Re: bass tunings

["Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

I'd like to hear some songs where you use that tuning...that is really
low! The weirdest bass tuning i've ever encountered (other than any of
Michael Manrings crazy 100 different tunings per song tunings) was in
fifths, like a standard bass only upside down (like a violin right?)
and that was pretty wild...Another cool tuning i like is the one that
a cool bass player named Jauqo III-X uses and that is C#, F#, B, and
E, from low to high...and yes, that E is equal to the low E that bass
players are used to :)
if anyone ever finds the brown sound, it'll be Jauqo :)

Charlie


On 5/8/06, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:
> [Discussion by Charlie and Andreas about weird tunings]
>
> Ok, now here's for another weird tuning. I call mine "inverted lute 
>tuning",
> and it's similair to a guitar tuning, only from top to bottom. In other
> words: I start at 'A (the one below a 5-string B) and it goes 'A E B f# 
>d'
> a' (the a' being the one below a guitar B). The tonal range? Five 
>octaves.
> But yeah, sometimes I even use an octaver (up, mind you).
>
> As for getting the strings: As Charlie mentioned, there are some 
>speciality
> companies who sell these specific string sizes. When I had decided I 
>wanted
> this tuning, I didn't want to search for strings, I wanted it now, so I 
>went
> to a shop and got a) a set of medium heavy six-string strings, b) a set 
>of
> baritone guitar strings. Now the ball ends of those would slip through 
>the
> bridge of my (non-alterated) bass, so I used some aluminium washers.
>
> Apart from that, no changes to the bass (apart from setting it up
> differently).
>
>         Rainer
>
>