accoustic

Subject: accoustic
From: GUEST,Liam
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 03:11 AM

what are the tunnings that martin carthy uses, can anyone shed a light on this for me.

Subject: RE: accoustic
From: Zebedee
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 05:26 AM

Liam,

He's used a number of tunings. He used to mainly use DADEAE but more recently seems to have settled on CGCDGA (you'll need heavy gauge strings for that)

There's Martin's excellent song book "Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music" which gives the tunings to many of his best known songs, and where he explains how his playing evolved to using particular tunings. The book also has tab for some tunes.

Also there's a video which although very cheaply produced is excellent, and comes with a booklet of tabs. Can't remember the title offhand but a search at somewhere like Amazon should find it.

Is there a particular song you want to play?

Ed

Subject: RE: accoustic
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 05:28 AM

Tut-tut! One "c" in "acoustic"!

Subject: RE: accoustic
From: Zebedee
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 05:31 AM

Details of the video can be found here.

Ed

Subject: RE: accoustic
From: mousethief
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 11:41 AM

On the contrary, there are TWO c's in acoustic.

Subject: RE: accoustic
From: RichM
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 01:01 PM

...and a b flat....