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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Band: No. 3 Special"). Benford discusses this major/minor tuning in BNL, May 1977. John Hermmann, Rosalee McFall, also tuned up to E, with Dirk Powell's fiddle tuned BEBE ("One Eyed Dog"). Blanton Owen's notes for "Old Originals Vol 2" say that Jont Blevins used this tuning for Reuben. f#CF#CD D7 variantDick Weissman, Blues for Dock Boggs ("Old-Time Banjo Modern Style"). cDF#AD D variantHank Schwartz, with John Cohen, Banging Breakdown ("Old Time Banjo Project"). f#ADAD D variant: "John Henry", "Dead Man's" tuningSee also g#BEBE, below.Roscoe Holcomb, Old Smokey ("The Music of Roscoe Holcomb & Wade Ward").. Greg Jowaisas, Valley Forge ("Old Time Banjo Pieces"). Bob Carlin, Payday ("Where Did You Get That Hat?"). John Les, Elkhorn Ridge (not recorded). Dwight Diller, John Henry Blues ;Washington's March ("Piney Woods"). Paul Brown, The Old Man's & Old Woman's Quarrel (Grumbling Old Man...), from Fields Ward (Tab, BNL, Aug 1994). Stu Jamieson, Georgie Buck (fretless banjo) (" Banjos, Lamas & Bagpipes"). Dwight Diller, John Henry Blues ("Harvest: West. Va. Mountain Music"). Ernie Fasse (communications to Banjo-L) has also, on his fretless banjo, been delving into this tuning, e.g. for Dance Boatman Dance; Say Darling Say; If I Lose Let Me Lose; Billy Wilson... f#DADE D variantBruce Molsky, Wild Bill Jones ("Lost Boy"). dADAD D variantSee also eBEBE.Reed Martin, Off to California ("The Young Fogies, Vol. 1"). Reed notes that the banjo on which he recorded the tune "belonged to the 'Cox' family of Hillsville VA...It was tuned to dADAD when found so it stays in that tuning." (Communicated to Banjo-L by Jeff Chumley, 23 March 97) aADAD D variantDick Weissman, Country Blues ("New Directions in Folk Music"). f#DDAD D variantTry: Mole in the Ground aDAAD D variantDick Weissman, Snowbird ("Old Time Banjo Modern Style"). aADF#A D variantJim Connor, Ragtime Annie; Columbus Stockade ("Alabama Old
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