Tuning for Old Nick Manoloff Book
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Tuning for Old Nick Manoloff Book
I have an old book called "Album of Favorite Hawaiian Guitar Solos (Cole Edition)" with arrangements by Nick Manoloff. Unfortunately, it starts on page three so there's no title page or any explainations. From looking at the tab and comparing it to the written music, the tuning used appears to be "A" (From low to high):
E A E A C# E
Was it a common tuning in the pre-WW II days? It seems odd that there's no 6th or 7th note used. There's a lot of tunes, so I thought I'd learn a few.
E A E A C# E
Was it a common tuning in the pre-WW II days? It seems odd that there's no 6th or 7th note used. There's a lot of tunes, so I thought I'd learn a few.
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I have Manoloff's "Electric Hawaiian guitar Method" from '39, and that is in highbass-A (A C# E A C# E, low to high).
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low bass A or Hawaiian A: http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/tuning.html
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Why do some people write the date as day-month-year and others write it month-day-year?????
I could never understand why string identification wasn't standardized, or, why somebody un-standardized it.
Paul, that low or high bass tuning is still popular with some old gezzers like me. You realize that the G tuning is the same as the A High Bass, only two notes down!!!!
Geo
I could never understand why string identification wasn't standardized, or, why somebody un-standardized it.
Paul, that low or high bass tuning is still popular with some old gezzers like me. You realize that the G tuning is the same as the A High Bass, only two notes down!!!!
Geo
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I believe you can trace one's tendancy to write down the dates as DAY, Month, Year, back to the military; similarly the way they used the 24 hour clock for telling time.
As stated elsewhere, guitar string packages used to label the strings 1st "E"; 2nd "B", etc. (top to bottom)
Notice they also identified the printing material as "Hawaiian Electric Guitar" or whatever? (Not Tele or whatever)
It was of course, the late comers, that set about wanting to change all of the rules that once assured uniformity and not the other way around. It's evident from posts herein, that they still want to do it their way instead of the long tradionally held, aceepted way. (Top to bottom)
Tradional steel guitar playing definitely played a solid role in the music field. Creative playing is another element but, when the audience doesn't want to hear it nor the band leader doesn't want to hire you, then perhaps it's another example of a wanna-be musician choosing to play what HE wants rather than what the PUBLIC wants to hear. Who is paying the ticket price?
As stated elsewhere, guitar string packages used to label the strings 1st "E"; 2nd "B", etc. (top to bottom)
Notice they also identified the printing material as "Hawaiian Electric Guitar" or whatever? (Not Tele or whatever)
It was of course, the late comers, that set about wanting to change all of the rules that once assured uniformity and not the other way around. It's evident from posts herein, that they still want to do it their way instead of the long tradionally held, aceepted way. (Top to bottom)
Tradional steel guitar playing definitely played a solid role in the music field. Creative playing is another element but, when the audience doesn't want to hear it nor the band leader doesn't want to hire you, then perhaps it's another example of a wanna-be musician choosing to play what HE wants rather than what the PUBLIC wants to hear. Who is paying the ticket price?
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Bill.........one of the first important WARNINGS I was given by an older musician friend was:
"It doesn't make any differece how much you like it, if the customer/leader doesn't, you're gonna be out of a job".
It's sorta been my guiding light since the beginning of time. I've seen lots of really talented pickers join me on the bandstand only to be gone within a week or two as a result of what they played, when they played it, etc. I think it was good advice.
"It doesn't make any differece how much you like it, if the customer/leader doesn't, you're gonna be out of a job".
It's sorta been my guiding light since the beginning of time. I've seen lots of really talented pickers join me on the bandstand only to be gone within a week or two as a result of what they played, when they played it, etc. I think it was good advice.
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Steinar, that was my first tuning, 42 years ago, A C# E A C# E, low to high. I wondered why that Manoloff name sounded familiar. I still have the Leeds book but also had the Manoloff book which was unfortunately lost a long time ago.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 09 February 2006 at 12:54 PM.]</p></FONT>
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Let me know if you want it,- I just bought it out of curiousity, real cheap on eBay. I'll post it to you if you want it.
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