guitar tunings

Subject: guitar tunings
From: fogie
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 03:13 AM

Anyone know the guitar tuning for "the old Cotswold legbar" on the mother of all morris? The tune is in D but possibly using a capo.

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 12:08 PM

why not try a few, maybe dadgad, or dadgbd

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 05:02 PM

Or even DADF#AD

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Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 07:50 AM

I find daDf#ad, pretty satisfactory, fairly easy for thumbpicking a melody which might possibly suit this tune if its a morris tune.

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: GUEST,fogie
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 12:53 PM

I'm playing it in dropped D, which is reasonable,but not as "chordal" as the tune sounds on record neither does it seem to work in dagdad I wondered if it was one of those awfully clever tunings that Martin Simpson and Chris Wood use.

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: GUEST,fogie
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 12:58 PM

when I said chordal I meant more "open tuned"

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 01:01 PM

well another possibility could be dadgcd,dgdgbd[this is really a g tuning]

Subject: RE: guitar tunings
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 01:04 PM

or cgcgcd perhaps capoed at second fret