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Topic: Re-entrant strings? |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 11:55 am |
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In another thread (any many before), I see strings 1 & 2 labeled "re-entrant strings". How did this term come into being. I can not find any definition when I Goolge Re-entrant (or reentrant) that could really describe this situation. Just curious how it came to be. We all know that we used to call them "chromatic strings", and that was a misnomer.
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 11:58 am
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Reentrant is the common term for any tuning with strings "out of order."
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 12:14 pm
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I get annoyed when people refer to them as "chromatic strings" and when people spell "re-entrant" without the hyphen.
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Bobby Boggs
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 5:41 pm
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| I get annoyed when people refer to them as "chromatic strings" |
Me to. While they do make it easier to play chromatically,especially with all the knee lever change options we have. Chromatic's they're not. |
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 6:08 pm
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Ian..lol....
I'm going with Reen-trant. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 7:18 pm
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But D# and F# are diatonic, and not chromatic in E.
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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2016 7:22 pm
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But E9 is not diatonic in E.
Re-entrant seems safer. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 6 Apr 2016 10:16 am
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Thanks Lane. I didn't add 'tunings' to my search, so that page didn't come up. Had no idea it was a real term.
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