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Message 7765
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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007 00:14:27 (-0500) | | From: | David Tanner <dcsrt @.....net>
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| In reply to: | Message 7742 (written by Josey Rigs) |
3 or 4 years ago when I was awaiting delivery of my Guernsey, I was
talking to Ivan and he was testing a tuning device that would detune
certain strings with one move. I believe it was for tuning between G
and D. He was very excited about it. I don't know whatever happened
to the unit or system but he demo-ed it for me over the phone. Worked
pretty slick. - Dave
On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Josey Rigs wrote:
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> Hi list.
>
> Started playing dobro about 5 months ago - loving it. My bandmates
> even like it enough to have me play it at shows. Right now I play
> in two tunings, what I call low G (DADGBD) and D (DADF#AD). I play
> some songs in one, some songs in the other depending on the song's
> key. I'm wondering if there is a solution to having to re-tune all
> the time (since that's a bit of a show-stopper to me) other than
> forcing the set list to keep all the D/E songs together and the G/A
> songs together - that just sucks.
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> Is there an easy way to use one tuning for all these keys without
> setting capo on the 5th fret and such? What tuning is pretty good
> for all/most of them, if there is one? Do I just have to get good
> at changing tunings? My buddy says I should just get another dobro
> for this, which I would love to do of course, but we are already
> trucking around so many instruments! Any pointers welcome here,
> since I don't know anybody that plays dobro to ask about it.
>
> Thankee!
> J
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