I'm very new with DADGAD, Stan Rogers seemed to favor it and it did fine by him. My fingers are such trainwreck that I'm lucky to play at all. What I find with DADGAD is some very long spaces that I can't reach. I'll stick to "G" tuning on the banjo and standard with capos on the guitar.

This thing about celtic music is more troubling to me. I have sung British Isles folk music for 30 years. The songs come from all over the Isles and even parts of Franceland where they seem to have a different word for nearly everything. These song all come from the Celtic countries but apparently to some I'm not doing Celtic nusic because I'm singing and instramentalizing. Lts us don't forget that the voice was the original instrument and people who "Meerly Sing" are just as legit in the Celtic Music world as those Johnny Come Latelys who play greek instruments and tell the world they are doing Irish music.

Don