source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 00:46:42 +0100 Subject: instruments -- guitar tuning From: "kris peck" > > >My only (microtonal) instrument is an electric JI guitar. It contains 20 > >frets in the first octave-- straight across, no partial frets. Mostly > >7-prime limit intervals (except a 12/11 fret, mostly because there was > >space there for another fret). > > How do you tune the (open) strings? If I recall correctly (and I might > not), Rod Poole's guitars, which also play JI with frets going straight > across the finger board, are tuned with all strings in octaves apart from > one another. > You mean all strings tuned to 1/1 in various octaves? That doesn't seem like it would be very user-friendly... I like the tuning (low-->high): 1/1 3/2 1/1 4/3 3/2 1/1 (i.e. open sus4) This seems to provide the best variety of useful tones available from the most strings. kp SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: PMA? PostedDate: 06-01-98 05:14:44 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 06-01-98 05:14:21-06-01-98 05:14:22,06-01-98 05:14:18-06-01-98 05:14:18 DeliveredDate: 06-01-98 05:14:18 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256584.001746E2; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:14:14 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA25496; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:14:44 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:14:44 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA25191 Received: (qmail 632 invoked from network); 5 Jan 1998 20:14:41 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jan 1998 20:14:41 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu