{{Short description|Experimental guitar}} A '''tritare'''{{efn|Pronounced to rhyme with ''guitar''. The prefix ''tri'' indicates that each string has 3 branches. The final ''e'' is by analogy with the French spelling guitare.}} is an experimental guitar invented in 2003 by mathematicians Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier of the Université de Moncton of a family of stringed instruments which use Y-shaped strings, instead of the usual linear strings.
==Instrument sound and reactions== Y-shaped strings can produce sounds which are harmonic integer multiples, but also non-harmonic sounds more akin to those produced by percussion instruments.<ref name=Weiss>{{cite magazine |last=Weiss |first=Peter |title=String Trio: Novel instrument strums like guitar, rings like bell |magazine=Science News |date=3 June 2006 |volume=169 |issue=22 |page=342}}</ref><ref name=Sohn>{{cite web |url=https://student.societyforscience.org/article/extra-strings-new-sounds |title=Extra strings for new sounds |last=Sohn |first=Emily |series=Student Science |date=7 June 2006 |website=societyforscience.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |url=http://www.acoustics.org/press/151st/Leger.html |first1=S. |last1=Gaudet |first2=S. |last2=Léger |title=A new family of stringed musical instruments |conference=Acoustical Society of America |date=6 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613080834/http://www.acoustics.org/press/151st/Leger.html |archive-date=2006-06-13}}</ref>
The model uses 6 strings and was commercially available for a short period. The sound effects achieved with the instrument are similar to the sounds that can be achieved with the 3rd bridge playing technique. When tuned correctly, the Y-shaped strings create Chladni patterns.
Depending on how each note is played, Gaudet explains that non-harmonic ingredients can be included and offer a richer sound than a classical stringed instrument.<ref name=Weiss/><ref name=Sohn/>
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