Continuing yesterday’s discussion of Joel Quarrington, here’s a video of Joel Quarrington (who also recently won a Juno award for his recent album Garden Scene) demonstrating tuning in fifths. He demonstrates some Bach, the Elephant, Vanhal, and a lot of other pieces, showing how open the instrument sounds and how it makes some things possible that really don’t work when tuned in the traditional fourths tuning:

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