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Title: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by steel driving hammer on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 1:34pm

Been searching on Google and haven't found much at all about Open G Tuning like who was the 1st to play in that tuning.

Any info would be appreciated and if there is any rock and roll bands who played Open G before the Stones, like Ry Cooder.

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by steel driving hammer on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 1:58pm

BTW, I have my guitar tuned to Open G and can play most any song on it that not intended for the wonderful Open G sound.

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by Edith Grove on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 2:04pm

http://jasobrecht.com/blues-origins-spanish-fandango-and-sebastopol/

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by steel driving hammer on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 2:11pm

Edith, you are one of the best, thanks for that read.

Cheers my brother.

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by dadrob on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 4:21pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsnP56TrEY

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by nankerphelge on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 8:13pm

Fascinating read EG.

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by FPM on Jan 17^th, 2014 at 2:41am

Yes, a great read! I first read that story in a Keith interview years ago, although he theorized that up to a certain point banjos were the cheapest instrument in the sears catalog, and when guitars became cheaper ($5 or less) all the poor blacks began buying them instead and used the same tunings they'd learned from their banjo-playing forebears. Fascinating stuff. And really odd too, because I JUST tuned my 1934 Sears Supertone to an open G tuning right before I stopped by here to see what was new, at 3:30 am.

WEIRD!

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by open-g on Jan 17^th, 2014 at 9:41pm

steel driving hammer wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 1:58pm:

BTW, I have my guitar tuned to Open G and can play most any song on it that not intended for the wonderful Open G sound.

Same here mate. I quit using standard tuning (nearly) completely. open D and E on some guitars.

Thanks EG, for the interesting read.

Title: Re: Who started/invented the Open G Tuning? Ry Cooder?
Post by steel driving hammer on Jan 22^nd, 2014 at 11:25am

Edith?