What hendrix tuning?

I saw a thing on www.musiciansnews.com about different tuning styles and i've heard of indian tuning but what is hendrix tuning?

[matty_boy]

Dunno if this helps, but I know that he used to tune 1/2 step flat.

[64Firebird]

I think Jimi tuned up with the bass player and didn't worry about it it being the "correct" pitch. As long as everybody was in tune reletive to each other they were okay. Sometimes he was flat and other times he seems to be somewhere in between. Sometimes he was spot on. And of corse his wammy bar antics didn't help.

[72fender]

Jimi tuned to Eb, SRV did the same too. All (most) the new guitar tuners make tuning to Eb very easy.

[gjb3]

SRV tuned to E flat? Is that the same as "tuning down a half-step"? I met a guitarist recently who swore that SRV tuned down "a whole step and a half", which I took to mean C#. This guy did it too and it sounded like crapola. I wondered if we were talking about the same thing...

[72fender]

Yes, just tune down a half step. One easy way to tune, is to capo at the first fret and tune to 'regular' tuning. I keep one of my Strats tuned to Eb for Jimi and SRV songs.

Lonnie Mack (Wham) tunes his flying V down a whole step to D, he used huge strings (0.52 - 0.13) like SRV did, you have to tune down to bend strings that size. Jimi used 0.48 - 0.10 which is why he was out of tune so much after playing a song.

[participant]

Smashing Pumpkins tuned down to Eb, too...

...right now Im recording a song tuned up 1/2 step, with the 6 dropped... drop D#...

...actually, tuned a few cents higher than 1/2 step; attempting to create a unique recording. It's a pain to tune the bass and guitars without benefit of a tuner... must be done by playing into a free channel (by ear). Right now just using the pitch wheel on the EX5 keyboard until I get around to tuning the thing up a few cents.


Chad

[King Elvis]

Eddie VH tuned down half a step because that is where Diamond Dave's vocal range, or lack thereof, was...