Mike Whitaker wrote:
>I would not be at all surprised to discover that most guitarists
>who tune to DADGAD ('modal D' tuning) do so in a manner which is
>not in the least even-tempered, too. And not necessarily
>consciously.
The frets on a guitar are spaced strictly logarithmically, and so
they yield an equal tempered scale. If a guitarist tunes (whether
in DADGAD or EADGBE or any other scheme) by comparing the pitch of
each string to the fretted next lower string, he will be tuning to
an equal tempered scale.
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