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ok, a part 2ish to my post this morning about tuning away from 440. I just spent a couple hours working on some spreadsheets calculating the effects of our equal temperment fretboard against a true pythagorian scale built around 432 hz. What I ended up doing was tuning the strings to a pyth scale:

D A C F Bb E
72 108 128 171 227 324

Obviously, if you then fret normally, you're violating the 'rules' of the system, but there are selected frets that theoretically fall into the realm. Or, you can just do what I'm doing and bastardize it to see if you can do anything cool with it.

The summary is.... it's definitely different... the 'chords' do blend and contrast differently than what we're used to... generating a tuning pattern gave me a headache... and I'm nowhere near depressed enough at the moment to really dig the sound. But it's kinda cool nonetheless. I'll play with it tomorrow. If anyone wants the tuning pattern or the fretboard map of what the new freq's are, then let me know and I'll post them somewhere.

yeah, I can handle it in small doses. I quite enjoy some of Neal Haverstick's music, but then maybe that's because he tends to do a lot of pretty straight ahead music, just using microtonal instruments... so I don't know where exactly to classify him. Anyways, it's interesting )