Post by fredkinbom on Dec 9, 2007 18:04:47 GMT
Just wanted to share a little tune-in-progress:
It's funny how guitars have their different strengths - I came up with this tune while playing my 1930s $81 Oahu, tuned in D format tuning (but tuned down to B-flat) - it has such a raw, earthy tone!
The lower the tuning, the warmer it sounds. It's strung with normal gauge Newtone Alohas, so you can imagine that the strings are quite slack! Today I played the same tune (in D) on my Lazy River Weiss - it didn't sound as good at all, although the Lazy River technically is a much higher quality instrument. Long live the cheap old birch boxes! 
Cheers,
Fred
It's funny how guitars have their different strengths - I came up with this tune while playing my 1930s $81 Oahu, tuned in D format tuning (but tuned down to B-flat) - it has such a raw, earthy tone!
The lower the tuning, the warmer it sounds. It's strung with normal gauge Newtone Alohas, so you can imagine that the strings are quite slack! Today I played the same tune (in D) on my Lazy River Weiss - it didn't sound as good at all, although the Lazy River technically is a much higher quality instrument. Long live the cheap old birch boxes! 
Cheers,
Fred