One other tuning that was new to me was shown by Billy Bright several weeks ago and Chef's house. For Bonaparte's Retreat he split the natural G course as A and D then DD AA DD. It worked really well.
M On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, mistertaterbug <[email protected]>wrote: > > Nah, that'd be good. The octave string thingy done the oldtime way? > Count me in. 'Course, I'll need to buy another mandolin now... > MTBug > > On Oct 28, 8:35 am, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have enough mandolins lying around it might be neat to through > > a natural D string on the course where the G formerly was in addition > > to the string tuned down to D. May make your head split, but would be > > a neat lil' D tuned mandolin. > > On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:42 AM, mistertaterbug wrote: > > > > > > > > > Erik, > > > Yessir, there are three octaves of D and one solitary A string. I have > > > an old fiddle tune called "Post Oak Grove" that works pretty well out > > > of that tuning too. Sounds almost regal. > > > > > Tunerbug > > > > > On Oct 27, 5:42 pm, erik berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Just cuz I was fooling around with how low I can tune my strings, > > >> when > > >> you say DDAD, are there three different D notes or two? I was > > >> trying a > > >> D(low) D(normal) AD(high) for the jig Frieze Britches the other day > > >> that was pretty wild > > > > >> erik > > > > >> On Oct 27, 2:29 pm, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> Nice Donster, > > >>> Have you tried "Midnight..." in DDAD? > > >>> Tatuh > > > > >>> On Oct 25, 7:58 pm, Don Grieser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>>> Finally got back to participating in the Mando Cafe Song A Week > > >>>> group. > > > > >>>> Midnight on the Waterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI09NhGBon4 > > > > >>>> Master Crowley's Reelhttp:// > www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDVn8KiQJQ-Hide > > >>>> quoted text - > > > > >>> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
