[Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops - and altered tunings

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Phil Gazell" 
<philgazell@xxxx> wrote:
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I see Charlie at the Nashville Predator Hockey games, (when they are 
not on strike) and he told me that he was using CT SP 20s almost all 
the time. 

======Winslow:

Ah, well, you have it from the horse's mouth. It certainly makes 
sense. I've been playing around with CT for the last several months 
and finding all sorts of cool things that it can do chordally, 
especially with wide split intervals. Putting it in just tuning makes 
the chords absolutely huge.

======P.T.:

He may have meant that was what he used live, since it's quite appear 
that he uses whatever WORKS when he's in the studio. He also said 
that Jimmy Gordon had sent him an altered tuning that he was having 
fun with.

======Winslow:

I wonder if it's the same one Jimmy gave me a couple of years ago. 
That's my other favorite alternate tuning; I call it Jimmy Gordon's 
Maple Sugar tuning. It's like having a D-harp in the first six holes 
and an A-harp on the top. Almost identical to my so-called 
combination tuning but with one tiny difference that makes a huge 
impact (he came up with it independently and owes nothing to me). 
Jimmy designed it for second/first (second position in the bottom and 
first up top), but I prefer to play it in first/twelfth, though I'm 
starting to explore fifth/fourth as well.

Winslow