| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings ?? | | Date: | Friday, January 4, 2008 21:59:00 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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I'm leaving the previous attached, sorry in advance to those who find this
repetitive....(usually I forget to take 'em off anyways but hey, I'm old.....k?)
Hey Dan,
You've got my geetars mixed up son? Blackie DeNeve will do about ANY-THING I
ASK HER TO! I'm no designer-luthier, just a poor ol retired mechanic, but I
credit that internal pipe brace thing that Dick has come up with for this.
"Sadie" my favorite Sho-Bro is the one who, unless she's got brand new strings,
just WAITS for me to "try something," and she'll pop that string, and laff at
me!!! If for one second, I considered this a problem, I'd lighten up on that
fourth string a couple of thousandths of an inch, I use a .035W now, and I'd just
go to something lighter, maybe a .034W or whatever is available. As long as
"Sadie" has fresh strings.....(and I'm careful when I raise from D to E)
it's not really a problem.
Now, in a previous post to the List, I mentioned "Brad's Pages of Steel," as a
source of tunings. Well Brad has been busy! That wonderful site has been
"re-worked" and there's a TON of alternative tunings, thank you Brad! This
site is MORE than worth checking out.
Twangs
Richie
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "D. Tannehill" <ephsmath-phys@cox.net>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
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> > Heyyy Wayne,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ha!!!
> >
> > "Frosty" in Moo Hampshire
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: "Wayne Langdon"
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the responses.
> >>
> >> 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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