NO RULES! Open D + Further Adventures in Cigar Box Guitar Tunings

The beauty of cigar box guitars is that you can try any combination of strings and tunings without judgement! In this video, Shane Speal has his Rumbler cigar box guitar tuned to a low Open D tuning (DAD) and talks about the pursuit of creativity.

Buy Shane's stubby slide bottlenecks at http://stubbyslide.com
Guitars at http://spealguitars.com
Official site: http://shanespeal.com

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Comment by Brent Briggs on January 20, 2020 at 5:38am

Thanks for another lesson Shane. Like the low down.

Comment by George Jones on April 18, 2018 at 7:04am

Thanks for the informative video on rigging a CBG for open D tuning by using the 3 lowest strings out of a set of standard guitar strings.  I also saw in your video where the bolt you had used for your bridge was positioned with the head of it closest to the lowest string which thereby worked to raise it a bit more to compensate for the increased lower string vibration on the neck (sorry - I'm an engineer/builder - and successful approaches like this to overcome problems grab my attention)... 

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