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The western standard terminology of note names has very little to do with 12-edo tuning, in fact the plentitude of enharmonic clashes demonstrates that these naming schemes are actually a lot finer than … In particular, it works for more accurate 5-limit equal temperaments like 34-edo, and also 31-edo (though that is rather more interesting as a 7-limit tuning). …

Which are overtones proper, so this tuning should never cause any harmonic problems. … D-shape chords will sound very rich in this tuning, not so unusually lean as they do with standard tuning because only using the upper four strings. …

I'm the first to analyze any microtonal detail, but come on... it's a punk rock song. The intonation is a bit all over the place, and that's kind of for its own sake. Insanity, paranoia, self-suppress …

Yes, that sounds like a string gauge issue: the new set is probably significantly lighter. Therefore it doesn't put as much force on the neck, which is thus bent convex by the truss-rod, the strings c …

In principle the same strategy also works without the F-string, by directly tuning the major sixth8va between C- and A string. … If you make this a true just Ptolemaic consonance, you end up with quarter-comma meantone tuning, but I wouldn't recommend that – in my experience it's just too narrow, and Pythagorean-ish melody lines …

If this is a valuable instrument then it's certainly best if you let a professional luthier fix it. They know how to unstick pegs safely and to treat them so they will have just the right amount of fr …

I wouldn't trust my tone memory on this, or “feel”; sometimes I'll hum the deepest note I can and tune according to that, but that's also only accurate to a semitone at most. When I check out some un …

What you do is, you first tune the guitar to Pythagorean tuning. That works the way you described, by matching 3rd to 4th harmonics of neighbouring strings E to g. … That ratio 81:80 is called syntonic comma; it's a small-ish but significant discrepancy between tuning systems. …

Try to find on each string a sequence of notes that changes with the chords in such a way that on every chord you're playing either the root or the fifth. Keep on the recording on, play that harmony v …

In short: yes, this is totally normal! German saying: “Der Gitarrist stimmt immer und die Gitarre nie” (the guitarist tunes always and the guitar never, meaning the guitar is never in tune).

What do you mean by “sounding alike”? A set of strings should sound “alike” in the sense of, the timbre should be mostly consistent across the range. More precisely, e.g. the F on the A-string 8th fre …

Some people seem to make the case that having some keys beat more than others (as is in the case in the older well-tempered tuning systems) is a feature not a bug. … Originally, all tuning systems just tried to give good approximation to just intonation (JI). At first just for a few neighbouring diatonic keys, which can be done quite easily. …

If you intend to keep the guitar in that tuning permanently, it may indeed be a good idea to loosen the truss rod. … If you switch tuning for just a single song, then it's definitely not practical to also adjust the truss rod. …

I suggest reading this answer first (where I derive the stuff I talk about here with some extra graphics). Western music is derived from diatonic scales, like the one created by all the white keys …

Temperature, humidity, looking at it... so, better get used to tuning. Good news is, like with the actual playing, practising tuning helps getting it done a lot quicker! … But don't desperate – tuning may be annoying, but it's a fact of life for a musician, and it's not that bad. …