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bsimmers
Mar-01-2006, 10:39am
I tried emai, but it came back 'undeliverable.'
According to Grisman in Frets the Bluegrass Ramble tuning is:
GG-DD-AA-EC#

swampstomper
Mar-02-2006, 12:49am
Thanks! That's the way I heard it, but I had the two E strings reversed. So only one is re-tuned. Now back to work on it!

Markelberry
Mar-02-2006, 2:04am
WHAT RECORD CAN THAT TUNE BE FOUND ON/?

swampstomper
Mar-02-2006, 2:50am
Bear Family BCD 15423 Blue Grass 1950-1958 4-CD-Box & 48-Page Book, disc 1 of 4, first cut. It's the first recording he made for Decca after leaving Columbia because they had signed the Stanley Brothers.

catalog listing (http://www.bear-family.de/mailorder/showoneproduct.html?lang=de&p=BCD+15423)

Markelberry
Mar-02-2006, 4:45am
THANKS SWAMPSTOMPER

mandopete
Mar-02-2006, 8:07am
One can also hear this tune every week as it's the name (and theme song) to our bluegrass show on KBCS (http://www.kbcs.fm) (Seattle, WA)

Sundays, 12:00 to 3:00 (Pacific)