again, a bit of a bucket...

...we just throw things in here without a lot of organisation...

 

So feel free to create new todo pages... maybe call them something like todo guitar... if you want something a little more structured...

 

• http://vdgsa.org/pgs/stuff.html#MORE Viola da Gamba Society of America lots of viol tunings
• http://www.violadamoresocietyofamerica.org/Vda.html similar, seemingly independent group, more tunings
• http://www.juststrings.com/societies.html more society links

 

 

• http://www.earlyromanticguitar.com/erg/myguitars.htm romantic guitars with tunings, scales, even string gauges!

 

• http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=155260379 interestng and challenging speculation, some factoids (eg the Stradavi guitar scale length) worth checking

 

• http://www.whitetreeaz.com/guitar1650/guitar.htm awesome history page pre-1650, more worth a look on the site

 

• http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_Strings/indexE.html Crane string corner

 

 

• http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/10string/message/808 also to  Ten string guitar (or perhaps split the page?)

   

  http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/10string/message/7404 add to Ten string guitar

 

 

• http://pacoweb.net/Cuerdas/cuerdas.html in spanish, needs http://au.babelfish.yahoo.com/
• http://www.marcandella.ch/WG4/LaBella/InternationalSets/InternationalSets.htm  nice summary for double-checking but no actual tunings

 

• http://www.geidai.ac.jp/~odaka/gcat/english/chordophones.html University of Tokyo

 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringed_instrument_tunings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:String_instruments
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_traditional_Chinese_musical_instruments#Silk_.28.E7.B5.B2.29
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Japanese_musical_instruments#String

 

• http://www.worldmusicalinstruments.com/default.aspx lots of world music instruments

 

• http://www.folkofthewood.com/Frequently_Asked_Questions_at_Folk_of_the_Wood.html lots of good stuff

 

• http://larkinthemorning.com/category.asp?c=87&bhcd2=1239160265 Lark in the Morning strings

 

• http://www.12fret.com/retail/newtone.htm lots of string gauges

 

• high tech highs

 

• http://www.harpguitars.net/players/tunings.htm add the octaves...!

 

• Table steel guitar add some tunings!

 

• Ten string guitar D minor: D-E-F-G-A-d-f-a-d'-f ' or C-D-E-F-G-A-d-f-d'-f ' ?? and Theorbo: tunings

 

• four string guitars and banjos  is almost worked out, but lots of checking and a bit of research still needed, plus fixing links to previous names
• temperament - write a waffle page DONE
• add rarer instruments such as the piccolo to Mandolin tunings
• ethnic instruments... sazz, bazouki, balalaika... plunder Wikipedia and Lark in the Morning for these...
• lots of guitar tunings still to add... slack key, open tunings,..
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Anisimova_discography contains a piece using cello scordatura but doesn't give the tuning.
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SCORDATURA_CELLO.PNG and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scordatura_cello_2.PNG both seem to give cello scordatura but don't give any other information about them
• Introducing Scordatura to the Intermediate Cellist looks right on topic

 

 

• http://www.juststrings.com/ fabulous site, well indexed, lots of tunings and string gauges
• http://www.teoria.com/articulos/vihuela/02.htm historic guitar tunings
• http://www.lutesandguitars.co.uk/htm/cat12.htm lots more lutes!
• http://www.acousticmusic.org/Guitar-Tunings-sp-80.html lots of tunings, including lutes
• http://www.whitetreeaz.com/guitar1650/tunings.htm all sorts of tunings
• http://www.haruteq.com/bvb-02.htm banjo tunings and more
• http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48739 chicago tuning and more

 

 

Wikipedia:

 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tuning several sections of good stuff
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tuning
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Guitar_tunings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_tuning all here but good to double check the accuracy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings awesome...!
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_guitar#Six_string_adaptations some named six string tunings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guitar_tunings&oldid=278347125#Open_tunings

 

 

Misc:

• Add slack-key tunings to Ukulele tunings
• Fix the inconsistency between Guitar tunings and Lute tunings regarding the 6th course of the renaissance lute, see http://homepage.mac.com/pogmoor/GuitarLoot/page14/page10/page10.html for the source of the guitar tuning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute#Tuning_conventions for the source of the lute tuning.