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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? What I mean is that if starting by the low E the highest string would have to be awfully thin, as it would have to be tuned to Eb... oh my gosh, almost one octave higher than the normally tuned guitar's high E string! That just can't work. But if starting even lower at the bottom? From experimenting with down-tuning normal guitars I know that you can tune at C on the bass string without loosing too much good tone. Anyway, let's say we string up a guitar like a cello: C-G-D-A-E; as my five stringed cello goes. Adding a sixth string on a guitar would mean tuned to B - that is B one octave higher than the B string on a normal fourths tuned guitar. Something tells me that string will break every ten minutes :-) The more I'm thinking about it the more it seems to make sense to tun the fifths tuned guitar's highest string one octave lower, in the C based cello tuning that would imply (for 1st string) the same B note that a normal guitar has as 2nd. Then that string could be used for cluster and close voicing chord work. Imagining a guitar tuning going (low to high) C1 G1 D2 A2 E3 B2. That would definitely work as far as mechanics go. The A2 string and above should plain to allow glissando bending. When thinking about how chords and scales work out on such a fretboard it seems even better than the traditional guitar tuning. The key question here is how does such a tuning affect the feel and resonance of a normal electric guitar? So, has anyone tried it? Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen