Steel guitarists' tuning names

>> The temperment
>>debate among steel guitarists is quite simple: JI vs. 12TET (though they
>>call them by different names.
>Cool, what do they call them, Bob?
>Erik Nauman

JI is called "tuning the beats out" by some steel guitarists, and "temper
tuning" by others. 12TET actually is called "equal tempered" more often
than not, but I also hear it called "straight up" sometimes (in reference to
the needle on an electronic tuner).

The idea of more than 12 tones per octave is alien to most steel guitarists,
as it is to pop musicians in general. Our biggest concern is not sounding
out of tune with the electronic keyboard and other electric instruments.
But at the same time most of us can't bear equal temperament - our
instruments can sound so much better than that!

-b0b-
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quasar@wco.com (Bobby Lee)
http://wco.com/~quasar/


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