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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
Violin and double bass are both tuned EADG, but that's high-to-low for violin and low-to-high for double bass (and 4-string electric bass). Yeah I know... but as a music teacher I pretty much know all the tunings, ranges and transpositions for all the orchestral instruments!
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I understand that. Likewise a fifth is an inverted fourth (and vice versa) so reversing the tuning takes it from perfect fourths to perfect fifths. My confusion came from the assumption that when my fiddler friend said that she tunes her strings E-A-D-G she meant it in the same way as a bass guitar or mandolin or (insert 4 string instrument that's not a viol here).
Unless fiddlers do it the right way 'round, which come to think of it is possible; that would put their range more in line with other string instruments that one might be likely to encounter in, say, a bluegrass band.