What do they mean?

beecee

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From the Westerly Guitar site description of the G-312. Typo is theirs.

http://westerlyguildguitars.com/guitars/g312.html


The entire acoustic spectrum is at your fingertips - particularly when you expore the inventive tuning possibilities that this 12-string suggests.

What inventive tunings are suggested, (or unique) by this particular model?
 

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Think they just mean whatever you come with as it inspires you to be creative .
 

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Well they are quoting a catalog so the text was probably written by someone who didn't really know what they were talking about.

I don't know what "inventive" would mean in this context unless they were referring to the idea that you could actually tune a Guild 12 to concert pitch AND LEAVE IT THERE!!!! Given the tendency of folks to tune down a step (something I don't think is needed but since it is just my opinion vs. "theirs" ...) this might be inventive.

I can't imagine a model specific inventive tuning unless this model changes the "order" of the octave strings. Seems to me the Doyle Dykes 12 did this.

Good question!
 

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Seems to me the Doyle Dykes 12 did this.

I believe so as well.

Thank you sir. Wasn't sure what I was missing all these years and I figured if it worked on a 12 string version of the D-50 I could apply it to most any dread 12 string.
 

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Probably just marketing talk, but there are plenty of acoustic artists from that era whose used some unusual tunings...CSN and Zepplin come to mind.
 

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particularly when you expore the inventive tuning possibilities that this 12-string suggests.
What inventive tunings are suggested, (or unique) by this particular model?

As others mentioned probably just marketing hype and "this 12-string" actually should have read "12 string guitars suggest".

You want "inventive tunings"?
Pretty sure Kottke was known for 'em but of course he wasn't a Guild guy.
Tim Buckley was and he used at least a couple of open tunings as well; but not dreadnought bodies:
http://timbuckley.net/guitar_tabs/dream_letter1/buzzin_fly.shtml.
And then there was Ralph Towner who was just hitting critical mass in '75, but his go-to's were F212's and F512's which he actually special ordered for custom nut width.
You want "inventive tunings"?
From here:
https://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/10/music-and-its-tools-ralph-towners-guild.html
"This twelve strings sound, often obtained with weird non-unison octave tunings, is so unique that only one note is enough to recognize it."
 

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And then there was Ralph Towner who was just hitting critical mass in '75, but his go-to's were F212's and F512's which he actually special ordered for custom nut width.
You want "inventive tunings"?
From here:
https://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2010/10/music-and-its-tools-ralph-towners-guild.html
"This twelve strings sound, often obtained with weird non-unison octave tunings, is so unique that only one note is enough to recognize it."

I cannot begin to understand what he does - his skills are so far beyond my understanding that it is indistinguishable from magic for me. I have seen Andy McKee live, and I understand what he does. I do not understand what Mr. Towner does.

 

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Can't comment on why "this one suggests" something another 12 string doesn't, but dropped D, open D, open E, open G are probably just a few of the usual suspects.
 

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Can't comment on why "this one suggests" something another 12 string doesn't, but dropped D, open D, open E, open G are probably just a few of the usual suspects.

I did put the JF4-12 in "Bruce Palmer Modal" tuning (low to high: E E E E B E - used his band mate Stephen Stills in "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes") a couple of times and it was an awesome wall of sound. Totally worth the time required to tune to it.
 
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