> In other words... a properly tuned guitar should sound like > the guitarist wants it to sound? Every guitarist has to decide how he defines 'properly', I guess. Physics make it impossible to do a perfect tuning. This is why there existed many different tunings in ancient times, like Werckmeister 3, Kirnberger and even equally tempered was build to make all tunes sound equally bad - not to make them sound all perfect. B flat is not exactly the same note as A sharp, BTW... Best regards ce