source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:01:47 -0800 Subject: guitar tunings From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson) "Erik Nauman" wrote: >I'm working on tuning my electric guitar with standard fret >spacings using just intonation This seems on its face to be an impossibility. A guitar has its ftets located to provide a standard ET scale. You need either a movable-fret instrument like an Indian sitar, or newly located frets. > ... and I've got nothing but >questions: >1. Are there books or other resources out there explaining how >people have done this? >2. What tuning tool works best for determining the frequencies? >3. Where can I find lists or charts of various frequencies' >relationships to each other? such as Partch's diagram, which I >still can't quite understand. The book I like best for that is Murray Barbour's "Tuning and Temperament," which is probably out of print but may be in a library you can get to. In this area it is in the GWU library and some others. There are dozens of other books, no doubt, with this information, however. Bruce R. Gilson brg@netcom.com Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:33 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA04787; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:33:48 -0800 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:33:48 -0800 Message-Id: <0099D38F8F101A38.9109@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu