Re: Subject: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

[jayrope LD <jrploopers@kliklak.net>]

Hey Per,
I use a permanent installation of
G1 - D1 - G2 - D2 - G3 - `B3
on one of my guitars and have a second one that i permanently retune  
to similarly wide experimental tunings.
Combinations of very small and very large intervals between strings  
are great to find beautiful and unusual chords.
I'm originally a piano player and the chord limitation and lack of  
absolute overview was always something, that bugged me about guitar  
playing - probably the reason why i don't have one guitar tuned to  
standard tuning.
The Gmaj guitar is actually only occasionally tuned to G, oftenly i  
find it much lower. I tune by ear, so it's usually somewhere in  
between. I use the thickest strings i could find, Elixir strings from  
two different sets mixed resulting in a span between a 62 as the low  
string and a 13 or 14 as the highest. i tend tp leave strngs on the  
guitar for years, unless they break, and found Elixir to have a very  
nice aging curve in terms of how they sound then.
pling, pling, 'my six strings'
- - -
jayrope
http://www.kliklak.net

On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:20 PM, 
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com 
  wrote:

> Subject: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options
>
>
> Anyone here on the list having tried tuning a guitar in fifths for
> wider orchestration options? Or even wider intervals? Would make sense
> when looping to get lower bass and higher highs. I guess you have to
> pick a custom string set for this.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com