source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:15:19 -0700 Subject: Re: NYC music From: Steven Rezsutek James Kukula writes: > My friend knows I'm a bit of a Joe Beck fan, and also about my interest > in tunings. He reported: > > > Last night, there were a couple duets between him and the flute > > player, with her on alto flute and him playing some alternate-tuned > > guitar -- a dark and very full sound. > > My friend is an excellent musician so his report on the alternate tuning is > very likely accurate. > I don't want to venture a guess in this particular instance (can you get more details?), but it's been my experience that "alternate tuning" in guitar-speak generally means "tuned other than E-A-D-G-B-E". I've had more than a few disappointments when digging into an article or net-reference I thought was going to be about what we've all accepted as "alternate tunings". Of course, you might take what I say with a grain of salt. While I do actually have a couple of guitars around the house (both either in or becoming 22tet, BTW -- I finally made up my mind :), I'm really just a bass player in disguise. ;-) Steve Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:54 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02647; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:54:38 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02645 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA09392; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:52:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:52:02 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu