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Gordon Collins asks:

> Don't guitarists, like violinists, normally tune the open strings pure?

The standard EADGBE tuning of a guitar has the 80/81 comma staring the tuner
in the face. If you tune all the fourths pure and make the E's a pure two
octaves, then the GB major third sounds pretty wretched, sure a long way from
5/4! I guess it's a pythagorean major third though, is that right?

Anyway I make my fourths all a little off to improve the major third. I try
to get the E-E double octave right though!

Jim


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Gordon Collins asks:

> Don't guitarists,
> like violinists, normally tune the open strings pure?

Not usually, because the frets don't allow good results that way. Any string
at any fret must be capable of producing any member of any type of chord with
equal in/out of tuneness. I record many different professional studio
guitarists per month and rarely hear them tune to anything other than strict
12-tET. Most are addicted to electronic tuners.

David


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