I am sure, Rick, that you use it in a different sort of way than Beamer does.

I used to love to fool around with those slack-key tunings, but, being the wonk that I am, I tried every one that I could find, and after a while, I got overloaded and couldn't remember which tuning I played which tunes in--

For years, I have been trying to figure out the tuning that Gabby Pahinui used for a version of Aloha Oe from about 1958 or so--He opens on what seems like a big G13 chord, but I've never been able to figure what the open chord was-Talk about the search for the Holy Grail--

Mark Cohen may be able to confirm this, but Bob Gleason, who made my ukes for me, tells me that the contemporary slack key players in the Islands gravitate toward Ovations--Sort of the guitar equivalent of "Spam"--