Examining tuning – a universal string-playing experience – from multiple perspectives: Ming dynasty microtonality to modern neuroscience via Vedic mythology, anticolonial Andean folk, slow-mo string oscillations, and more. Tuning may well be the guitar’s most conceptually interconnective zone…
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George Howlett is a London-based musician, writer, and teacher (guitars, sitar, tabla, & santoor). Above all I seek to enthuse fellow sonic searchers, interconnecting fresh vibrations with the voices, cultures, and passions behind them. See Home & Writings, and hit me up for Online Lessons!
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