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Topic: violin tunings |
Sherman Willden
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2013 7:27 am |
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My youngest niece just took up violin and she said her tuning is ddad. Ok, so what other are the other violin tunings? What tuning is used on something like Bob Wills? And how about classical music violin tunings such as used on Mozart and Beethoven? Did violin tunings differ from composer to composer?
Thanks in advance;
Sherman
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 11 Feb 2013 7:58 am
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Standard violin tuning is G D A E (bass to treble). That's the tuning that would have been used by Bob Wills and just about anybody else who plays violin or fiddle. There are alternate tunings such as the one you describe, but G D A E is the standard.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2013 8:16 am
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| I've seen some American folk ("old time") music players using GDGD or AEAE. |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2013 11:53 am Re
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Brad is correct. Every one from Bob Wills to Jascha Heifetz (Heifetz had no peers) all tuned low to high GDAE.
Many including my self did what we called back then cross tuning. ADADflat to play the Black Mountian Rag in the key of A. Also crossed tuned to the key of D for a couple of other tunes. Sounded like twin fiddles. Tracy |
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Quentin Hickey
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2013 6:26 pm
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Give
Dad
An
Earfull
is how it goes around my house. |
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Gary C. Dygert
From:
Frankfort, NY, USA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 Feb 2013 4:46 pm
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What about mandolins ?
They're supposed to be tuned the same as fiddles, but they can vary too. |
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