Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning

Subject: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:12 AM

Phil Cooper will be amazed by the dream I had last night. He was to be executed for treason because he was playing quite a few songs with his guitar in a BAGDAD tuning. When he could actually play a tune in that tuning he was set free.

If anyone can figure a way to get practical use out of a BAGDAD guitar tuning it would be my friend Phil.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Mr Happy
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:40 AM

sounds like a BAD GAG to me.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 03:12 AM

Hey, Art, that was MY joke - (click) (although I'm sure somebody else thought of it before I did).
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 05:58 AM

People in Sheffield (UK) where I now live are known by other Yorkshire folk as dee dahs because of their accents so there is a Sheffield guitar tuning of DEEDAA or another good one is DEDBAD

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: GUEST,tuneless
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 06:05 AM

My wife use SADBAG!

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Midchuck
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 07:29 AM

My children used to ask if I could play songs in BADDAD.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Memphis Mud
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 08:01 AM

My daughter wishes I'd play more in GAGDAD.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 12:46 PM

Another tuning which stinks is DEDDOG

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: C-flat
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:08 PM

There was a gittar playin' fella,
Who was the most terribull spella,
he would tune to BAGDAD,
it was really quite sad,
so now he just sings a-kappella!

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:29 PM

With a left-hand tuned guitar, getting that BAGDAD tuning wouldn't involve too much trouble. It'd be like a stadard guitar being retuned to DADGAB - the only problem would be putting in a heavier sixth string, maybe using a spare fifth string. Whether it would be any use is another matter.

Only trouble is that, if you experiment with this, it could be seen as justifying a preemptive first strike...

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: DADGBE
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:37 PM

I heard a rumor that Mudcat got a call from the CIA. By next week Mudcat will have to require that all guitar playing members refrain from using this 'axes of evil' tuning. If you're visited by a hostile man wearing a trench coat, you'll know why. Oh, wait a minute, that was my brother-in-law.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 03:29 PM

Axis of evil tuning? Like the sound of that. I read on John Martyn's website that he used a variant of DADGAD tuning on the song Head & Heart that was BADGAD. With the usual low to high tuning, I don't know if I should tune my middle D up to G, or down to G.

So, Art, glad to hear I got a reprieve. Considering I just called both my US Senator's offices to voice my opposition to the Iraq uproar, I expect that guys in trench coats will be around anytime now.

Guess I'll get my practicing in while I can.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: clansfolk
Date: 28 Sep 02 - 02:23 PM

BADGAD - is that the same as "open SESAME" tuning?

sorry......

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Sep 02 - 03:10 PM

Am I the only Mudcatter who has actually visited Bagdad ?

Peaceful and picturesque is how I remember it, and fascinating to anyone interested in woodworking.

I have, however, never felt the slightest urge to visit Baghdad. If you had a seven string guitar and adopted the German system of notation, you could have a BAGHDAD tuning as well ....

Murray

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 01:47 PM

Meanwhile, the monkeys down at Yerkes Primate Observatory are playing in ABA DABA. It's another experiment.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 09:42 PM

Somoene has started another site about Bagdad tuning (which wouldn't be that diffucult with a left handed guitar) - so here's a link I found with a bunch of pictures and stuff about Baghdad, as a bit of a premature thread drift. (And remind us all, these are people like us.)

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 10:07 PM

I live just a few miles from Bagdad. Bagdad, Florida that is. (And it is spelled with no "h".) It is a wonderfully picturesque little town with a lot of fine old homes built during this area's timber boom back around 1900. In fact, there are no less than eight Bagdads in the US Click Here.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Dec 02 - 10:18 PM

Hey! I just took another look at that site I linked above, and there are TWO Bagdad, Pennsylvanias! One is in Erie County and one is in Westmoreland County. Sumfin stwange goin' on heah! Ya don't think one of 'em could be a secret government installation do ya? Remember the Cold War stories about a purported "American" town built in the USSR to accustom spies and such to American life? Maybe one of those Bagdad, PA's is really a mock Baghdad!

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: CraigS
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 04:57 PM

I've tried it -and it works - backwards - ie, DADGAB - could play quite a few senut siht yaw !

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Dec 02 - 05:23 PM

I mised out the blue clicky code for that site with pictures of Baghdad in my last post - so here they are (Actually I reposted it with the code, but some elf took out the wrong post. General rule is that if there are two posts that look the same, take out the first, not the second, because that might be the one with the corrected version...)

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: wlisk
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 11:06 AM

For tenor guitar's there is the EGAD tuning. Bill

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 11:59 AM

DEADED might be an interesting one, if a bit morbid.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Dec 02 - 06:21 PM

who ya gonna pin this one on? apart from the Banjo player?

BADGE tuning?

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: saulgoldie
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 10:40 AM

Refreshing, in light of the other thread on BAGDAD tuning.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: saulgoldie
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM

Oops! That would be "DADGAD."

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 11:09 AM

I've been out too much later and found my sons had retuned the guitar to BADDAD...

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 04:07 PM

Nice to see the thread again, dadgad it.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 04:35 PM

Any Oz sheep shearing songs for the BADDAG tuning?

Yea - I know - a crap idea.

"The shearings not for ewe my bonnie lassieeeeeeee OH!........."

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: BFG
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 07:17 PM

I tried BAGDAD tuning once but the thing wouldn't stay in tune - I told my pal and he reckoned it was 'sa damn strings'

BFG

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 07:37 PM

Coupla women I know play in AB FAB.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 10:24 AM

A clever friend of mine plays in EGGEAD

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 11:36 PM

You could always play in BEDGAG tuning... if you're into that sort of thing.

Subject: RE: Phil Cooper---BAGDAD tuning
From: Nick
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:44 AM

... or presumably GAGGED?

Can I get all my bad puns out in one go?

I have a friend who...

.. used to be a hippy who always tunes to:
BEADED

... only plays the guitar every 10 years and tunes to:
DECADE

... is a grafitti artist and tunes to:
DEFACE

... is a vegetarian who can't spell who tunes to:
CABAGE

... he also brings with him a string of poor relationships and tends then to tune to:
BAGAGE

... has a broken string and plays George Harrison/Eric Clapton covers who tunes to :
BADGE

... does Goon songs and Bluebottle impressions and tunes to:
DEADED

... often appears as other people and tunes to:
FACADE

... keeps having his fingerprints taken and tunes to:
DABBED

... runs a bed and breakfast and tunes to:
BEDFEE

I'm sorry. Work's quite quiet today...