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Topic: Anyone tune their Dobro to C6th? |
Charley Wilder
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Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2010 6:29 pm |
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| Jim Grant wrote: |
| how about open g on a lap steel. I am building a double lap and was thinking about trying open g????If so would gages be same as on a regular dobro |
I've played non-pedal in "G" since the 60's. I've always used just a plain electric set of .12's. SIT's these days but I like Gibson's also. Ernie Ball's have an unwound third which I don't like but you may.
I may not have the most discerning ear but .12's always sounded good to me. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 13 Jun 2010 10:20 am
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| Roy Thomson wrote: |
...That was played on the instrument in the photo ...the brute.  |
You might call it the Brute but it has a very nice tone, not so harsh as a regular-shaped resonator guitar.
Surprisingly, I started building a resonator guitar with a rectangular body about five years ago, and due to the pressure of other jobs have never finished it. I've always called that instrument the "Black Brute."
Great minds think alike. |
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seldomfed
From:
Colorado
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Posted 15 Jun 2010 10:51 am
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The tuning I use is (low to high) G D E G B D
A G6 variation. Mike Auldrige uses C6 with great success on a reso.
I like 6th tunings - more interesting to me than a G major. But I
don't play bluegrass either. (alergic to banjos)
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Chris Kennison
Rhythm Cats - steel, guitar, banjo, dobro
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.rhythmcatsshow.com
www.seldomfed.com |
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Don McClellan
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California/Thailand
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