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Topic: When did Buddy add high D to C6th? |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 9:20 am |
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The title says it all. I'm wondering when Buddy added the C to C# lever and changed the tuning of his first string from G to D. Also, when did the community become aware of this change?
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 9:36 am
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| Buddy has written here on the Forum that he had already made the change before he recorded the black album, but that he put the high G back on his guitar for that record. When was that, 1971? (I dunno; it was before I started playing). |
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Herb Steiner
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Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 10:23 am
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In Oct. of 1977 I ran into Paul Franklin Jr. at DJ Week in Nashville and he was the first to tell me to put a D on my C6. His words: "put a D on your first string if you want to play modern music, or in a minor key."
So it was probably a well-known addition by that time amongst the progressive players of the tuning. I'm sure Paul could tell us more definitively when the change actually occurred.
Franklin, what sayest thou? 
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 12:42 pm
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No doubt Franklin will know. I had the D on top in 1977 and I was living in a cave in North Dakota.
The first solo album of Buddy's that I remember him having the D on top was the live LP recorded at ST. Louis. 1976?? Maybe.
On 2nd thought. Buddy's tribute to Bob Wills. 1975 I think. Had a D on top. That's what turned me on to it. FWIW. That LP was recorded with a D-12. Glad I didn't know that at the time I was trying to hack his licks.Would have only gotten in the way. You know the. (That ain't on my guitar excuse.)  |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 1:12 pm
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I thought I read that Buddy Emmons put the D on top in C6 after he decided that he liked the descending order F# and D# on top 2 strings gave the E9 neck. Maybe it was the other way around?
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