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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Ann ("Music from True Vine"). I read somewhere that Seeger picked up this tuning from an old country banjo player he encountered on his travels. Later he ran into that man again and learned that the tuning was an accident; the 5th string peg had been slipping. Seeger uses the "E" as a melody note, very effectively. gDGAD "Willie Moore" G/D Tuning This produces a cross between a G-chord (DGBD) and a D-chord (DF#AD). I don't know if it is traditionally called the "Willie Moore" tuning; Art Rosenbaum (in "Old-Time Mountain Banjo") suggested that this song falls into it naturally. George Gibson calls this the "Moonshiner" tuning, and says it's good for songs like Knoxville Girl, as well as Moonshiner.Gaither Carlton, Pretty Saro ("The Watson Family Tradition"). Pete Seeger, Jinny Git Around ( "How to Play..."). Barry Hall, Peggy-O ("Virtuoso 5-string Banjo"). Morgan Sexton, Little Sparrow ("Rock Dust"). (Although the liner notes say Sexton is playing this in fCFCD, key of F, I'm 99 & 44/100% sure he's in gDGAD; and certainly in the key of G. Anyway, a very beautiful performance.) Bob Clayton, Bill Cheatham (Tab, BNL, Jan 1980). f#DGAD A "Dock Boggs" D tuning Though there are more recorded examples of this tuning in the Dock Boggscanon than I've found elsewhere, Dock clearly didn't "invent" it. GeorgeGibson lists it as a variant of the "Moonshiner" gDGAD tuning; he plays init a version of Texas Rangers that he learned from Mel Amburgey, a KnottCounty old-timer.Dock Boggs, Danville Girl ("His 12 Original Recordings" and "Dock Boggs Vol 2"). Dock Boggs, Pretty Polly ("His 12 Original Recordings"; "Dock Boggs"). Dock Boggs, Glory Land ("Dock Boggs Vol 2"). Dock Boggs, Cuba; Prayer of a Miner's Child ("Dock Boggs Vol 3"). John Hilston, Bonaparte's Retreat ("A Tribute to Tommy Jarrell"). Molly Tenenbaum, Little
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