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 Roman Giza - Major 3rds Tuning 
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Post Roman Giza - Major 3rds Tuning
I've been meaning to post this, but it keeps slipping my mind.

I recently returned from Spain. While in Madrid, we went to go visit Museo del Prado. As we were walking in, I could've sworn I heard a Stick. I looked around and saw a Stickist busking!!!!!!! I swear God put him there.

So past the initial shock, I went to talk to him and told him I was a Stickist. It was difficult because Roman Giza is from Poland, and speaks Polish, Spanish, and very little English. I speak really awful Spanish, and have a friend that speaks a little bit better Spanish, so we had a fun Spanglish conversation. He let me try his Stick. It was an old one; an Ironwood I believe. The weirdest thing was that as soon as I strapped it on, I realized that it was tuned really wacky. He said it was tuned in straight across Major thirds. It was uncrossed, and all Major thirds. I had no idea how to play it so I felt like a total idiot, but it was still awesome to meet another Stickist in another country. He had an amazing version of "Flight of the Bumblebee", "Take Five", and a cool swung version of "Birdland."

So I guess my question is, has anyone met this guy? Also, does anyone have any experience with Major thirds tuning? The more I think about it, the more intuitive it seems. All the chord patterns seem to be really close together, but I really like my crossed 5ths/4ths.

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Post Re: Roman Giza - Major 3rds Tuning
I emailed back and forth a couple of years ago with a Stick player who tuned in 3rds (can't recall his name). I think it was here on Stickist.com but on the old forum. I had these pages Bookmarked:

http://lilytears.com/arts/music/guitar/ ... o/3rds.htm
http://v2p0.m3guitar.com/
http://www.ralphpatt.com/Tune.html

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Just remembered the discussion I was referring to, not on this forum, but if it's okay to post, it was here, and Gary Openhill was the guy I spoke with at length on M3 tuning:

http://www.tappistry.org/forum/showthre ... ght=thirds

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Interesting idea for tuning. not taken up much though is it? Anyone seen a chart anywhere with the note layout?

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Post Re: Roman Giza - Major 3rds Tuning
Hi Kris, You must be "Drinkwater"? If so did you ever try those guitar tuning experiments.
I am just interested because I have an old acoustic that I want to invert the strings
and up until now tune in fourths or fiths I am not sure but the idea would be that
it would become half of a Stick or the bass side. Any thoughts?

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That's Tom Drinkwater, not me. Try PM'ing him at that site, he's a good guy to talk with.

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And here he is in all his busking goodness.
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