Talk:Open tuning

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[edit] Suggestion for change of title

Somebody on another Talk page (See here Talk:Open D tuning#Re: Retitling the Open tuning article) has suggested that a number of the tunings mentioned here are not really 'open tunings', as such. Effectively, they argue that 'open tuning' is actually a subcategory of 'alternative tuning', since the former term only applies to a tuning which forms a major chord when barred at any fret.

My suggestion, if no one objects to that argument, is as follows: to rename the current Open tuning article as Alternative tuning (guitar) and then have subheadings within that article dealing briefly with the different types of alternative tuning: open; modal; etc, which can obviously then be used as jumping-off points for the more detailed articles on the individual tunings themselves. R Lowry 10:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't object to the renaming, just so long as open tuning redirects there or links there prominently. I tend personally to use open tuning to mean any alternate tuning; They all represent some open chord after all, and for example steel guitar tunings are named after the open chords they represent, such as C6, C9, E6 and E9, despite these full 8 or more string chords being very rarely used. Andrewa 03:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)