FiddleNewb - Posted - 09/10/2007:  23:49:41

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had been playing a couple arrangements of bonaparte's retreat in DDAD.... i was wondering if there are any other tunes that are traditionally played in using this tuning....played around with a couple of other D tunes like durange's hornpipe and it made me wonder....curious to hear responses

..not violin but fiddle.

M-D - Posted - 09/11/2007:  00:23:59

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Dry and Dusty and Midnight on the Water are two of the better known in this tuning, but there are a lot of D tunes that can be adapted. Play around with it and surprise yourself.

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Music is found in the space between the notes -- in the silence between the chords. Get your spaces right, and you've got it. ~ Albert Greenfield

ladymuse - Posted - 09/11/2007:  01:06:09

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just to drive anyone else nuts on tunings - if they are new to it -

Some notes to drive you nuts I believe this was from the california Bluegrass Assoc, although this was emailed to me -

GDAE is known in some North American Old-Timey fiddling circles as Eye-Talian tuning, - the implication
being that it is only one of many possibilities.

Other tunings include:

FCGD = Cajun Tuning (one whole
step down from GDAE)

GDGB = Open G Tuning

GDGD = Sawmill Tuning

GDAD = "Gee-Dad"

DDAD = Dead Man's Tuning, or Open

D Tuning, or Bonaparte's Retreat Tuning, or "Dee-Dad"
ADAE = Old-Timey D Tuning

AEAE = High Bass, High Counter (orHigh Bass, High Tenor)
similar to Sawmill Tuning

AEAC# = Black Mountain Rag Tuning,
Calico Tuning, or Open A Tuning

AEAD for Old Sledge, Silver Lake
EDAE for Glory in the Meeting House
EEAE for Get up in the Cool

Jen

OTJunky - Posted - 09/11/2007:  07:08:44

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EDAE is also often used for "Say Old Man"

-OTJ
"I can barely fiddle on four strings. Why would I want five?"

Henke - Posted - 09/11/2007:  09:34:26

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I use Ddad-tuning and Ddae-tuning alot, I really love to drone away and dont do so much fingering.
In this tuning (Ddad and Ddae) i play bonaparte´s retreat, kingdom come, boatsman and ways of the world. I also do alot of tunes wich I originally did in standard tuning in this one.

carroll - Posted - 09/11/2007:  12:47:43

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I recall the "Hangman's Reel" being played in "Dead Man's" tuning - seems appropriate, no?

I don't recall the actual tuning: I am pretty sure the E is tuned down, but don't remember wether it was D or C#.

fiddledan - Posted - 09/11/2007:  13:39:02

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quote:

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Originally posted by FiddleNewb

had been playing a couple arrangements of bonaparte's retreat in DDAD.... i was wondering if there are any other tunes that are traditionally played in using this tuning....played around with a couple of other D tunes like durange's hornpipe and it made me wonder....curious to hear responses

..not violin but fiddle.

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Washington's March is a great one in that tuning. Played by Edden Hammons on volume 1 of his collections. Also Midnight on the Water was written in that tuning.

Playing around with it is cool. Some work others don't. Try em.

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FiddleNewb - Posted - 09/11/2007:  17:11:14

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thanks for the input so far everyone.....i enjoy noodling around with this tuning cause of all the great drone possibilities and overtones....i love that stuff.....i remember hearing FiddleDan say during a performance in Abq that if you play the fiddle right you can hear the pipes in it....i definitely like that sound....ps thanks for posting the fiddle versions of your old time festival tunes on the mel bay site....the best begginer material ive come across so far...

..not violin but fiddle.

bsed - Posted - 09/11/2007:  18:40:02

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quote:

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Originally posted by OTJunky

EDAE is also often used for "Say Old Man"

-OTJ
"I can barely fiddle on four strings. Why would I want five?"

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It is in my notes that Tommy Jarrel tuned to EDAE for the tune Sail Away Ladies.
Can anybody confirm?

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-Dwight Shroot

davers - Posted - 09/24/2007:  12:32:58

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Hey guys..I'm a noob to alternate tunings..could someone let me know if it's tuning "down" or "up" on the above tunings!!

Thanks,

Dave

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