RE: Altered Tunings

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

<<<Chris Michalek wrote:

"FWIW, while interesting,I find altered tuned harps to be mostly
useless.'
D.M. Fairweather replied:

Does that mean you don't have any use for chords that aren't available on a 
Richter
tuned diatonic?>>>>

If you played a lot of Irish on diatonic you'd change your mind about 
altered tunings - you need Paddy Richter!  Also, see Tony Eyers' site about 
interesting altered tunings for bluegrass/fiddle tunes.  I don't do much 
with chords either.

Steve


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