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Per, Since for the past 20 years or so I've been tuning the first 3 strings of my guitar C G D, I've often wondered what it would be like to continue tuning the other 3 strings in 5ths as well. But because I use the tremolo bar so much, the very thought of all that extra tension on the high strings (and the tendency to break 'em) gave me pause. I never did try it, nor any of the variants mentioned. I pretty much have just stayed with my own weird C G D G B D tuning all these years. Maybe I could get minor points for getting half way there. I pretty much use that one tuning on all my guitars, except for my resonator which is tweaked up to D A E A C# E. I wish you well on your experiments Per. Ciao! Ted On Apr 8, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > Cool guys, thanks for spilling the knowledge! I'm mostly interested in > how players experience the guitar under this fifths tuning. Like... > how does it affect the instrument's resonance? Sympathetic vibrations > when letting a chord ring? etc, etc. But if there is a name for it, > "New Standard" as Tony says, then fifths on a regular guitar must have > been tested out by quite a few and found to work ok. > > Ah, thank you Michael for chiming in on the New Tuning Mystery. Now I > understand. LOL. I think I'll try that but with the one-octave-lowered > B on top instead of the G. This would make fingering cello equivalent > and also add an exciting dimension of burdun and closed voicing (which > is what you lose when going from fourths to fifths). So a handy > compromise that might even not be a compromise at all but a "New > Thing". Yes, "New Thing Tuning"... that's the future :-) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Tony K <bigtonyk@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's nearly the New Standard Tuning except you tune the high string >> to G >> instead of B. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Simeon Harris >> <simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> i did do it once on my VG88, as you can have any tuning you like. i >>> think >>> i started with B or C on the bottom. it was pretty freaky! i have >>> noticed a >>> few players tuning in fourths all the way across with C and F on the >>> top two >>> strings. the range is just so big with fifths and you're limited by >>> what you >>> can do with the top string. A4 is common on 8 string instruments with >>> scale >>> lengths from 24-25.5in, so if you work down from there, you get Bb, F, >>> C, G, >>> D, A, which is doable if you move some strings around, with what you >>> would >>> normally use for a B string on the 7 string on the bottom (down a >>> semi), >>> then an E string (up a semi), then a D string (down a tone), then a G >>> string >>> (no change!), an E string (down a tone) and the 008in A string on top >>> >>> On 8 Apr 2013, at 14:51, Per Boysen wrote: >>> >>>> The more I play fifths tuned string instruments (like the Cello and >>>> the Stick) the more I like it and I'm curious about if it would even >>>> be possible to tune a six stringed guitar in fifths? >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -==-=-=- >> Tony >