{"id":186,"date":"2003-12-11T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:24:48","slug":"octave-b-tuning-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Octave B Tuning Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*enters guitar geek mode*<\/p>\n<p>After my first string (high E4) broke from tuning it back from an Open D tuning, I decided to play around with the tunings. What about a guitar that had the chord sound of a piano? A regular guitar chord can span 3 octaves in open position.<\/p>\n<p>I removed both E strings, and took the original set of strings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=150\">New Strings Attached<\/a>, and arranged them like so:<\/p>\n<p><u>D<\/u>G<u>B<\/u>DAB (from 6th to 1st)<\/p>\n<p>The <u>underlined<\/u> strings were from the old, thick set.<\/p>\n<p>I then tuned them to regular B, or regular E up a fifth, taking the octaves of certain strings, so it became:<\/p>\n<p>B2 E3 A3 D3 F#2 B3<\/p>\n<p>To tune the guitar, the following chords should have the same note, same octave:<\/p>\n<pre>b |---------0-\r\nF#|-5---------\r\nD |-------0---\r\nA |-----0-5---\r\nE |---0-5---2-\r\nB |-0-5-------<\/pre>\n<p>It feels funny, because the 2nd and 3rd strings are now wound, and the 4th and 5th ones are not. It makes low power chords sound airy and twangy, while high-pitched solos sound low, and unison bends on the 1st two strings will sound (somewhat) like 12-string guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Regular open position chords, like the D major, sounds less high now.<\/p>\n<p>And now, for the compulsory sound demo, with the song every guitar store despises, because every beginner plays it when testing their guitar:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"octavebtuning.zip\">Octave B Tuning Test, octavebtuning.zip, 365 KB<\/a> (I don&#8217;t know what else to call it&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, when I get a new set, I&#8217;ll string it like EADGBe (where the EAD strings are dropped GBE&#8217;s, respectively.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I was walking past Central Market yesterday, to see two brilliant buskers &#8211; one with a regular green cheap Kapok with chipped off pickguard, and a Morris 12-string! Now I wouldn&#8217;t know the price of a 12-string Morris, but I&#8217;d think it would be beyond the range of a busker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*enters guitar geek mode* After my first string (high E4) broke from tuning it back from an Open D tuning, I decided to play around with the tunings. What about a guitar that had the chord sound of a piano? A regular guitar chord can span 3 octaves in open position. I removed both E [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}