Nashville tuning (high strung)
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Nashville or high strung tuning refers to the practice of replacing the wound E, A, D and G strings on a six-string guitar with lighter gauge strings to allow tuning an octave higher than standard. This is usually achieved by using one string from each of the six courses of a twelve string set, using the higher string for those courses tuned in octaves.
The Pink Floyd song "Hey You" from the album The Wall and the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind" from the album Point of Know Return are notable for using this form of guitar tuning[citation needed]. In "Hey You" David Gilmour actually replaced the low E string with a second high E (not a 12 string set low E octave) such that it was actually 2 octaves up.
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