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Jeff Au Hoy
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John McGann
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Finally! A tuning I can use in both keys!
I only have a 7 string, so I got my Dremel out and cut slots so the 4 octave C strings can be closer together and use the same tuning machine. It works best if you use Jerry Byrd's trick of using the same guage string for all 4 octaves. Email Jeff for the guages.
I might rename this tuning after myself, but call it Em(maj7) 9 11 b5/#5 as I find it easier to pronounce. Technically, I did discover the tuning (although in the above post).
Can someone post a JI tuning chart for those C strings? My cat keeps clawing my leg whenever I play that C cluster tuned ET...
I only have a 7 string, so I got my Dremel out and cut slots so the 4 octave C strings can be closer together and use the same tuning machine. It works best if you use Jerry Byrd's trick of using the same guage string for all 4 octaves. Email Jeff for the guages.
I might rename this tuning after myself, but call it Em(maj7) 9 11 b5/#5 as I find it easier to pronounce. Technically, I did discover the tuning (although in the above post).
Can someone post a JI tuning chart for those C strings? My cat keeps clawing my leg whenever I play that C cluster tuned ET...
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Ron Randall
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Jeff Strouse
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Chris Scruggs
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If this is a comment aimed at JB, let me first say that I give him the benifit of the doubt with inventing C6, since no one else has made the claim, (though I have heard Jules A'See(sorry for the spelling) was playing it about the same time, too).
He has said that he has the earliest RECORDED evidence of C6, as early as 1938.
Of course we all have tunings we've thought of that no one else has before, but few reach the "standard" status as E13, A6, E9, and of course, C6.
Technically, you don't invent a tuning, but DISCOVER it, considering you have an average of 8 strings and a standard of 12 notes, it is only a matter of time before someone finds everything out, and if you took out a calculator, you could find exactly how many 8 string tunings are possoble. It would be in the 1000's, but it is possible.
Anyways,
Chris Scruggs
He has said that he has the earliest RECORDED evidence of C6, as early as 1938.
Of course we all have tunings we've thought of that no one else has before, but few reach the "standard" status as E13, A6, E9, and of course, C6.
Technically, you don't invent a tuning, but DISCOVER it, considering you have an average of 8 strings and a standard of 12 notes, it is only a matter of time before someone finds everything out, and if you took out a calculator, you could find exactly how many 8 string tunings are possoble. It would be in the 1000's, but it is possible.
Anyways,
Chris Scruggs
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John Hinsley
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- Location: Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
Jeff, the banjoists firmly believe that the G tuning has the status of holy writ, being provided directly by divine inspiration and given to this suffering world through the agency of Earl Scruggs. The other tunings are used only to delay the set while we re-tune and get our band mates upset that we take so long and never seem to get it exactly right. There is another school of thought (certainly heretical) that banjos are never tuned after leaving the factory.
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Rick Collins
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