Sure, Seamus. Beat me up just because I changed ONE STRING (OK, the first time I played it I changed three) will ya"!!!! :-) Open G is a tuning frequently used by blues players (and others---including me).

I had an uncle who showed me how to tune a 5 string banjo when I bought one at an auction ($5.00). About a year later I bought a guitar at an auction (another $5.00!) and he wasn't around to show me how to tune it, so I just dropped the first string down and then used only the first 4 strings. Years later I found that by droping the 2 bass strings down a step that it sounced "right". Then I read in a book that Woody Guthrie experimented with Open G. Hey, man! Me and Woody---two great musical minds on the same path! How can that be wrong?

One advantage I have noticed is that other pickers in a jam circle seldom ask to borrow my guitar.

For other readers of this comment: Seamus very kindly let a rank ameture not only borrow his Tak, but he allowed me to twist the strings to suit myself. A good man, that Seamus. Later this evening I'll hoist a drop of the Bushmill Black that I brought back with me in his honor.