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Sunday, March 31, 2019

172 THE BOUZOUKI-TAMBOURAS AN INTERVAL OF MINOR 3 APART E2-B2-E3-G3-D4-A4 5-4-3m-5-5-5 TUNING OF THE 6-STRING GUITAR AND OUD

This is the tuning


E2-B2-E3-G3-D4-A4  (for a children's 53 cm scale length guitar)

It is a 3-courses bouzouki E2-B2-E3  and an interval of minor of 3 higher a 3-curses tambouras or sazi G3-D4-A4.

Because the intermediate 3 strings B2-E3-G3 are of  intervals of 4 and 3 apart, and it is an open Em the  B2-E3-G3-D4 is an open Em7 or G6 it allows for ordinary major and minor chord triads with easy dominant and major 7nths.


NOTICE THAT  THE NOTES ARE OF PENTATONIC SCALE

ALSO NOTICE THAT THE ISOCRATIC INTERVALS OF 5 THAT ACCOMPANY FAST DANCING FREE MELODIES ARE THE E2-B2  , G3-D4, THAT ARE THE IONIC AND AEOLIAN MODES OF g MAJOR SCALE.

For the oud and for a standard 66 cm scale length guitar one tone lower is more appropriate

D2-A2-D3-F3-C4-G4

The above tuning seems to be  one with the almost maximum number of strings an interval of 5 apart which also allows for easy 1 or 2 frets major-minor triads

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