| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Out-of-the-ordinary tunings | | Date: | Monday, November 28, 2005 23:57:47 (-0500) | | From: | Michael Shannon <mshannon @...net>
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There's a gentleman who lives in southern NH who plays an 8-string
squareneck tuned, I believe, to C6 (I wish I could remember the make -
maybe Richie the Reso-Man can help here). This guy shows up regularly at a
monthly jam here in Massachusetts, and I once got a chance to play this
8-string - pretty freaky! I had a really hard time with it. I think I
could probably get my head around it if I had some time, but it was hard to
handle just playing on the spot in a roomful of people.
Have you considered a G6 tuning (DBGDEG)? That's pretty close to a
standard G. I use a D major myself (DAF#DAD), which is a standard blues
tuning.
Mike Shannon
Lowell MA
-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Ashton [SMTP:resonator@j-views.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:19 PM
To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] Out-of-the-ordinary tunings
First, many thanks to all for all the valuable advice I gather from you
wonderful folks. Stuck in a non-resonating wasteland, it's great to read so
many informed discussions on everything you wanted to know about
resonators,
but were afraid to ask.
Now my question - Brad's Page of Steel put me onto the C6 tuning, which I
tried out on a cheap lap steel I picked up recently. It's true that
everything sounds a little too Hawaiian until you learn what strings to
avoid, and I'm sure I have this particular string set tuned too high, so
I'll end up getting lighter strings for the bottom three. But it's a very
interesting tuning to work with, and I'll probably leave the lap steel like
this for a while. Does anyone ever put (squareneck) resos into that tuning,
and if so, what weight of string would you recommend?
Any other "non-standard" tunings that people enjoy fooling around with?
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