| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Out-of-the-ordinary tunings | | Date: | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 15:04:38 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Hi again Mike,
Your'e askin if the 5th string on your Goldtone would stand being tuned to B?
If you are useing "regular" guage strings, say .016 to .056, I don't see why
not, since the fifth string in the "normal" G tuneing is B to begin with. When I
say I've just started fooling around with that D or DADF#AD lo to hi tuning, I
mean I'm just retuning one of my Sho-Bros, (actually a round neck 14 fret to the
body instrument), to the "lesser strain" tuning. I'm trying to get accustomed to
the "looser" strings, which is about the best way I can think to describe it. My
"Sally" #1 Sho-Bro seems to LOVE this new arrangement.......<grins>. I
believe folks who play the Weisenhorn style of instruments also favor this D
tuning, correct me if I'm wrong?
What string guages do you use Mike?
At one time around here somewheres, I had a list of about 12 or 13 different
tunings that I think I got from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar's list. There are so
many MANY ways to tune a guitar when you decide to play "Hawaiian Style" which is
actually what we are doing. That was the reason for the multi necked "table
guitars" like the TRIPPLE neck Fender that Santo & Johnny used to record "Sleepwalk" back in April of
1959. (That's right from the album jacket folks, and I actually have a nice
Fender Stringmaster, same vintage, in the closet here!) A more recent example of
this would be Cindy Cashdollar's work with Asleep at the Wheel, first playing a
Fender tripple 8, and then more recently playing a Remington tripple 8.
One of the prettiest tunings if you get into this sorta thing is E 13th, altho
I've never done much messing around with this particular tuning.
So many guitars, tunings, and different WAYS to have fun,
Twangs,
Richie Chiasson
Salem, N.H.
ps, oh yeah, I've known Gerry Jean for many years, and he's a "icon" when it
comes to reso-guitars in our area. I believe Gerry is in his mid '80's.
Something to be said for "clean living" and playing resophonic guitars, huh??
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> That's right, that was Gerry Jean. Gerry is (at least to me) kind of a
> figure of awe - he once told me that he's been playing the dobro for about
> 70 years. That has got to make him the dean of reso players in New
> England. When I first started to attend the Groton sessions, Gerry would
> take a great interest in the cheesy Fender roundneck I used to play. He'd
> always talk about various instruments he had which he'd sell me with a
> trade-in by way of upgrading my Fender. However, at that time, I already
> had my Gold Tone on order, and intended to re-convert the Fender to a
> standard guitar setup (which I did).
>
> As for all these funny tunings, do you think the 5th string on the Gold
> Tone will withstand being tuned to B? I may also try tuning the 3rd string
> a half step up to G, which would result in a Dsus4 tuning (the famous
> DADGAD, though it's actually DAGDAD). That might be fun to fool with for a
> bit of a change.
>
> Mike Shannon
> Lowell MA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reso-man@comcast.net [SMTP:reso-man@comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:16 AM
> To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
> Subject: RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Out-of-the-ordinary tunings
>
> 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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