In case it is a common misconception: russian 7string guitar is tuned (from the 
top) d-b-g-D_B_G_D . It is in G major, rather then d minor.

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:01:04 -0700
Daniel Winheld <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, Sean- maybe it's time for you to get one of those 7-string 
> Russian guitars that has a d-minor tuning. Maybe Roman can help you 
> out. Seriously, sometimes when I'm playing my toy archlute I will 
> grab the Weiss and rather than get up, change lutes, tune, etc. I 
> will in fact just plow through- a little more slowly & carefully of 
> course- compensating for the tuning differences. The biggest most 
> frequent problem is the e/f major 2nd that occurs frequently in 
> Weiss- 2nd fret, second 2nd string against open 1st string. I am 
> learning to split finger the 2nd course on the archlute for that.



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