Ah. My favorite guitarist's name dropped. It should be noted that Holdsworth actually played a bit of violin (you can hear it on Temporary Fault off I.O.U.; Ka

Ah. My favorite guitarist's name dropped. It should be noted that Holdsworth actually played a bit of violin (you can hear it on Temporary Fault off I.O.U.; Karzie Key off the infamous Velvet Darkness album; and recordings of Tempest, Soft Machine, w/ Gordon Beck, and Gong). Holdsworth even experimented with fifths tuning on his SynthAxe (since you could just do that in software), most notably for the song Non Brewed Condiment[1] off Atavachron, and the solo in In the Mystery, I believe, and had a separately tuned guitar for the live performance of the aforementioned song[2]. There's an interview from the 90s where he talks about his thoughts on fourths vs fifths[3]. He later said at a clinic (in the 2000s) that if he were to relearn the guitar, he would've used all-fourths tuning[4]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTCQ1-GzIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTCQ1-GzIg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO3o484Z2OU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO3o484Z2OU [3] http://www.fingerprintsweb.net/ah/press/gui0585b.html http://www.fingerprintsweb.net/ah/press/gui0585b.html [4] https://streamable.com/njyj8 https://streamable.com/njyj8