James Phillips wrote:

>I was listening to Taming the Tiger earlier, and was curious as to what
>tuning was used for the guitar on Man from Mars, as there is a guitar
>listed in the instrumental credits.......

I'd like to know this guitar tuning too!

This was the only song on the album where I couldn't figure out the
tuning. I was hoping that the TTT songbook would have it, but it didn't.

I *think* that all of the "orchestration" that was done on this track (all
the parts that sound like horns/saxes etc) was played on the VG8 in
standard tuning. I think I've heard Joni say that all the "colouring" for
the whole album was done in standard tuning, as this was the only way she
could access all the different timbres (horns, trumpet etc etc).

The main guitar part for MFM sounds like it is in an alternative tuning,
but I havn't figured out which one!

Howard



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