So, as on a tenor banjo, I adopted an A on the first string. Originally seen in 5ths, the top string would not go to B. Pattern: 7>7>7>7>3 Harmony: C6/9 | 1-5-2-6-3-5 įripp explained the tuning’s March 1985 genesis in a 2010 internet diary post (as collated by ixlramp on SevenString): “ In the sauna of the Apple Health Spa on Bleecker & Thompson in NYC…the ‘NST’ flew by – over my head, going from right left…low to high. Intriguing in its multifaceted freedoms – but the huge width necessitates a restring to ring out cleanly (31 semitones: a full 5th more than Standard). Sometimes called ‘Crafty’ tuning by associates of Fripp’s Guitar Craft academy, while Fripp has himself suggested that it “would be better named the ‘ Guitar Craft Standard’ tuning, or ‘ C Pentatonic’ tuning”. The resulting layout contains the open notes of the viola/ cello (CGDA) and also the violin/mandolin (GDAE): which, together, form a reordered, register-shuffled Cmaj Pentatonic scale (tones in string order: 6-4-2-5-3str). 3rd at the top to balance out the extreme wideness (and give parallel G tones on 5+1str). Robert Fripp, of King Crimson and Brian Eno fame, devised his fifths-based ‘New Standard Tuning’ (NST) in the 1980s – chiefly seeking to open up a broader range of melodic movements. He stacked up four perfect 5ths, completing the tuning with a min.
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