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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
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 Posted - 01/31/2007 : 8:16:34 PM
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He nani no!
Does anyone know if that little guitar is in standard tuning or something higher?
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 10:06:55 AM
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Originally posted by Fran Guidry
Jesse, I just checked - Marty starts off saying "Give me a D" and then appears to me to be playing in the key of D. If I'm correct about the chords he's using, he's in standard tuning.
Fran
WOW! Marty Robbins AND Jerry Byrd! Indeed, Fran, Marty is playing D chords. Jerry is in a C6th tuning, I believe. note how he starts on the second fret to play the first D chord, and the 4 chord is on the 7th and the 5 chord is on the 9th. I've got to copy this video and steal a few licks from the master! I'd like to see all of "Maui Chimes". To get to an A7 tuning, all he has to do is tune the C to a C#. The C6 tuning, from bottom to top is: G (flat 7th for A) E G A C E, so he moves the C to C# and off he goes. |
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Basil Henriques
Lokahi
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Basil Henriques
Lokahi
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2007 : 01:32:54 AM
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There WAS at one time some doubt as to whether the guitar he played in the Marty Robbins "Drifter" series was just a "Prop" borrowed for the shoot and not even played "Live" :- Well, the 'Playing Live' has been discussed and "Put to Bed" so to speak.
Definitive proof is in this video that the reso WAS a seven string, and the fact that Jerry's preference was for seven string tunings would lead one to believe that the guitar he played was his own.
(I don't think seven string resos would be a very common prop around the TV studios in the mid 60's !)
http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/assets/sevenstring.mov |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 07/27/2007 : 09:22:50 AM
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Originally posted by Basil Henriques
There WAS at one time some doubt as to whether the guitar he played in the Marty Robbins "Drifter" series was just a "Prop" borrowed for the shoot and not even played "Live" :- Well, the 'Playing Live' has been discussed and "Put to Bed" so to speak.
Definitive proof is in this video that the reso WAS a seven string, and the fact that Jerry's preference was for seven string tunings would lead one to believe that the guitar he played was his own.
(I don't think seven string resos would be a very common prop around the TV studios in the mid 60's !)
http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/assets/sevenstring.mov
I didn't notice how many strings when I looked at the video. I'll have to look at your links when I get home tonight. Jerry preferred 8 string steels, because they were hot when he was in Nashville, and the tunings on 8 strings permit more flexibilty when gigging. If it is a 7 string, it probably is what was called a "shoBro", made by Shot Jackson staring in the late 40's. His (and Jules Ah See's etc) B11 tuning is actually an A6 on the top 4 strings, with an E on the top (F# A C E, going up). This is what you need to do "How'd Ya Do" and "Sand". I put a G on the top of my G13 tuning so I can play "How'd Ya Do" in C, like Gabby did (he used an 8 string as well - look at him playing in his yard in Waimanolo on the Sons of Hawaii video) and listen to "Blue Hawaiian Moonlight" on the Gabby Band V1 (although he overdubs himself twice - 3 steels for the price of 1!). I'm torn on which tuning I'm going to use on my Frypan 8 - probably C13. |
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Basil Henriques
Lokahi
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 07/27/2007 : 8:42:02 PM
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No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 07:05:28 AM
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Originally posted by noeau
This is awesome. You are one heck of a resource. Mahalo
Awesome, indeed! Yes, that's it. The tuning listed is B11. Note that he is playing a Fender double 8 Stringmaster, my steel of choice for gigs on page 11, then a single 8 Stringmaster on page 15. I got my tab from the Jerry Byrd course. |
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Basil Henriques
Lokahi
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 2:16:51 PM
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Actually slipry1 it's two delux 8's BUT I have just acquired a 26" scale length twin 8 Stringmaster Mk 1 in bad shape, BUT it will live again.
This is another of my non pedal ones,
taken on our last visit to Kaneohe 
Some good reading here on the history of slack key and Hawaiian Guitar. http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/assets/Slack%20Key%20etc%20PDFs/ |
Edited by - Basil Henriques on 08/14/2007 10:20:19 PM |
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