| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Out-of-the-ordinary tunings | | Date: | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:16:28 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Mike, you are thinking of my old pal, Gerry Jean, who like myself is an ex steel
guitarist. That 8 string is an OMI, model 63 Dobro. Gerry is liable to show up
with most ANY kind of different tuning, and I think he had some kinda C 13th, on
last Saturday, according to him. Whatever it was, it sure had some nice "chord
voices" built into it......but to my taste......in a bluegrass setting, unh
uh.....no way!
Mike, you haven't seen my "Dolly" Dobro yet. "She" is a '75 OMI 8 string very
similar to the one Gerry had last Sat. night, only much cleaner. My catalog
tells me Dolly is a Model 63, and is "maple hardwoods, top, sides, bottom", and
has a 24 1/2" scale. Sold new for $507.00 Mine had a pickup factory installed,
and that was an extra $99.00. Remember now, this is a "dot" type of pickup and
has EIGHT poles or dots.....obviously custom made for this particular guitar.
Showed this to Mike A., a couple of years ago, and he'd never seen one like it.
Wow huh? "Dolly" also has a "pointsetta" coverplate and I think she was orderd
that way. A really cool instrument, that actually was my very first reso-guitar.
I keep Dolly tuned to a G 6th. That means the 4th and 8th strings are tuned to
E, so you end up with from lo to hi, EGBDEGBD. I take this guitar out on rare
occasions, but if I want a "faux 6th" sound, I find it's easier, (if I have new
strings on), to just raise the 4th string up a whole tone on "Blackie", and
flail away at it. Beware tho, I break 4th strings unless they're reasonably
new......so your mileage may vary, REALLY applies in this case. Mike, I've also
been fooling a bit with your DADF#AD lo to hi tuning, and if you raise the FIFTH
string up a whole tone, from A to B, you get that same 6th sound, in this case I
believe a D 6th. I feel the 6th gives you a "western swing" sound.
Again, your mileage may vary,
Twangs
Richie Chiasson
Salem, N.H.
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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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