[Ericwest53]

Yup. That's where it comes from.

It's a mail in membership, and has no "performance test" in case anyone's interested. A good place to get info about them.

In the latest threads the guitar is described as a "percussive" instrument on par with a piano, and I couldn't understand it considering who it came from.

I guess learning guitar in the 60s and not long after that realising that you couldn't play distorted "thirds" without "beats" and then deciding to "tune the guitar that way, and then when I wasn't in an altered state of conciousness ( can I say that?) realising that you couldn't, i endeavored to tune the guitar the right way and if distorted, to play "power" or "omitted third" chords. No problem.

Starting steel 15 or so years after my guitar made me expect to hear the notes the way my tuner displayed them, and not with the "thirds being flattened to beatlessness".

With the advent of manifold positions and mechanical changes able to move off the "fretted grid" it complicated an already complex instrument. Hopefully not for "all time", though early results are not encouraging.

Anyhow, I've fought my own battles and agrued my own arguments "over there" and don't intend to clutter my "guitar world". It's just information for people to be aware of when and if they note the "pesky" nature of steel guitar tunings.

No, their tuners aren't broke. it's just that they look at the twelve note system as "clanky". In the next breath, they'll go to work playing along with instruments that don't using an "averaging process" at best..

Also noteworthy are that probably the vast majority don't hold to this complex "beatless thirds "theory" and tune
straight up as Buddy Emmons and others do.

They just get tired of arguing over it.

I for one, haven't.

Until lately maybe..

:)

EJL