The Steel Guitar Forum

A tune that has so many possibilities! Same tune on an 8-string in G6 tuning (from the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest this year) and it sounds completely different from your approach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480cwZmHZ4g

I agree with the two standard comments: 1) Having the 5th (in C that would be the high g) on top is extremely useful. A huge improvement over having the third (e), I was immediately won over after coming from the usual C6 with a top e. I'll never switch back. And no surprise that A6 became as close ...

An article on the history of the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Festival published in Folkworks current edition that features a very young Mr. Dave, including the cover picture (no lap steel content - then he was a teenager focused on banjo and fiddle): https://folkworks.org/60-years-later-the-first-topanga-b...