Rasta,

With Pat Moynihan let's minimize the classified:

I haven't relistened, but the tuning was bound to have been GCGCD (2nd string raised 1/2 step from the standard G tuning). GCGCD is one of those tunings that get called (strangely, to my mind) "modal". Strange, both because tunings are pitch-clusters, not scale arrangements, and because all the scale arrangements we accompany with tunings fall into some modal-pattern (or our reconstructed guess as to which patterns were called which mode-name). The conventional major scale we call ionian and the minor scale we generally call aeolian. Why do we then leave them out of category "modal". Are we really shortening "modal" to mean those less-often used modes?

I believe I frailed rather than strummed "Pretty Polly". I certainly do now.

Guest, will you forgive me if I ask whether that could be synonymous with "Ignorance is bliss."

Hedy