Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 Isn't 5th tuning on a guitar pretty much just tuning it as if were a 
larger mandolin or violin?
rig


--- On Sat, 2/28/09, van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk> wrote:

> From: van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk>
> Subject: Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 4:27 PM
> Exactly!  While alternate tunings are interesting, so is
> more strings ;)
> I was set for a 7-stringer, but decided to wait it out till
> I can afford an eight or nine stringer.
> 
> 
> 
> Daryl Shawn wrote:
> > This is interesting, Per. Of course, a guitar has
> different resonances for different keys too, but maybe not
> so dramatic a difference, which I wasn't aware of.
> > 
> > I hear what you're saying with regards to range.
> That makes a good argument, if sticking with a six-string.
> > 
> > Daryl Shawn
> > www.swanwelder.com
> > www.chinapaintingmusic.com
> > 
> >> All wind instruments have completely new fingering
> for every key. And
> >>   the resonating pillar of air behaves totally
> different if you just
> >> transpose the key a half step up or down. So the
> risk of getting in a
> >> rut is way smaller than when sticking with the
> guitar.
> >> 
> >>  
> >>> Honestly, I don't see a world of
> possibilities in switching tunings.
> >>>     
> >> 
> >> 
> >> My question, when I started this thread, was to
> find out ways to do
> >> solo looping with guitar and have instant access
> to a wider range,
> >> i.e. being able to play like with a piano; making
> deep bases and high
> >> melodies in one go. The Stick is also good for
> that, but I thought
> >> that maybe you can tune a guitar "wider"
> to expand the range? But
> >> maybe a fifths based tuning will interfere badly
> with the ability to
> >> play fluent melody lines?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > .
> > 
> 
> 
> -- rgds,
> van Sinn