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Topic: Mooneys guitar |
Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 7 Sep 2024 4:34 pm |
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| Hello everyone. I’ve been watching a lot of Waylon’s old stuff lately and I was watching Mooney play the Dukes of hazzard theme on his other neck (not the E9). His E9 neck is on the back as most of us know but I never see him play the front neck except on this song. His front neck is not a standard C6 I don’t think. The song was in G and he was doing lots of open string hammer-one and pull-offs with the bar. What is the tuning and setup on that neck. Is it an open G tuning |
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Bill Fisher
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 7 Sep 2024 6:13 pm
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G-B-D-G-B-D-G-B-D-G.
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 1:49 am
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Low, to high, by the way.
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K Maul
From:
Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 4:01 am
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I always wondered HOW low and HOW high?
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Joe Bill Moad
From:
Oklahoma
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 8:52 am Great Information!
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Is that tuning like a play all filler tuning or specifically for that one song?
Respectfully:
Jbm
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 4:10 pm
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That tuning is what Mooney called his Dobro tuning.
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 4:25 pm
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It was a permanent tuning.
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 8 Sep 2024 11:32 pm
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| K Maul wrote: |
| I always wondered HOW low and HOW high? |
Knowing his string gauges would be helpful. |
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2024 4:31 am
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Discount that low-to-high reference on the above Mooney Dobro tuning. It may be correct, but there is a chance it is the reverse of that. I checked my notes from Ralph, and he did not forward me a chart for that tuning, or reference any string numbers, for same. So, I just don't know.
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D Schubert
From:
Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2024 5:59 am
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Don't some folks call that cajun tuning?
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Raybob Bowman
From:
S. Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2024 7:16 am
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| Frank Freniere wrote: |
| K Maul wrote: |
| I always wondered HOW low and HOW high? |
Knowing his string gauges would be helpful. |
I would think a standard C6 set of strings would work fine. The low G is one step lower than the A note of the Do-wah pedal. The high G is half step lower than E9 G#.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2024 2:47 pm
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I should probably just get this tattood as much as I use it:
Bob's allpurpose universal string gauge thingamabob:
https://www.b0b.com/infoedu/gauges.htm
you have to nudge things around sometimes but it's a good start. You can straighten it up and print some out, keep them around. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2024 9:54 pm
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Standard Do-Bro tuning is.
6-G
5-B
4-D
3-G
2-B
1-D
The 6th string is G higher than a standard 6 string E
Jerry Douglas lowers to standard 6 string E. This gives him bottom 3 strings Major top 3 Minor. |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 6 Oct 2024 10:47 am
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| Bobby D. Jones wrote: |
Standard Do-Bro tuning is.
6-G
5-B
4-D
3-G
2-B
1-D
The 6th string is G higher than a standard 6 string E
Jerry Douglas lowers to standard 6 string E.This gives him bottom 3 strings Major top 3 Minor. |
You must be thinking of Greg Booth with the 6th string dropped to E, he uses it all the time. I don’t recall Jerry ever using that tuning, though I’m guessing he has “tried it on for size” in the past.
Mike Auldridge used it on a handful of tunes, but it was pretty rare.
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