magnatone d-8

Jim Cinney · From: Tehachapi California, USA

A friend of mine has an old magnatone d-8. any recomended tunings? thought I might string it up & see what happens.

Brad Bechtel · From: San Francisco, CA

I'd probably start with C6 and E9, but it depends on what you want to play. Do a search for many other discussions and recommended tunings.
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Tim Whitlock · From: Colorado, USA

Brad is too modest to mention his own very excellent web page dedicated to non-pedal steel guitar tunings, so I will. It shows dozens of tunings and the famous players who used them. Here is the link:

http://www.well.com/~wellvis/tuning.html

In the last section at the bottom of the page is also a useful string gauge chart so you will know which strings to buy for a particular tuning.

I agree that C6 and either E9 or E13 would be a good classic combination for a D8.

Jim Cinney · From: Tehachapi California, USA

Thanks great stuff!!!.

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