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Saddam's special tuning?

20 Jun 03 - 09:33 AM (#969672)
Subject: Sadam's special tuning?
From: GUEST,banjoman

Someone suggested that I try tuning my guitar in DADGAD - I must have misheard him or been listening to the news at the time and accidentaly tuned to BAGDAD - Try it for yourself - some weird and wonderful effects. You may have to experiment a bit with tuning some strings an octave below normal. Dosn't work too well on my banjo, but then nothing does according to my famil.


20 Jun 03 - 10:21 AM (#969703)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: TIA

Of course it doesn't work on your 4 or 5 string banjo. Try one of those banjitar thingies.


20 Jun 03 - 10:24 AM (#969707)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: Songster Bob

Try DADGAB -- Arabic is written right-to-left anyway.

Bob


20 Jun 03 - 02:35 PM (#969832)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: GUEST,banjoman

Thanks Bob - what happens if I am a left handed player?


20 Jun 03 - 02:44 PM (#969839)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: Murray MacLeod

Previous thread on BAGDAD tuning


20 Jun 03 - 04:08 PM (#969873)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: GUEST

Utah Phillips was telling the BAGDAD tuning joke before Daddy Bush's first Gulf War.


21 Jun 03 - 12:31 AM (#970057)
Subject: RE: Sadam's special tuning?
From: LadyJean

Doulgas Fairbanks was the Thief of Bagdad before Saddam Hussein was even thought of. He was also better looking.