Re: blackjack tuning

I've only been following the standardization effort casually and
it seems to have ratholed on the names of the natural notes. I'll
chime in and say that as a guitarist and poor site reader and
poor pianist, I would rather have the "C" option. Thats generally
a "base of operations" that is nice to have.

Regarding tuning of a blackjack guitar, as a jazz guitarist, it
is a rare moment when I get a ton of use of open strings (it
is much more frequent in classical guitar). So if only three
open strings are in the scale, and/or scordatura (?) is used to
increase that for classical guitar it doesn't seem to be a big
deal. But I also still see blackjack (canasta, et al) as
subsets of parent ets and hence transposable to any position
in the parent et. Paul or Dave, who have worked on partially
filled fretboards might have a compelling idea for something
different, though historically, we have transposing instruments
so that even if it is built in an awkward concert key, performers
can have an easy-to-read key.

Bob Valentine