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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I am intrigued by "Nashville Tuning". Which requires tuning the low three strings an octive higher. Is anyone familiar with this tuning? |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Actually, the third is an octave higher too; just like the "other" six strings on a twelve string set. Really jangley sound. This tuning was in vogue in Nashville and some in LA in the 60's and 70's, but is rarely used anymore from what I've seen.
I think that with the advent of digital recording, acoustic guitar sounds got so bright that the Nashville tuning, or high string guitar, was overkill.
BTW, this guitar tuning was almost always used in addition to a regular 6 string. So hell, just use a twelve string!! LOL! |
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Location: SoCal | My Legend is strung "Nashville" and I'll use it when I want to do something different from our other guitar player. I also use it when backing my buddy Clark Byron. When played live, you can actually add some interesting accents going way up the neck that you can't do with a 12 string or a regularly tuned 6 string. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I was thinking about setting my CC01 up in Nashville tuning, but I thought about it and came to the same conclusion that Goober stated!!!
"So hell, just use a twelve string!!"
And since I have two 12-strings, I do!!!
I can see it when playing with other people like Paul M. does, though, it gives you a different color to the sound....but playing by myself, it isn't worth it.
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Gotta ask. Forgive my lack of knowledge the ability to stay on subject but...
The Longneck, D scale with heavier gage strings and a two fret drop - has this been attempted in a 12 string? I'm thinking this with a deep bowl would make an awesome rythym section not to mention as a solo instrument. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I play with "Olde Thyme" muscians. I love the music, esp as rhythm guitar. The fiddle and the banjo lead with multiple guitars backing. I think nashville tuning would add an element of richness without playing in front of the fiddle or banjo. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | MWoody,
you pose a facinating question. One that will lead me to even more troubled waters. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have read the posts on an O's vibration going through your body. It seems to me this Longneck 12 would have some serious rumble capability. Even if you kept it in standard tuning (-2) it would absolutely growl. When accompanying instruments in Bb or odd keys I'll have to capo up to be comfortable playing all 3 chords I know. this limits the ability for the "whole" guitar to sing. Dropping two frets would open up alot of possibilities, not to mention exponential GAS problems. |
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Location: Scotland | If I'm recording rhythm guitar I often double the parts with a high-string. It's a great way to make an acoustic rhythm part sit in a mix. For huge-sounding rhythm parts I double track a regular guitar and pan hard left & right, then add a high-string part low in the mix panned centre. I got a super-shallow custom balladeer very cheap on ebay a while ago & that's the guitar I have set up as a high-string.
The Tacoma Papoose or a Martin Terz are also useful for doubling rhythm parts. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Hey Guys,
To be clear-I am playing a 6 string, along with multiple guitars. I might "go missing" if I did the 12 string thing. I thought that maybe I could make things subtlely more interersting if I go Nashville. It's risky...but in a world of Martins, Gibsons and Taylors, they kind of expect the oddball Ovation guy to do something different....that's the beauty of a community as apposed to a band. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Mike, I think what you describe is similar to how Leo Kottke sets his 12-string up...not a longscale, but tuned down a couple of steps and heavier gauge strings.....
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Celebrity CC01 Spruce Top 6-String |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Longneck 12 string, what a lovely idea!!
Actually there's one in my closet. We made about 6 and I think Melissa got one of them or so I was told. Don't know where the rest went other than to the Nashville A&R office.
These 6 guitars were all Adamas. They are just totally fucking awesome, as you might expect. |
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Location: SoCal | Well jeez Bill, if it's in your closet, that would mean that you're not playing it. Kinda cruel to the guitar isn't it? You should donate it to somebody who would play it often and make it a happy guitar. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I'll trade you my daughter for it. She needs to move out anyway! Is that legal?
Like Moody says, it's just cruel. |
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Nashville Tuning?
