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. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
