(idm) Off Topic: Guitar Tuning

From lwtcdi
Sent Mon, Jan 5th 1998, 22:32

A bit of a poser that has been bugging me unconciously for a while....

Why are guitars tuned so that the last two string are one note higher
than the rest? Wouldn't it make sense to tune them so that they are all
parallel or whatever? There's probably a very good reason, but I find it
most odd!

Gb.
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