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Richard Sinkler


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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
Post  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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Post  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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Post  Posted 5 Apr 2016 12:01 pm    
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_tuning
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Ian Rae


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Post  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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Upstate SC.
Post  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

 

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Three Hills, Alberta
Post  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


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Post  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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Post  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


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Post  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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