Tritare
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A tritare is a guitar (invented in 2003 by Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier of the University of Moncton) of a family of stringed instruments which use Y-shaped strings, instead of the usual string-shaped strings; Y-shaped strings produces sounds which are harmonic integer multiples, but also nonharmonic sounds more akin to those produced by percussion instruments. Gaudet contends this allows for greater possibility (although the value of this greater possibility is questioned ). The current model uses 6 strings.
This instrument is totally different then a 3rd bridge guitar, but the sound is very similar. However, the samples mentoined in the external link show, the tritare is not capable of creating pure in tune tones because of the Y-shaped strings (three keys for one Y-string). The 3rd bridge guitar is much easier to tune and hasn't got this tuning problems. Also the tritare has an equal tempered fretboard for the harmonic overtones, which causes resonatingdifferences at different played notes.
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- "String Trio: Novel instrument strums like guitar, rings like bell"; Science News, Week of June 3, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 22 , p. 342
- ^ "Depending on how each note on a tritare is played, the sound can include a few or many nonharmonic ingredients, Gaudet says. So, he adds, the instrument offers 'a richer sound than does a classical stringed instrument.'"
- ^ "The branched string is really a simple analogue of the more complex structures found in things like plates and curved shells--bars, cymbals, bells, and gongs... [but] to my ears [the tritare] just sounded like a badly out-of-tune instrument."
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