[distressed_romeo]

Hmmmm...the high G idea's an interesting one. Really wish I had my seven with my now just to do some experimenting...

[The Dark Wolf]

Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

The wierd part is, I can see exactly how a lot of this stuff would be more manageable if my guitar had a high A string on top... I need an 8 string, like Paul Galbraith plays...

Yep. He told me pretty much the same thing, hence, the 8-string. Although his primary motivation was to really have that range for Brahms pieces he was studying. From there, the next logical step was Bach.


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[bostjan]

I've never messed with any of those four-part fuges, but I've had two of my electric guitars tuned with a high A. I'd love a seven string classical, and I almost bought an eight string classical, but I opted to get another electric instead.

I used to do the high G tuning on my electrics when I couldn't find strings that would tune to high A.

[stubhead]

A: Have you ever heard Eliot Fisk's various transcriptions of Scarlatti harpsichord pieces? It's completely terrifying, on top of his work with Bach, Vivaldi & Paganini violin stuff. He's one of the very few people I just BUY whatever he records and it's always worthy.
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B: Have you ever run across the tuning that Robert Fripp calls the "New Standard Guitar Tuning?" I'm sure he didn't invent it - it's just fifths instead of fourths - but he teaches all his Guitar Craft classes in it:

C G D A E G, low to high.

The high string should be a B to remain all perfect fifths, but you can't get a string to do that. I kept a guitar around tuned that way for a few years (56-40-26-14-10-9), but I just couldn't get to it regularly enough to do anything but screw up my regular practice. It's also called an "octo-mandolin" tuning. Someday, somewhere, some long-fingered kid is going to jump on that tuning and blow some minds.

[distressed_romeo]

Yeah, I'm familiar with NST, and have experimented with it in the past. I actually found it suprisingly intuitive. It would definitely be interesting trying to adapt some classical pieces for it.

Nowadays, with Garry Goodman's strings, a guitar tuned in perfect fifths across the whole neck is a serious possibility...