RE: Partner in Scordatura!
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Alternative tunings are common for instruments like guitar, banjo and mandolin, so I'm not surprised that they exist for violin too. It can be like learning the instrument again to adapt. I don't use them too much on guitar apart from songs that drop the low E to D.
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Yep, it used to be quite common on the violin... but again, most modern players lost the ability to do it! One of the many lost skills...
... most of the old Baroque manuscripts have a sort of written tablature to read, so you read and play the notes like you are playing a normally tuned violin, but different notes come out!