David Lindley's 7-string tunings

[Charlie Campbell]

David Lindley had both a 7-string Rickenbacker and a 7-string Weissenborn. Does anyone know how they were tuned?

It sounds to me that the 7th string of the Weissenborn, which he used to accompany himself, was used to provide a bass note and was likely tuned an octave below the root, but I can't tell for sure.

Thanks

[Allan Revich]

My understanding is that he played pretty much exclusively 1 5 1 3 5 1 tunings, mostly tuned D E and F. It would make sense that if he wanted to keep a guitar tuned up to G, that he might put a low G on string 7, for G G D G B D G, or maybe a low D for D G D G B D G.

It would be nice to hear from someone who knows though.

[Charlie Campbell]

As a followup Ihave been playing witht he notion of adding a bass string as Lindley did with his 7-string Weissenborn. I was able to fit a 0.090 in to my Rickenbacker. This may be reasonabley tuned down to a low G but no further.