Re: "Standard Tuning" for Mandolins in the teens and twenties?
Originally Posted by
Henry Eagle
I may add that Bill Monroe (A 440) was among the first country music artists to chose his (musical) keys so he could sing well. In country music B major hadn't been very popular before him. Monroe himself rose "Blue Moon of KY" from key of A up to C on and "KY Waltz" from D to E, if I'm not mistaken.
Jimmy Martin took the credit for having WSM make this shift to a "higher and lonesomer" sound, but you know Jimmy......
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
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