an experimental repository of guitar tunings.

Tuning Tables
STD	E
F	F#
G	G#
A	A#
B	C
C#	D
D#	Misc
Non Normal
12 String
Notes
Non Guitar

There are really only a handful of guitar tunings that are used with any widespread regularity; standard, open G, open D, open E, open C, DADGAD, drop D, double drop D, open Dm, open A, dropped standard… these cover MOST of what people do. I haven't counted, but I estimate 400+ tunings here... So, why have so many guitar tunings? Certainly, I haven't tried them all- life is just too short! So, why? Is a difficult question to answer…

(Why Not?) or (Because! That's Why!)

Admittedly, the file is a mess! In a previous incarnation, this file was much neater, however, a computer crash and no back-up lost much of the original research, and in slowly re-creating the collection I figured I might as well store them in cyberspace.

how to arrange all these tunings in some kind of cohesive, easy to understand order is a dilemma.

1) deviation from "std tuning". eg tunings that alter 1 string, 2 strings, etc.

2) The tunings relationships to each other. eg all "G" type tunings together, all "D" type tunings together, etc.

3) The Misc Section started to separate all the tunings that start with E, or D, or F, etc. It really doesn't express the relationships between the tunings, but it's a start.

Dis-included, are tunings which remove one or more strings.

There is also the matter of notation using sharps and flats. I don't know what the standard convention might be (if there is one). I have used no hard and fast rule. Perhaps in a future carnation I will reconcile the possible duplications.

here for practical purposes the tuning ranges for each string on a regular set of strings might be:

			 6	 5	 4	 3	 2	 1
			C-G	F-C	B-F	E-B	G-D	C-G