Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths/ my rant defending alt. tunings :-)

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Daryl Shawn wrote:

> BUT I'm a nylon-string player. 

Hmm, that's interesting.
I also play a lot of nylon guitar, it was pretty much my main thing
at one time.
Only alt tunings I ever found appealing on it were dropped D for
that nice bass note, or dropping the G to F# to play lute tab.

With steel strings, I like the change in sound from changing the tension,
but with nylon it doesn't inspire.

I wonder how much of the appeal from alt tuning is the change in timbre,
rather than the shifting around of notes.

andy