instruments -- guitar tuning

>
> >My only (microtonal) instrument is an electric JI guitar. It contains
20
> >frets in the first octave-- straight across, no partial frets. Mostly
> >7-prime limit intervals (except a 12/11 fret, mostly because there was
> >space there for another fret).
>
> How do you tune the (open) strings? If I recall correctly (and I
might
> not), Rod Poole's guitars, which also play JI with frets going straight
> across the finger board, are tuned with all strings in octaves apart from
> one another.
>

You mean all strings tuned to 1/1 in various octaves? That doesn't seem
like it would be very user-friendly...

I like the tuning (low-->high):
1/1 3/2 1/1 4/3 3/2 1/1 (i.e. open sus4)

This seems to provide the best variety of useful tones available from the
most strings.
kp


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