On 05 Mar 2005, at 11:18 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
And John Denver is alleged to have used a scordatura tuning for his guitar, allowing him to play figurations that would have been unplayable in normal guitar tuning.
Not so unusual for guitarists.
Yes -- as Chuck said, that's a wee bit of an understatement. John Denver is hardly an anomaly. There are lots of Jimi Hendrix songs where both he and Noel Redding tune their entire instruments down a half step, "drop D" tuning was more standard than not for 1990's Seattle grunge bands (and is still widely used), Joni Mitchell has probably used more than fifty different alternate tunings in her songs over the course of her career, and pretty much everyone uses capos at one point or another.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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