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Hey Jim,
I did get an off list message that said and I
found it mentioned (I forgot to check the LD archive,duh) that he
uses
DGADGC for his Glissentar. I have not tried it yet. I still have a long way to
go with the one I started on,
EABead. I am making progress on finding the notes but I still think in
guitar. It is such a wonderfully resonant instrument and I love playing it. When
looping I find it feedsback like crazy, more than my electric acoustic. I have
been using headphones to work on that. maybe some kind of rubber plugs
when amplified. Hopefully that wouldn't kill the tone to badly. It has been
a gas learning something new.
Hopefully I'll nail something to put up for ya soon. I really appreciate
the help you have been to me on this radical new trick for an old dog. I'm
saving for an electric... more on that... I would like to put my hands on
some of the ones we looked at.
peace,
j
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:43
PM
Subject: Re: Oud tunings
Jeff as you know from our initial discussions i'm using the
Turkish/Armenian Tim ref's EABead. If Torn plays standard on guitar I
would bet he uses this or possibly is torquing this one to near guitar as it's
not far away. I think however using these intervals gives some really
wonderful textures. With my guitars I largely work in DADGAD and
had givenn some thought to using DADFAD which I had found in my research
however I've been a fan of EABead in my time iwth the oud and continue to
be. At the recent NYC
Fretless Guitar Fest which I performed on both guitar and oud, another
musician/fretless player there Edward
Powell who is also an oudist in addition to being a luthier, had suggested
dropping the low E string down to B which I haven't tried as yet so tuing
BABead. I'm not sure with the nylon string how well the E to B would
tone but it might become more usful percussively from it's looseness.
Hope you are digging it...
J
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hi
Jeff,
Can't remember where/when (and this could be wrong), but I seem
to recall DT saying in an interview that (as he does on guitar) he uses
several different tunings.
You might start with these and tweak with
impunity:
Standard Egyptian/Arab: D G A D G C
Old Turkish Classical: A
D E A D G
New Turkish Classical: F# B E A D G
Turkish/Armenian: E A B
E A D
Turkish/Armenian Variant: C# F# B E A D
Standard Cumbus: D E A D
G C
This page is useful too: <http://www.oudcafe.com/stringing_and_tuning.htm>
-t-
http://www.myspace.com/nimbletunes
http://cdbaby.com/all/timnelson
http://www.youtube.com/speleman62
--- On Fri,
10/3/08, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>
wrote:
> From: Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>
>
Subject: Oud tunings
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 9:26 PM
> Just want to throw this out here, you can mail me
back
> offlist to save bandwidth.
> Does anyone know what tuning
David Torn uses? I have search
> for awhile with no luck and its hard
for me as a very new
> oudist to tell from his
recordings.
>
> thanx,
>
>
Jeff
>
>
> Out here in the Great Beyond, everything is
strange.
> The sooner you get used to that, the better off
you'll
> be.
> Allen Steele
> Galaxy
Blues
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