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Location: Upper Left USA | When you "bump" you are reposting so that it goes to the top of the listing. Many people (self) tend to skim the latest posts by using the "Get Plugged In" button. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Also a great way to reactivate a ggod topic that might have been overlooked the first time through.
I have seen topics that had maybe one or two responses that got bumped and then had another 10-20 responses come in. |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Mtnbikerfred:
I guess I'll just have to be content with the 12 fret slothead I already own.....
Fred Famous last words. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I posted this on the "UPS" thread as well...
I tuned down to DADGAD for the first time on the U681T. I only know two tunes in this tuning.
...But good as the guitar sounds in standard tuning, it is even better in DADGAD and I'm not talking about the more melodic sound of the tuning but the way the guitar produces the sound. |
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Location: NJ | Jeff;
My SlotHead's the same way.
As great as it sounds in "standard" tuning,
the thing just comes ALIVE when I tune it DoubleDropD.
Must have something to do with the resonant frequency of the top, but it just becomes an ANIMAL in this tuning (which is how I usually leave it now . . . ). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I hears ya, Cliff.
It sounds almost like a 12 string (I said *almost*). Unbelievable. I have to learn, more about and songs in, that tuning. It makes the hair on my arms stand up. |
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Location: NJ | I've got a book on AlternateTunings and it lists (by tuning) several popular tunes that were recorded in each particular tuning. I'll check it tonite and post the DADGAD tunes . . . I seem to remember there's a bunch of 'em . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | CLiff, I would like to see that also. Sounds like a good book. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliff,
You are both a gentleman and scholar, to be commended for you dedication to the furtherence of the cause. The beer and women are on me. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | But they would rather be both on and with me :p |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah, that's what they keep pleading. Marvelous restaints they make these days with modern composits. |
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| You can get 'em fur lined as well - don't leave marks (or so Camilla told me).
What gauge strings are you guys using when you drop tune? |
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Location: NJ | I just use the reglar ol' D'add PhosBronze EJ16. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the factory issue D'Addario Exp 12?? I think.
Schoerder,
Be warned. I just received a request to come to Merry Ol' to ply my wares. |
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| Damn, and I'll be out of the country.
(when did you say you were coming?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the eleventy third. |
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Adamas 40th Anniv.
