Microtonalguitar

Boomerang / New Clip Yesterday

Dear Friends,

I hope you are well.

Here is a cover of Boomerang with clarinet and classical guitar. Hope you enjoy it.

Yesterday I was in Eskişehir and thanks to your support, shoot a professional clip for Celil Refik Kaya's solo microtonal piece for me.

I am gonna share it in two weeks.

All the best,

Tolga

Second Bach Experiment

Dear Friends,

After the first Bach experiment's success on YouTube, I decided to do a second one with my student Burak Akan. Here is C major Prelude in 3 different tunings. Which tuning sounds better? 

Tolga

Adjustable Electric Microtonal Guitar

Dear Friends,

I recorded 3 pieces with this guitar that we made for a great musician, Yousif Yaseen from Kuwait. I met him at Berklee College of Music when I performed there and he was studying there. I hope he is gonna create amazing music with this guitar. 

Cheers from Istanbul,

Tolga

Back to the Routine

Dear Friends,

Hope you are still enjoying summer. Mine is finished on Monday. I am so happy that I managed to record something in Paris after a month-stay. Here is Leonardo Garcia. We played a 19th century Ottoman composer tune. We achieved the microtone in pan flute's pipe by filling rices into the tube :)

At the moment, I am planning to go to a studio and record Celil Refik Kaya's Fantasy composed for me. I practiced the piece all summer.

All the best from IStanbul,

Tolga 2018-08-29 05:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Ney & Microtonal Guitar in Singapore

Dear Friends,

I am so happy that my friend Leonardo took some frets I gave him to Singapore and gave them to a great guitarist Neil Chan. As a result, we have this video. Spreading the word!

Cheers from Paris. My last day after a month. It was so good. I finished the History video and worked on Celil Refik Kaya's Fantasie composed for me. I'll record it in a few weeks.

All the best,

Tolga

History of Microtonal Guitars

Dear Friends,

Here is the video. I am happy with the result. Yesterday morning I spent an hour alone with Lacote's 1845 microtonal guitar at Musée de la Musique, Paris and put new photos into the related part. I even shoot a video about that guitar, If they let me use it, I'll share it.

Please check your names at the end of the video.

All the best,

Tolga

Early Access - Any opinions?

Dear Friends,

Here is my latest video which makes me really excited. I've just summarized all my knowledge in 9 minutes :)

Please don't share it until I share it on the social media. Haven't shared it yet.

Any mistakes you spot, please tell me.

Most of you can find their names at the end of the video. I worked with Emre Unlenen for the video shooting who is doing great job in the last days.

Looking forward to your feedback,

Tolga

World's first microtonal ukulele

Dear Friends,

I am so happy that great British ukulele player Samantha Muir converted her ukulele to a microtonal one and played this fabulous tune. By the way she is also my patron here and she might be seeing this post :)

Cheers from cloudy but hot Paris,

Tolga

Paris for a month

Dear Friends,

As you can see in the photo, we’ve arrived to Paris and having fun (though my day was ruined after this because of motion sickness).

By any chance if anyone of you comes to Paris until 14th August, i’d like to meet.

By the way, i am preparing a video entitled ‘History of Microtonal Guitars’. I paid to a prof video director with your support here.

I am so excited about this video.

Au revoir,

Tolga

Finally

Dear Friends,

I've finally found a spot to send you my new CD and book.

Hope you will get it in a few weeks.

2018 has been a very productive year for me so far. 

All the best,

Tolga 

New Video

Dear Friends,

Here is my latest video. I hope it is going to create an awareness in the guitar world about movable-fretted guitars. 

In a few days, I'll start posting my new CD to my patreons, sorry for the delay.

Cheers,

Tolga

New CD!

Dear Friends,

Here is the teaser for my new CD. Don't forget to check the ending, as I promised on Patreon, I thanked my 10 dollars and more supporters. I also put your names in the liner notes. You will get the CD in a few weeks, I'll send you soon.

Hope you like the CD.

Best,

Tolga

Adjustable Electric Microtonal Guitar

Dear Friends,

You never know what becomes popular on YouTube. Last week I played three tunes on the newly finished microtonal guitar, we recorded it on my Iphone and uploaded this one on YouTube. It suddenly becomes 25000. 

By the way, the guitar you see is the world's 5th adjustable microtonal guitar I designed back in 2008.

All the best,

Tolga

Mak's Amazing Video

Dear Friends,

I keep sharing the wonderful microtonal guitar music videos from great people. Here is my friend Mak Grgic's album teaser, released from MicroFest Records by the Microtonal Guitar Pioneer John Schneider.

He played the Bach's Chaconne in Kirnberger III tuning.

I hope you like it.

Best,

Tolga

Great piece for microtonal guitar

Dear Friends,

My friend İlke Şen composed a great piece for me. I was lucky to shot it at University of Bristol. I hope you gonna like it.

Cheers,

Tolga

Videos from other people

Dear Friends,

Interesting that I started receiving many microtonal videos from all around the world and started sharing them on my youtube page. In addition to my own work, I decided that my channel can serve for everyone else's high-quality microtonal guitar and music videos to promote microtonal music further. Let me know your thoughts about this.

I am close to my 5th CD, I'll keep you updated.

Best,

Tolga

2 New Videos

Dear Friends,

I hope you are well. I've published 2 videos which makes me so happy. The first one is a video with kanun. Thanks to your support, I found a professional director who shot the video and edited it. You can see that it is different than my ordinary ones.

The 2nd video is entitled 'Microtonal Guitar Videos from You 01-50'. I don't believe that 50 people sent me their microtonal guitar videos.

Here is the link: 2018-04-26 13:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Thanks to my Patreons!

Dear Friends,

I just come back from Greece, 5th Thrace Guitar Festival and shared a video about the story of microtonal guitar competitions. I talked about Patreon many times in the video because thanks to your support I got the small frets and posted them to 91 guitarists around the world in two competitions. At the end of the video I wrote my Patreon's names who supported me with 5 dollars and more. Please check your names if they are right :)

Turkish version of the video is seperate. ...

New Video

Dear Friends,

Here is the world's first recording of Fluid Dulcimer and Adjustable Microtonal Guitar. We recorded this a year ago in Brighton at Geoffrey's house. I hope you like it. Best, Tolga

First Place

Here we are. Great arrangement by Ali Han. 

Upcoming CD and Book

Dear Friends,

I'd like to share with you two news. One is an upcoming CD entitled 'microtonal', consists mostly of solo and duo microtonal guitar pieces. I think it is gonna be ready in April or May. I'll send it to some of my patreons. I've already paid a lot of money from your support for copyright issues to 4 pieces by Ara Dinkjian, King Gizzard and Refik Fersan.

2nd is the book I've mentioned to you, co-authored with Fernando Perez.  I'll send it to some of my patreons as well. ...

1000 Frets

Dear Friends,

Thanks to your support, I have 1000 frets for my upcoming book, co-authored with my friend Fernando Perez. We are planning to give 10 free frets with the book. the book is entitled 'Microtonal Guitar for Standard Guitar with Added Frets: Turkish & Persian Traditional Music

All the best,

Tolga

2nd Place

Dear Friends,

Here is the 2nd prize winner of the competition (though there is no actual prize in this competition. It is the free frets and sharing the videos on social media :)

Hope you like it,

Tolga

3rd Place

Dear Patreons,

It is time to share the best three in the competition.

Third place goes to Iran, great arrangement and performance!

Hope you enjoy,

Tolga

2nd Mention Award

Dear Patreons,

Here is the second mention award. I am planning to share it tomorrow with the world. How do you like it?

Best,

Tolga

Here we go

Dear Patreons,

Finally the day has come and I started sharing the videos, starting from the 3 mention awards which have no ranking in itself. I am so happy with the level of arrangements and performance and the jury members such as John Schneider, Jürgen Ruck, Fernando Perez told me that I must continue organising this event.

Glad to hear that! Gives me energy to move on.

All the best from Gray Istanbul,

Tolga

2nd Microtonal Guitar Competition

Dear Patrons,

I am so happy that I've received 10 videos from 7 countries for the competition. Most of them are amazing. They prove that I am on the right path :) It motivates me a lot this week. 

I am closer to build cheap microtonal fretboards. It takes a lot of energy but it is worth. If I manage, the number of pieces will increase drastically!

All the best from rainy Istanbul,

Tolga

4 Tunes from 4 Novels

Dear Patrons,

I hope you are well. Here is my latest project. I love reading novels and I tried to build a bridge in between guitar and novels. I hope you like it.

All the best from Istanbul,

Tolga

3-D Printed Microtonal Guitar

Dear Patrons,

Finally I managed to print a portion of the fretboard on a 3D printer with the support you've given. We used polycarbonat which is really strong. I was disappointed about my channels which are smaller than the original. They told me that this is normal in 3d printing. It shrinks. 

My dream is still printing the whole fretboard which costs 310 euros. 

The only problem is the frets. When you print them, the quality is too low. I need opinions whethe...

New Video

Dear Patrons,

Here is my latest video about microtonal rock. Hope you enjoy, Tolgahan