?? about the NEW STANDARD TUNING

Hello All:

I am new to the community. A small bit about myself, I am a guitarist
who is very much into everything and everything. A recent
performance by the California Guitar Trio has sparked my interest in
learning scales differently in what they term, New Standard Tuning.
From low to high it is C-G-D-A-E-G. I was curious to know two
things. I am assuming that because of the lower tuning on the low end
and higher tuning on the high end I should vary the string gauge if
performing such a tuning, and how the tuning is in relation to the
piano keyboard. Is this an orchestral tuning?

Just a novice stabbing at beautiful sounds. Thank you all.

Hi Yobdlog?

Robert Fripp's New Standard Tuning will work better with different string
gauges, though a typical Light-Top Heavy-Bottom set might work just fine. I
don't know what you mean about orchestras, but in any case, it really just a
different way of tuning a standard guitar. The pitches will still be the
same as the corresponding pitches on the piano.

This list is about tunings that _don't_ correspond with a way of tuning a
standard guitar so that the pitches are the same as those on a piano. Most
guitarists on this list have at least one guitar that does not have the
standard arrangement of frets -- they usually have more than the standard
number, say 19 or 22 instead of 12 per octave, or are partial or bent frets
that don't go straight across the neck.

There's bound to be a list somewhere of Frippophiles exploring the New
Standard Tuning. Good luck with it!

-Paul