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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM, "Gaël D." <luneprod@gmail.com> wrote: > Below is a list of artists (mostly guitar players/bands) using Eb tuning > (which corresponds to a A-412Hz base), featuring Robert Johnson as one > of the earlier adopter, and, of course, Hendrix Putting it that way is based on the assumption that certain frets on the guitar equals certain notes. I'm not sure I agree with that concept. I think that if you tune down a guitar one half-step you are not changing the note A but rather moving every note of the fretboard one fret closer to the bridge. The fret "formerly known as A" would then play the note G#. Some guitar players and wind instrument players prefer to name notes from the fingering on the instrument rather than from the resulting vibration in sound. I guess the name "Eb tuning" draws on that perspective. But an interesting aspect of changing the strings pitch on a guitar is that only the sounding notes are transposed but not the full tempered-tuning-shebang system. So the result will be a different micro tuning of the guitar. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen