New Metheny Interview: about new album and baritone guitar

[Navdeep_Singh]

New Pat Metheny interview, speaking of his new album, the new Linda Manzer baritone guitar, and new strings required to give it real fruition.

[Mick-7]

Duplicate (or triplicate) post:

08/06/2024 Good Music interview Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny talking about his new album built around his new Manzer Nylon Baritone

[frabarmus]

More than 1 hour long interview... I haven't had the time to watch/listen... Is it the same tuning as his "Quiet Night" solo album?
(Transposed Standard Tuning with central pair of strings one octave higher)?

[pingu]

yes , he said it’s standard tuning
down a fourth or fifth
from a low B or A I guess
with middle two up the octave look

nylon stings …. i dunno the scale length the bass on it sounds
BIG

he said he found some Argentinian
strings a guy was using on utube
which enabled it to work ok
he didn’t say the brand

whats the scale length of that nylon bari guitar ?

[frabarmus]

whats the scale length of that nylon bari guitar ?

I'm not sure... I guess it must be about 27,5" or something?

[frabarmus]

Nice piano-like voicings... one of (at least) three variations of the Nashville Tuning. Transpose Nashville Tuning to a lower register or Standard Tuning to a higher register, then take the top pair of strings and tune them down one octave (Nashville/Gambale), or tune middle pair of strings up one octave (Half Nashville/Metheny) or tune bottom pair of strings up one octave (Half Nashville/Lerch?), thus you can play nice "pianistic" close voicings without having to change chord-fingerings on guitar. However, these tunings are good for solo playing & comping... a bit less when it comes to single note improv. That's why Gambale has a double neck: one tuned to transposed Nashville/Gambale Tuning for solo tunes and comping and the other one tuned to regular Standard (EADGBE) tuning for single note improv.

[pingu]

I'm not sure... I guess it must be about 27,5" or something?

Yes I wonder how you get Nylon strings long enough for that ?

[frabarmus]

There was also a Joe Beck version of the transposed Nashville Tuning and he had a Cort archtop made for him especially for his tuning. I think, in his version, he had the bottom pair of strings tuned down one further octave, for walking bass lines, If I remember correctly. Jimmy Bruno and Joe Beck recorded an album in which Joe was mostly comping and Jimmy was playing mostly single note solos...

Joe Beck's "Alto Guitar"