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#288046 - 20/09/11 08:18 PM Re: Open Tunings [Re: Lotus]
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Thanks for the replies Guys. I've been away for a few days, so not had time to respond. I'll certainly try some of your suggestions re strings.

I've been trying (Your Bright Baby Blues by Jackson Browne), but understand he uses Open F tuning FCFACF.

Anyone tried this? can this damage the neck?

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#288047 - 20/09/11 11:29 PM Re: Open Tunings [Re: BobJ]
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[quote=BobJ]I've been trying (Your Bright Baby Blues by Jackson Browne), but understand he uses Open F tuning FCFACF.

Anyone tried this? can this damage the neck? /quote]

Funnily enough a similar qustion came up in this months UK guitarist magazine.

The more you go up on the tuning the more it'll change the playing action and the more the guitar may need its set up tweaked (the same applies to tuning down of course).

So I think I would be tempted to go open E with capo 1st fret rather than tuning straight to open F as it's less of a change .... but ....

As far as open E went the magazines advice was that it should be OK unless you have heavy strings (more than 0.013-56).

It makes sense - if your guitar can stand heavier strings like 0.013-56 then a set of 9s or 10s tuned up to E (or even F for that matter) should be a strain that it can cope with.

Though the magazine did say their advice depends on the guitar - old jazz Guitars from the 40s and 50s were apparently built to take the strain of very heavy strings. I'd be less inclined to risk severe changes inn tuning on an acoustic than an electric too.

electric Guitars with vibrato are a particular sod for needing re-set up of course, especially if you like the vibrato set up to float.
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#288093 - 22/09/11 09:21 PM Re: Open Tunings [Re: Mark P]
BobJ Offline
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Thanks for the reply Mark.

I took a chance on the Open F and it sounded good. The D string seemed on the tense side though, and it certainly seemed at the end of its possible adjustment.

Funnily enough, but by intuition, I'd tried the capo on fret 1 with everything down half a step, before tweeking up to full Open F. Interestingly JB played it at Glatonbury 2010 with the Capo on Fret2, so may give this a whirl.
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