Nick, I recently bought a Dulcimer and learned "Case of You" and "All I Want", which is what it sounds like you're trying to learn based on your tunings. I tuned WAAYY down at first and it sounded fine, but it's hard to keep every note where it should be with standard strings. I noticed that with the bass string so loose it would easily bend and get out of tune in my chord shapes, although a more experienced player undoubtedly could nail it. I play a 3 string Dulcimer and so 2 of my G's are the same note. I recently replaced the bass string with an acoustic guitar's A-string which helped with the taughtness, and the high G with a mandolin string. So now I'm playing in 3 octaves of G. It sounds really cool in my opinion and helps to echo some of the guitar accompaniment in Joni's songs. They're beautiful songs and I hope you and your wife enjoy singing them!
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