GUEST Gibsonboy: That's exactly why I like the partial capo. I use standard tuning almost all the time. At one time in the past, I got into DADGAD to the point of carrying two guitars around some of the time, so I wouldn't have to retune. At this point, though, there are only a few songs that I really think sound better with the DADGAD sound - mostly Irish or fake Irish. And I like getting that sound with those songs, but not enough to haul two instruments, or retune during a song swap or a performance.

I have listened to some singers who used a whole lot of different tunings and spent have their set changing tunings. It gets old very quickly.

Peter