This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment >by showing him how to tune the guitar and yes, by *inventing* a new way = to tune it which you, of course condemned. Guess what, they are again = having trouble finding a guitar player who can and will do the role and = so I am anticipating having to do the same again. I will not even think = about you and the several other people who said that it is not = *possible* to tune the guitar like that because I know it is < As Don Q knew he was fighting a dragon... With all due respect, I can't imagine a guitar tuned so that certain = notes are more harmonically consonant for certain chords without all the = rest of them being somehow out of tune or at least in a version of a = reverse well. For a simple example, if you tune a guitar so that the 'b' = string is slightly flat, thereby making an open G chord have more just = intonation, when you play a C chord the octave will be out of tune with = the upper note flat by that much,etc. I can imagine inversions of an Ab = chord sounding much sweeter than certain C chords, which I have always = taken to be a basis of determining a reverse well. It seems to me = impossible to follow the well-temperament rules of consonance/dissonance = based on the circle-of-fifths on a fretted instrument. As a former = guitar player, and someone genuinely interested in HTs, I would = appreciate an explanation of how you would tune it and how it works and = what restrictions if any are imposed on the guitarist's voicings. Ken Jankura RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8c/80/89/4a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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