The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33443   Message #447601
Posted By: Chicken Charlie
23-Apr-01 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: 'Mountain Modal Tuning'?
Subject: RE: 'Mountain Modal Tuning'?
Bedubya--

You mean we were serious? Oh, sorry.

Anita Kermode (zeppmusic.com/banjo/aktuning.htm) suggests that "Cluck Old Hen," "Pretty Polly," "Shady Grove," "Little Sadie," "The Cuckoo" and "East Virginia" may be performed in this key, in addition to "Sugar Baby," "Boll Weevil" and "Chilly Winds."

Muhammed al-Aasif had some success with a related BAGDAD tuning, but all his masters were destroyed in the bombing, and he has never played since. War is Hell.

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