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Bass guitarist and youtuber Charles Berthoud also makes extensive use of detuners, generally on a LeFay D-Tuner (which as the name hints was designed with a detuner on each string). Adrian Legg is a popular guitarist making use of rapid tuning changes. He was prominent in the late 1980s. The idea may have originated from the double bass extenders.
Five full steps down from Drop D, or one full step up from Drop D1. Double Drop D ♯ /Double Drop E ♭ – D ♯-A ♯-D ♯-G ♯-C-D ♯ / E ♭-B ♭-E ♭-A ♭-C-E ♭ Five and one half steps down from Drop D, or one half step up from Drop D1. Double Drop D1 Tuning – D-A-D-G-B-D Six full steps (one octave) down from Double Drop D.
Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. [1] So where standard tuning is E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (EADGBe), drop D is D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (DADGBe). Drop D tuning, as well as other lowered altered tunings, are often used ...
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Cross tuning or cross-tuning (aka scordatura) is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument.The term refers to the practice of retuning the strings; it also refers to the various tunings commonly used, or in some contexts it may refer to the AEAE fiddle tuning.
Violin – G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5 (ascending perfect fifths, starting from G below middle C) Viola – C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4 (a perfect fifth below a violin's standard tuning) Cello – C 2 G 2 D 3 A 3 (an octave lower than the viola) Double bass – E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 (ascending perfect fourths, where the highest sounding open string coincides with the G on a ...
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To use this tuner, a musician must have a computer next to the instrument to be tuned. An alternative is the PC-based strobe tuner TB Strobe Tuner with fewer functions. Peterson VirtualStrobe application on iPod Touch. In 2009 Peterson Tuners released a VirtualStrobe tuner as an application add-on for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.