Keeping guitar in lower tuning?

[jazzpazz]

Hey. Just wondering if I can keep my guitar in lower tuning, like 432? Or is it meant to have the tension of 440. Making it bad for my guitar and strings having it lower.

[Cunamara]

There are guitarists that tune down a half or whole step, some even down to C on the bass string. The guitar survives that just fine. You might need to use heavier gauge strings if you tune down that far so that they aren't too floppy at the lower pitch, but you were talking about a very slight difference comparatively speaking.

Forum member Jim Soloway tunes down to C and doesn't put on heavier strings, opting for a very light playing style with very little string tension.

Blues slide guitarists may tune to open E (raising two strings a whole step and one string a half step), open G (lowering three strings a whole step), open D, etc.

A guitar is not a fragile thing. It is designed to support a couple of hundred pounds of tension in the strings. A few pounds more or less are not likely to be significant.

[Greywolf]

As long as the truss rod is set properly , no worries. I keep 3 guitars in Open G all the time . Typically, if you are going to stay in lower tunings upping the string gauge a bit helps.

[Rob MacKillop]

My classical guitars are around 392 or 415, that’s a tone or semitone lower than 440. They sound better to my ears that way. I keep my archtops at 440. Pitch is a moveable feast.

[icr]

If your guitar has an adjustable truss rod and bridge then the guitar should be able to sustain a variety of string tensions from 10 to 25 or so, pounds of force.

[lammie200]

Most of my guitars are tuned down a full step. Not a problem. Usually use 12-52 sets with 13s & 17s substituted for the two highest strings. If I were playing with a bass player I may go back to standard tuning. Otherwise I like what I perceive as a fuller range tuned down a full step.

[Jim Soloway]

Most of my guitars are tuned down a full step. Not a problem. Usually use 12-52 sets with 13s & 17s substituted for the two highest strings. If I were playing with a bass player I may go back to standard tuning. Otherwise I like what I perceive as a fuller range tuned down a full step.

I am as well except that I use lighter strings (10 to 48)

[AllanAllen]

Why do you want it at 432?

[jazzpazz]

432 is the old chamber tone. Which supposedly sound better. If one believes that. It's very much done in classical music, at the cost of not being able to play with other instruments tuned in 440.

Am I right to assume that tuning down 8 hz (-31cents according to my calculations) does not affect strings to the amount I want to change them?

[docsteve]

It will take you about a minute to find out. Tune down and see for yourself. I can assure you that no damage will be done.

As to 432 Hertz sounding better, bear in mind that most guitars are built for the modern chamber tone of 440.


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