source file: m1508.txt Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:37:47 -0400 Subject: RE: King Crimson gives tuning list a thumbs up From: "Paul H. Erlich" >How are you tuning the strings on your 22ET guitar? These days, basically just like standard 7-string, the "fourths" are 9 frets, and the "major third" between the second and third strings is an extra-large one of 8 frets (1 cent off a 9/7 ratio). I tried other tunings but I found that with this one, I immediately knew exactly what to do, as a result of being a guitarist already and having thought about 22-tET for about 7 years. The minor tetrad (i.e., the 7-limit utonality) is difficult to play in this tuning but not impossible. Certain positions of the "minor seventh chord" (0 6 13 19) are also very difficult. But I'm mainly a lead player and can wail away on scales like 0 4 5 9 13 17 18 22, 0 3 6 9 13 16 19 22, 0 6 9 10 13 19 22 and 0 5 9 13 18 22. My decatonic scales are easy enough but require four fingers per string, a technique familiar to violinists playing diatonic scales but relatively new to me . . .