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Topic: C6th on weissenborn |
Roger Palmer
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Rossendale, UK
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Posted 9 Jan 2009 1:24 pm |
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| As I'm getting one of the cheap Weissenborns I just wondered how many (if any) players use a C6th tuning on theirs? |
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Edward Meisse
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Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2009 12:20 pm
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I did. I had a Superior. It sounded great in C6. There was some talk on the forum for awhile that," High Tension Tunings," such as C6 were innappropriate and could damage the guitar. So I wrote to the manufacturer. I was told that such stories were pure bovine excrement. I used the low C6 (with the E 1st string). I switched to a tricone in order to get more volume. But I have recently decided that I also need a Weisse. So I'm saving up for maybe a Bear Creek. It will be in C6. I need the versatility that tuning affords.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 10 Jan 2009 8:15 pm
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| I had Bill Hardin brace my Bear Creek at the construction stage for the extra string tension of C6th and after a short while owning the guitar, spent the next eight years tuning it down to Bb6 or A6th. I finally gave in to the fact that the guitar really comes alive in open D. So that's where it now lives permanently. |
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James Williamson
From:
California & Hawaii
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Posted 11 Jan 2009 6:29 pm Bear Creek
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From Ed Meisse
So I'm saving up for maybe a Bear Creek. It will be in C6. I need the versatility that tuning affords.
Ed,
There's a beautiful Bear Creek Kona for sale in the San Francisco Bay Area Craigslist for musical instruments under lap steel.
I have nothing to do with it, but the guy selling it has already come way down with no takers and he might go lower.
Just thought I'd pass it along.
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2009 7:23 pm
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Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. But he'd have to go awfully low for me to make it right now.
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