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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings ?? | | Date: | Friday, January 4, 2008 16:07:34 (-0500) | | From: | D. Tannehill <ephsmath-phys @...net>
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----- Original Message -----
From: <reso-man@comcast.net>
> Heyyy Wayne,
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> You don't EVER be sorry for starting a thread sir! I have a list of something like 13 or sodifferent tunings for lap steel guitar, and basically I consider a "dobro" just a mechanically amplified non pedal steel guitar.
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> To get started with "different" tunings, first make sure you've got some spares, but gently take that fourth string upppp slowly from D a whole tone or two frets up to E! Depending on your guitar, if you decide you like this change, you might have to put a 4th string on that's a couple of thousandths lighter, but Wayne, trust me, a ol' Texas boy like yourself will suddenly find hisself in Bob Wills' band!
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> Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ha!!!
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> "Frosty" in Moo Hampshire
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> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Wayne Langdon" <wlangdon@hot.rr.com>
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>> And I'm beginning to feel sorry that I started this thread. Just into this
>> instrument barely over two years, I find this discussion pretty
>> overwhelming.
>> Something to aspire to but not now. I'm just happy to be able to change
>> keys on the fly. Transposing 6ths and all this is wayyy beyond what this
>> old country boy can do at present.
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>> Thanks for all the responses.
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>> Wayne
>> Copperas Cove, Texas
"Depending on your guitar" is right. Hazel (1986 OMI) loves the GBEGBD tuning
and just about begs me to twist on that #4 tuner, but Virginia (2005 Tut Taylor
Virginian) will cuss me like a sailor if I try it with her. Hazel says my band
needs to do more Western Swing and minor keys so she can really show off. But
whenever I try G6 with Virginia, she just makes the most aweful out of tune
racket-I swear she sounds like a tom cat fighting a ojnab.
But beyond that, I hear Blackie DeNeve doesn't like anyone messing with her 4th
string, and will make a sound like "twang-POW" or so I've heard.
Wayne, go ahead and tune your dobro to GBEGBD and just play the tab almost the
way you have it. you may have to move the notes on strings 4 & 3 to get them to fall into place, but I'm sure you'll like what you hear. YCH is a great song that needs to be played a lot more often!
Dan in RI
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