How to tune your guitar

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12th fret is half the distance between the nut and the center of the bridge.

The first fret is 1/18th the full scale length from the nut. The second fret is 1/18 of the distance of the length from the first fret to the center of the bridge. The third fret is 1/18 of the distance of the second fret to the center of the bridge. The rest of them follow the same 1/18th of the distance pattern...

If you screw up the distance just a touch, it'll screw the intonation up on the rest of the fretboard.. But not all is lost.. You just raise the action way up and tell everyone you were making a blues slide guitar..

Rob
 
I disagree with the premise of retrained your ears to accept equal temperament. Equal temperament is evil :mad: One of these days, man, I'm gonna build a 16-fret/octave instrument (based on a 19-tone scale, minus three less useful notes).

In the meantime, I like 1-3 slightly flat, but not flat enough to make the thirds correct, just tolerable, while the octaves are tolerable too.
 
man...i clicked that link.

too much reading. why do you need to read a novel just to say tune by octaves.

and for those that tune with a pedal...its not in tune. i tune pianos, and every tunist knows that tuners only work with a certain range. it flattens as you go down, and sharpens as you go up the piano. you have to tune most of the piano by octaves/ears. to be in tune, you have to be out of tune with a pedal
 
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