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Playing with altered tuning
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at_leo_87
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RE: Playing with altered tuning (in reply to XXX)
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this is from: http://douglasniedt.com/techtiphowtostabilizescordaturatunings.html quote:
As an example, let's say you want to tune the sixth string down to "D" and keep it there. Here is what you do. On most nylon-string guitars it takes about three half-turns of the tuning machine knob (or key) to tune the sixth string down to "D" (a half-turn is a 180 degree rotation of the knob). To "trick" the string's "memory," turn the tuning knob six half-turns down instead of three. That takes the string way past its destination of "D." Let it sit for about five seconds. Then turn the knob back up three half-turns which brings it approximately back to "D." That's all there is to it. Those three extra turns, going down past your destination note and then back up, help "set" or stabilize the string at its new pitch. It will still creep up a little bit, but very little. In his excellent book, Tuning the Guitar by Ear (published by Mel Bay Publications), Gerald Klickstein recommends tuning down nine turns and up six. Experiment and see what works for you. Then, to tune the sixth string back up to "E" after playing in dropped-D tuning, turn the tuning knob up six half-turns. Again, this takes you way past your destination pitch of "E." Let it sit about five seconds. Then turn the tuning knob back down three half-turns which brings it back approximately to "E." Once again, those three extra turns that take you up past your destination note help restore the string's "memory" so it stabilizes back on "E" with very little string drift afterward.
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