31-et Aria Guitar

To add to the stable of instruments to be used in microtonal composition, this solid body guitar will be a welcome addition to future ensemble pieces. Once again Jerry at The Fret Workshop has excelled himself, this guitar more...

31-et Bass Guitar

A standard Yamaha bass converted to 31 equal temperament - once again by Jerry Crosson at The Fret Workshop. This instrument has taken some 200 hours to re-fret, but the results are really worth Jerry's time (and patience!) more...

Concert chimes

The various concert chime sets are a work in progress. Having discovered the peculiar, and somewhat wondrous, sustaining property of industrial aluminium tubes, we have been on a quest ever since to find the best way of engineering more...

Layke Guitar

The Layke guitar is a standard scale semi-acoustic guitar re-fretted with 31 frets in the first octave. It was conceived by Stuart Stevens, and created by Jerry Crosson at The Fret Workshop, Felixstowe, Suffolk. more...

Microtonal Keyboards

The challenge of using conventional acoustic instruments while working in 31 tones per octave shoudld not be underestimated! You can alter woodwind fingerings, for example - but what do you do with the piano, with its rigid tuning?  more...

thirty-one (installation)

thirty-one made its public debut in the foyer of the Hoffman Building at Snape Maltings, Suffolk – the home of Aldeburgh Music – during September 2010. The 63 aluminium chimes were suspended from the roof beams of the space: a position they occupied for two  more...

Waterfront Scrap Gamelan

The first venture into instrument building, working with parolees to create a instruments out of scrap for Ipswich Arts Festival. It was the first step into the headache-inducing world of tuning metal tubes - in this case to something close to the Indonesian slendro scale. more...