Ostrich guitar
| Trivial tuning | |
|---|---|
Trivial tuning contains only one note, for example C. | |
| Basic information | |
| Aliases | Ostrich (D-D-D-D-d-d) |
| Interval | Unison |
| Semitones | 0 |
| Example(s) | C-C-C-C-C-C |
| Advanced information | |
| Repetition | Immediately |
| Left-handed tuning | Trivial |
| Associated musician | |
| Guitarist | Lou Reed |
| Lou Reed played the ostrich tuning D-D-D-D-d-d on The Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow’s Parties". | |
| Regular tunings (semitones) | |
| Trivial (0) | |
| Minor thirds (3) | |
| Major thirds (4) | |
| All fourths (5) | |
| Augmented fourths (6) | |
| New standard (7, 3) | |
| All fifths (7) | |
| Minor sixths (8) | |
| Guitar tunings | |
The ostrich guitar or ostrich tuning is a type of trivial tuning. It assigns one note to all strings, e.g. E-E-e-e-e'-e' or D-D-D-D-d'-d'. The term "ostrich guitar" was coined by the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed after the pre-Velvet Underground song "The Ostrich" by Lou Reed and the Primitives, on which he first recorded using this tuning, the first known commercial composition to make use of a trivial guitar tuning.