New standard tuning

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New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2–G2–D3–A3–E4–G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G). All-fifths tuning is typically used for mandolins, cellos, violas, and violins. On a guitar, tuning the strings in fifths would mean the first string would be a high B. NST provides a good approximation to all-fifths tuning. Like other regular tunings, NST allows chord fingerings to be shifted from one set of strings to another. NST's C–G range is wider, both lower and higher, than the E–E range of standard tuning in which the strings are tuned to the open notes E2–A2–D3–G3–B3–E4. The greater range allows NST guitars to play repertoire that would be impractical, if not impossible, on a standard-tuned guitar. NST was developed by Robert Fripp...

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