alternate guitar tunings

Wim Hoogewerf [TD 615.2]:

>BTW: open tunings are not completely irrelevant for the Tuning List.
>There are many examples of open tunings allowing a microtonal
>composition for 12tet fretted guitar.

Robin Perry's microtonal guitar work on this principle, even tho
they *are* refretted and not in 12-tET. In addition to the non-standard
fretting patterns, which are tempered so that the frets run straight
across the neck but which are quite close to many JI ratios, the open
strings are also tuned to quasi-JI pitches.

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I have been having fun tuning my bass to a Just Major seventh (no 5th)
I think 8:10:15:20 are the ratios between the strings frequencies - tuned
with the harmonics...
it's fun to play with drum sticks

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Monzo [mailto:joe_monzo@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 11:47 AM
To: tuning@egroups.com
Subject: [tuning] alternate guitar tunings

Wim Hoogewerf [TD 615.2]:

>BTW: open tunings are not completely irrelevant for the Tuning List.
>There are many examples of open tunings allowing a microtonal
>composition for 12tet fretted guitar.

Robin Perry's microtonal guitar work on this principle, even tho
they *are* refretted and not in 12-tET. In addition to the non-standard
fretting patterns, which are tempered so that the frets run straight
across the neck but which are quite close to many JI ratios, the open
strings are also tuned to quasi-JI pitches.

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Joe Monzo wrote:

> Wim Hoogewerf [TD 615.2]:
>
> >BTW: open tunings are not completely irrelevant for the Tuning List.
> >There are many examples of open tunings allowing a microtonal
> >composition for 12tet fretted guitar.
>
> Robin Perry's microtonal guitar work on this principle, even tho
> they *are* refretted and not in 12-tET. In addition to the non-standard
> fretting patterns, which are tempered so that the frets run straight
> across the neck but which are quite close to many JI ratios, the open
> strings are also tuned to quasi-JI pitches.

No matter how your guitar is fretted, you alwayshave to decide how you're going to tune the
open strings.

What the world is a quasi-ji pitch Joe?

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