page_title: Baroque guitar
section_title: Tuning
hierarchical_section_title: Baroque guitar / Tuning
context_page_description: The Baroque guitar is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first course sometimes used only a single string.
context_section_description: Three different ways of tuning the guitar are well documented in seventeenth-century sources as set out in the following table.  This includes the names of composers who are associated with each method. Very few sources seem to clearly indicate that one method of stringing rather than another should be used and it is often argued that it may have been up to the player to decide what was appropriate. The issue is highly contentious and different theories have been put forward.
  A very brief list of composers and tunings:
caption: The guitar player (c. 1672), by Johannes Vermeer
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