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Ray, I love it. I am going to share this with my grandkids if that's alright with you.
I think your guitar is fretted, is this correct? It sounds great.

Mine is fretless so I can confuse myself better. It is strung very high, like a dulcimer, if they are strung very high. It's a consequence of the stick-on-top construction method. I used a digital electronic tuner to "tune" it and my wife with perfect relative pitch commented that it needed to be tuned. I promise not to sing out loud in anyone's hearing, if I can avoid it.


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yeah! good one for sure.

the neck on my new box is bending enough that it doesn't stay tuned overnight. so I get to mod it with an external truss rod on the back of the neck.
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Ray, I dropped the tuning to EBE, the neck responded by getting a little less dished. Methinks the worker-bee oriented the ash grain in the wrong direction, or it's just a pool noodle to begin with.

But I like open E a lot, it sounds less like a cloud of flying insects .. . . :lol:
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Ray, that's hilarious. but with a little stretch can you imagine the entire flight off-key :?:
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this g b e
1 - 3 - 5 ? a full cord ?
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OK! a three legged banjo eh? that's easy listening and singing truth is the best kind...

my box is EBE right now, and the noodle neck likes the looser tension. replaced the bridge with a wood nut, which lowered the action a lot. this makes it a little quieter, but also mellow. just won't work well with lots of ambient engine noise, like at take-off... thanks for the cord chart. my box is fretless, so I only get slide sounds. I listened to it for a while today and somehow the key of E suits me, although I can't figure out what it's good for. I crack myself up sometimes.

thanks for the input and samples
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Nice, Ray. Merry Christmas!
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Ray wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:57 pm B.T.T.

More experiments with a g-b-e tuned cigar box.

The chord progression is a sped-up version of "wayfaring stranger".....sort of bouncing dark and somber Am off of an Em brightened-up with Cmaj and Dmaj. The lyrics are old Hank's most famous song.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=db0dd2xc2To
good one ! i saw that same light too! but i can't play the gitar for nothing. is yours fretted?

have to get one with a fret board and lower strings. can't make a sounds with a slide, just noise. mi bad.
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Thanks! i tuned my bass like the 3 string but can't find the amp, so don't know how what that sounds like . . .

i expect to get heavenly music lessons someday, but may still sound like an oak tree hit by lightning . . .

thanks for posting the links
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my browser is having a hissey-fit with u2b, and gives this error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR which has to do with the certificates being out of date or otherwise not cooperating. which is to say, I missed the chord change, sri.
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A good fun first post 8) welcome to the fire.. :D
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