The list contains 3 alternative tunings. Some of them should work with regular string sets, while others might require special gauges. It's by no means a complete list of course and I'd love to hear of any other great tunings you've come across. Post a message at The message board and I'll pick it up there. | Name | Pitches | Comments | String gauges | Links |
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Standard tuning(s) | | C | c e g c' e' g'| The most common English guitar tuning. | | | | | A | A c# e a c#' e'| Perhaps the second most common tuning. It's quite common today (if "common today" is a phrase that can be applied to this instrument at all) to play music notated in C on an A tuned instrument, effectively turning the English guitar into a transposing instrument. | | | | Common tuning(s) | | G | G B d g b d'| James Oswald's English guitar music sometimes requires a tuning this low. | | | |
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