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| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Monday, November 5, 2007 13:15:27 (-0500) | | From: | Thomas Thorpe <tthorpe @...com>
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I've been following this discussion about alternative tunings and found it very
interesting and informative. However, performing 3-4 set gigs in a band keeps
you moving pretty quickly from song to song, with little time in between to
retune. Mandolin players do this by keeping two mandolins with them, with one
having the alternative tuning. There are a couple of Monroe classics, e.g., Get
Up John, that require the alternative tunings. So, we just might have to buy
more than one reso ( oh, shucks!) in order to have one we can switch to quickly
for the alternative tuning. I'm trying to back my way into justifying buying a
Beard MA-6 or Benoit to keep my DeNeve company on stage...
Tom> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:33:23 -0500> From: lee.hiers@gmail.com> To:
resoguit-l@elistas.com> Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning> > On
11/5/07, bobmcevoy@comcast.net <bobmcevoy@comcast.net> wrote:> > > I like to tune
the top two strings together at the 3rd fret (bar the second string and play the
first string open) and to tune the 3rd and the second together (bar the 3rd and
play the second open) etc. This is the only way I know to make sure that you can
play the open strings in tune.> >> > This was the way I was taught to tune an
instrument back before tuners. So much less fuss and soo accurate.> > > My bar
placement isn't accurate enough to do this reliably. I find it> much more
accurate to tune one string to a reference and then the> others to that string -
directly or indirectly - by ear in open G or> D.> > For reference, a tuning fork
is nice, or perhaps even the guitar> player if I'm playing along with one. But
most of the time I use a> Strobo-Flip.> > -- > Lee Hiers, AA4GA> "Have Dobro Will
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