Just renewed an interest in playing my twelve-string and got to wondering about the tuning. Someone once told me to never tune it to standard guitar notes. Better, they said, to tune it down at least one full step. Or, even better, one should tune it down to G rather than E - (easier to transpose). My thinking is that this may have been conventional wisdom back before the advent of reinforced necks, etc. but probably doesn't apply nowadays. I would also be interested in learning some different tunings or alternate stringing specific to the twelve-string.