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Thread #126768 Message #2819430
Posted By: Stower
23-Jan-10 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Re-entrant tuning: why?
Subject: Re-entrant tuning: why?
I have no experience of playing the Renaissance cittern (as differentiated from the modern cittern, a different instrument), the ukulele, the theorbo, or the 5 string banjo, all of which have re-entrant tuning. (I suspect the banjo uses it differently to the others, but I am happy to be thoroughly corrected.)
Could someone who plays one of these please explain: why re-entrant tuning? How can this be employed advantageously when playing, to give an effect or technical device which strictly progressively pitched instruments cannot offer?
If you can give examples, preferably with links to tab or a video, that would be very good indeed.
Yours in hope,
Stower