On Friday 06 April 2001 21:26, you wrote:
> 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.
Indeed. But I (and many others) don't, especially in something like
DADGAD, where I'm more likely to whack a big open D chord (000200) and
tune until it 'sounds right'. At which point, it would not suprise me at
all to discover that the A:D ratios are a lot closer to 3:2 than
even-temperament would produce.
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