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Although the other thing about DT is that he changes equipment pretty regularly; he was involved in the early development of the Glissentar, but never really used it much due to his dissatisfaction with the compensated bridge and what he felt to be low-quality tuners. -t- ps: Here's something from the old Torn list 6 years ago (with a clue about his preferred tuning at the end): DT wrote in December 2002: >< http://www.godinguitars.com/godinglissentarp.htm > yes; i was involved in the prototyping of the glissentar. at the time, i was unhappy with: 1) the low-quality of the tuners, and 2) the use of a compensated bridge..... i had a very hard time w/the glissentar; it seemed to me (at the time) to be somewhat half-baked, and more like a fretless-bass type-sound than oud-like: (partially to do w/the gtr string length): i no longer use it: i'll stick w/the actual oud! on that note: i'll be receiving a new oud from luthier yaroub med fadel (tunisia) in late february, and am *very* excited to play it! while it is being built in the modern munir bashir/new iraqi style --- w/3 elliptical soundholes, no rosettes, strings ending at *body*-end (rather than at the bridge), etc--- it will be a 6-course, 11-string instrument (unlike m. bashir's 7-course, 13-string instruments), with a 60cm string-length..... and the lowest string will be at the bottom, in a more traditional arabic tuning than master bashir's. --- On Sun, 10/5/08, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote: > 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.