Hi Charles. Welcome When I think of a band I played in one guitarist changed tuning for every key change. He played a kind of Well temprement I guess. He played a lot of normal chords. The other one never changed tuning between keyschanges so he tuned more ET. He played a lot up on the fingerboard, Barre. The third one played steel guitar and he tuned pure. I played doublebass and was out of tune. Heavy guitarist tunes very pure so they can ruin it thrue distortion (funny isn't it) The frets on a fingerboard is ET but on the old Gambas with gut frets you could move the frets. Strings like to tune pure 5ths or purer than ET I tune my Bass 4ths and gets a problem with the cellos because my lowest string gets to high So I have to stretch my 4ths more than ET I don't have that problem tuning my bass with guitars I don't think string players are very concerned about the temprement problem they should be but they use there fingers and ears and try to play very pure. Horn players in a symfoniorchestra are the persons that are most concerned about this I guess, because of there sound and chord playing . They can't hide in a group with a lot vibrato as the string players can. Ola Andersson Bergen Norway
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