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Music Appreciation

In reply to the discussion: Entre Nous - Rush [View all]

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1. Thanks much for this! Here's a little info for music nerds...
Sat Jun 28, 2025, 12:46 PM
Jun 28

...especially those who are Alex Lifeson fans. On this track, Lifeson wanted to use a 12-string acoustic, but when he pulled it out of the case, it had developed a crack which affected the tone negatively. So instead, Lifeson and their producer (Terry Brown) decided to double-track two acoustic guitars, one in normal concert pitch and the other in "Nashville tuning". This is an alternate tuning where the octave strings from a 12-string set are used to replace the top four (lowest) strings on a 6-string guitar. The two tracks are then panned left and right to create a really big "12-string" out of two 6-strings.

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