slide tunings - Slide and Alternate tunings

RE: slide tunings

Deaf David — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:07:14 +0000

He even doubled his "two sites!" :lol: Now Rico, you know there are only three kinds of people in the world: those that can count and those that can't.

RE: slide tunings

Ricochet — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 05:31:25 +0000

He even doubled his "two sites!" :lol:

RE: slide tunings

Caevan O'Sh!te — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:57:03 +0000

Hey, thanks for all of the links, Deaf David! :idea: ("Hey, Dave's not hear, man!") :wink: :lol:

RE: slide tunings

Deaf David — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:08:54 +0000

I'd start with these two sites. In the mean time, I'll see if I can round up Boz, hisself, to get over here.

http://cigarboxguitar.com/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cigarboxguitars/

http://www.schoenguitars.com

http://www.richardjohnston.com

http://www.rollietussing.com

RE: slide tunings

Caevan O'Sh!te — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:21:57 +0000

Hey, now you've got my interest and curiousity...

When I was a young kid, about nine years old, I wanted to try to build one of these; but I couldn't find any good, solid info or help. The most I got was some used acoustic guitar strings from an old gospel/country yodeler guy I crossed paths with... nice enough of him, but not much good to me!

The only "real" guitar that I got my hands on at that time was so wretchedly bad, with serious cheese-cutter action and a twisted, warped warclub of a neck, that it totally discouraged me from thinking I could ever learn to play, untill I was about fourteen or fifteen...

Yeah, please post any and all pics, links, instructions, plans, an introduction to The Boz, any and everything! Cool! Thanks! Maybe I'll make a few, for friends' kids... that'd be great!

RE: slide tunings

Ricochet — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:07:48 +0000

Don't see how we can get properly educated about CBGs without The Boz, hisself, being involved. Drag him on over! See if you can round up Rollie Tussing III, while you're at it. (He's still got my favorite rendition of "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground.") Rollie's gotten way into the CBG stuff lately, too.

RE: slide tunings

Deaf David — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:14:44 +0000

Hey David, I'll bet there are folks on here who don't know about CBGs. You might want to start a thread on that and enlighten them.
:D Just listen to "Among the Leaves" at the link below to see what a three stringed cigar box sounds like. If anybody is interested, I am sure ready to start posting pictures, links to building instructions, and maybe even get the Boz, hisself, over here!

I still haven't recorded anything with the Lowebow. I haven't figured out how to handle the second plug for the bass string and the resulting stereo effect from one cigar box.

RE: slide tunings

Ricochet — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:38:31 +0000

Hey David, I'll bet there are folks on here who don't know about CBGs. You might want to start a thread on that and enlighten them. :D

RE: slide tunings

Deaf David — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:23:30 +0000

I tend to be very lazy about changing tunings. I will go through spells playing only in open G, then D, then maybe a D minor. I'm not playing out, so it doesn't matter. Mainly I stay in D or G, sometimes using a capo for E or A.

But, I've recently gotten a couple of Cigar Box Guitars, one a three string, the other three "guitar" strings and one bass string on a separate neck placed close enough to reach all four strings with a slide.

On these things I find that I'm always fiddling with the tunings, just twisting the machine heads looking for something that sounds cool. Sometimes I then use a tuner to see what I've found. Its pretty fun and every new tuning opens up new possibilities.

Someday I may get adventuresome, and confident, enough to try that with my six stringers.

RE: slide tunings

Caevan O'Sh!te — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:18:02 +0000

"What the heck were you doing up at 4:54am, K?" :D
I had been asleep, with some of Bro' Diamond Dust's recommended listening downloading in slow-mo' over my 56k dial-up, and just got up to check it and musta sleep-walked on over here... y'know how it is. No, wait, it's sound-man, not sand-man, right? >yawn<

"I have to pull the slides out and try mastering 'em again." :?
Yeah, you'd BETTER! BEST get to STEPPIN' on that Mr. Sound-Man! :wink: