Akan!
As a lefty, I approve this video! Well played and the guitar sounds awesome. Thank you for sharing.
i was just thinking the same thing. where in the fuck did he find a LEFT microtonal guitar
@@Ana_crusis so he corrected the background? You can clearly see the book about Jimmy Page on the bookshelf throughout the video
@@jasonwojcik Yes, indeed. You're right. Looks like he _IS_ left handed!
@@mikebarrett6029 he is a student of the guitar Institute in Turkey and the professor there who invented these guitars
Can't you just string most any acoustic guitar backwards? There's a lefty at my church who did that.
Wow that fingerstyle picking blows my mind, stunning in visuals and sound
In the last year or so, I've decided to learn guitar. While I have always been amazed at the talent of musicians, I believe I have an even greater appreciation with just a minimal amount of experience trying to play.
Thank you for putting in the work to achieve such skill and sharing it with the world.
It is a real pleasure and revelation to hear this in microtonal scale tuning.
But it is not microtonal at all!! Wtf.
When used as an adjective related to a guitar, the word “microtonal” refers neither to a scale or a tuning, but to this type of fret and the way it serves a specific temperament - just Wiki the terms for details ;)
@@Enshadowed It's not microtonal because there aren't notes between notes, instead its tuned "wrong"
Although as the other dude said frets like this can be called microtonal
@@Enshadowed Well no because there are still only 12 notes on that guitar
@@bargun3943 it's not tuned wrong, the frets are adjusted for true temperament rather than equal temperament
This should have more views than anything else on RUclips. Absolutely sensational. 11/10.
Stunning! The playing, the beautiful pitch and the fretboard. Bravo!! 👏👏
thank you everyone for kind comments :)
This guy is insane.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you
In case anyone was wondering, this is BWV 1001, J. S. Bach: g-minor Sonata No. 1: Presto, for solo violin.
GREAT use case for this instrument 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
also lovely playing thank you
Whew! I'm exhausted... from watching! Outstanding effort!!
I can't tell how much better it sounds.
Excellent work. Very clean tone. Bonus points for having the Jimmy Page book on the shelf. 👍
Wunderschön. Vielen herzlichen Dank.
What an amazing player holy cow
Beautiful and mind-blowing all at once. I bow to your talent, sir.
I never understood what Bach was going for with this piece, but now I do, wonderful job!
one of the masterpieces of the master performed masterfully.
by a maestro :-)
Nicely done!
As a guitar player, I’ve really never understood what exactly a microtonal guitar was or how they worked until I read some of the comments below.
This sort of reminds me of tuning/setting up a sitar as one can vary the position of the “frets” on a sitar in a similar fashion, and many have micro tuning devices past the bridge to fine tune the instrument as well.
I have no idea what the proper names of these parts of a sitar are, but I’m convinced most sitar players spend the better part of the day just tuning the damned thing!
I broke a few strings on my sitar, and rather than sit down and try to restring it, I just went and got a Danelectro baby sitar which is much more straight forward and suits my needs.
Sounds so good, like it's meant to be this way! 👏 🎶
Nice to see some left handed love. Nice playing
Great work. Interesting and creative arrangement brought to life with masterful playing. I enjoyed this thouroughly. Thanks and keep it up.
Good lord. That’s astonishingly good.
Firstly. The playing was stellar. Beautiful. The tuning adds another dimension of lovely-ness to the piece. You would have to wonder what Bach would have thought of a tempered guitar. Do I presume a tempered guitar was not around during Bach's time, or were people trying to do this back then (with guitars I mean as distinct from keyboard instruments)?
The frets were made of gut like the strings and were tied around the neck, so they could be moved into the chosen temperament.
@@eshaneogy I never thought about that! Thanks for the information. I knew about Bach's experimentation with temperament and 'The well tempered clavier' but I never thought that the guitar could be part of that. Fascinating!
@@KT-ut9zg
I simply LOVE Werckmeister III.
I have my piano tuned according to it.
Finally this piece sounds so fine, while on a usual guitar I don't like it as much as on a piano.
Волшебно!!!
Нет слов!
So beautiful
Que trabalho parça! Parabéns
Every note sound perfect on those microtonal guitars.
Incredibly wonderful surprise ! ❤
Thank you. Very few could have pulled this off so cleanly.
This was amazing and beautiful. As a bassist, I kind of get the first 10 frets, but how the hell you're supposed to play anywhere above the 10th fret is a mystery to me - it's like someone shattered the frets and just stuck them back in a random order.
I'm impressed. He's even picking with the wrong hand!
I can't tell the difference but I guess it's easier to notice when the intonation is bad than when it is good. Also, beautiful playing.
Standard guitars can't be perfectly in tune with themselves. Even when using harmonic tuning to spread it out it only makes the worst offending strings and positions a bit better while making the best a bit worse. Intonation doesn't solve this problem. There are bridges for electric guitar that almost eliminate it but that g string around the 5th fret is the worst and requires uneven frets.
That said, we do get used to it assuming we don't have perfect pitch but when played against an in tune piano it becomes obvious again.
@@CynHicks I have seen Julliard auditions go bad for less intonation deviations that a standard guitar tuning generally has. That fretboard is cool science.
Wow!!!
That sounded way more "natural" than I was expecting. Beautiful!
This was amazing! any chance you could do it on a standard classical guitar so we can compare the differences in notes?
how pleasing and balanced, not to mention the performance
Absolutely brilliant!!
wow thats really nice. i have to say, I cant judge microtonal tonal guitar from everything else, but bach on guitar this well played is just a pleasure to ear and mind
You'd be able to distinguish a tempered guitar from a non-tempered immediately if you could listen to single phrases of the piece one after another by each tuning. The thing about temperature is that it's really hard to "hear" bluntly (unless you were a piano tuner or had really perfect pitch), but it works on the overall sound and its harmonic structure. Baroque music intentionally played with these different temperaments. C major sounded really different than e.g. A flat major. In those times it was rare to have compositions in keys with many sharps or flats, just for the reason of temperature.
I don’t know what to say other than WELL DONE! You’ve clearly put so much time into this (let alone the fretboard) and I just wanted to congratulate you on that alone.
thanks man
damn that fretboard looks mega complicated, respect for the precision required to play this
BEAUTIFUL RENDITION! This work is the “polar opposite of musical junk food”. Wow!
PS) Yes, musical easy listening has it’s place too…
And we are supposed to think Justin Bieber has talent? Keep up the great work young man, classical music will never go away.
Wonderful! You’ve got real talent, congrats 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 bach sounds great on that tuning too 👍
Werckmeister III tuning is an artifact of an earlier time, the time when J.S. Bach was young. While it has often been suggested as the very first well temperament, it is not. The first well temperament was invented by Christian Förner, who lived in Halberstadt before Werckmeister took the job there at the St. Martini church as chief organist. The design of the Halberstadt keyboard is the very same layout on the piano today. Well temperament is the concept of a "Halberstadt" keyboard having 12 fully playable keys, in both major and minor. (The Christian Förner design is part of a new book due next week entitled, "WELL TEMPERAMENT BEFORE WERCKMEISTER" by Witold Maciak and myself.) The irregularness feature was an Anhalt Saxen and Thuringian cultural norm, and Bach was of this culture. Important to mention; each key in Werckmeister III has a different intervallic set of relationships, so each key has its own mood, or sentiment. It is an ephemera of music that can get missed when only reading notation. Thanks to this performance, we can hear on a microtonal guitar (as distinguished from a fretless guitar which has a different tone and disposition) the freedom on the guitar, once requiring equal fretted Bach transcription. It now stands on its own in a special way, not quite a time capsule, but a convincing visit to the late Baroque through the auspices of the guitar and an exhilarating interpretation. Congratulations!!
Thank you so much :)
Sounds incredible!!! Don't hear any microtones being played though. But the pitch is spot on!
I was getting ready to ask if this was closer to equal temperament. The microtonal frets look curved like a equal temp guitar. If so that's almost like using a microtonal guitar to do the opposite of what a microtonal guitar is supposed to sound like. Idk though lol
thats insane. Sounds literally perfect
Que maravilha!
This sounds so beautiful I absolutely love it .
I think it just gave me an eargasm 🤩🙏💫💖
So nice
So clear, I could feel Bach’s musical soul reaching across the centuries, through the timelessness, connecting with my essence.
haahahaha the jimmy page book just sneaking into view.....
haha i love jimmy page
Bravissimo👍
this is incredible! so how does a guitar like this deal with a sintonic comma? is there any compensation to play in every key?
Wouldn’t want to be the repair guy who has to do a fret job on that. I tried classical guitar for 3 minutes. It’s just insane discipline. Nice job!
- Hello, I'm here to play the concert.
- I'm afraid there's been a mistake, my good sir, the concert is scheduled for next saturday.
- Well, of course, but I need to tune my guitar before performing.
All jokes aside, great playing!
Many and many notes like leafs in automn, wonderfull!
Yep, very few words of any use, just stunning and beautiful. Its all i got. Just wow
In the upper part.... That's the part were everyone is going to struggle. I did not see him playing there.
But it is a remarkable guitar and a verry good guitarist behind it. 👍🏻
Genius, just genius.
I immediately followed you just hearing the first note. And your guitar is amazing.
Thank you
I had no idea such guitars existed. Wow!
Wow. I’ve never seen frets on a guitar like these. Great job. Beautiful sound.
Amazing job. I am a career guitarist and that microtonal guitar makes me dizzy just looking at it. Great video, playing and tone, dude! Bravo!
I've just arrived from a metal concert... This is fucking awesome! 🔥
I could listen to this guy play for hours. Beautiful.
thanks but you need to sleep
Gorgeous. Thank you.
Love to hear this back-to-back with a standard guitar cheers.
You can check the video called microtonal guitar experiment
wow what a stamina en perfect sound.
Wow sounds so cool
THAT was an absolute delight - top stuff.
I was more impressed by the Magical necklace that keeps moving on its own
Love it😎 my first time hearing music produced by a guitar fretted in such a way... Thanks and awesome 😎 Micro Tonal... I will remember that..
wow just wow 👏👏👏👏👏
Outstanding!
Stunning and Brave 😳🙀
amazing. werckmeister is my favorite tuning on my e-piano.