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Old 11-13-2010, 06:33 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by yep View Post
Respectfully, this is confusing "equal temperament" with "out of tune", and is drifting way off topic.

Equal-tempered instruments include not only fretted string instruments like guitar, but also pretty much every modern instrument anywhere, including keyboards, horns, and all the rest of it.

Frankly, talking about different temperaments is so far off-topic from guitar setup as to almost amount to trolling, although I'm sure it was not intended as such. A guitar should be set up such that each note it plays is "in tune" with the same note played on a conventional piano, trumpet, harmonica, or any other equal-tempered instrument. Suggesting that there is something "wrong" with equal-tempered tuning is going way off the reservation, so to speak. It's a topic for theoretical discussions of music and sound, not a practical concern for recording setup.

Bezmotivnik above made some excellent posts abut the real-world difficulties of tuning guitars, specifically that a plucked note tends to start out "sharp", settle into its steady-state "note" and then decay somewhat "flat". Personally, I consider the ability to find the "in tune" sweet spot for your playing style to be a sort of prerequisite. And in that sense, tuning a plucked-string instrument is something that requires some degree of art and judgement.

But to bring different temperaments into the discussion of how to set up or record a guitar is both confusing and irrelevant. Guitars, like pianos, saxophones, vibes, and practically every other instrument made today, use equal-temperament. There is little or no point to talking about alternate temperaments unless we're talking about completely different instrumentation and physically different instruments. Please start a new thread if you want to talk about the pros and cons of various temperaments. Bringing them up here is like introducing quantum physics into a discussion of appliance wiring.
You are entitled to your opinion.I disagree.Tune a Guitar to a standard E chord and then play an open G and a Barred G and hear the difference in tuning between the two chords and I don;t mean just because the notes are in a different order.I respect your posts Yep but to bring the word ,"Trolling" applied to me is beneath you.I've even helped,"You" in the past.

I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong but this page explains the,"Small" point I've made,

http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbo...ng/tuning.html.
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