Michael Cash wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:24:35 +0900, Brett Robson
> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
>>Raj Feridun wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:05:38 +0900, Brett Robson
>>><deep_m_m@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I was serious. Had it been a hammered dulcimer I would have bought it. 
>>>>>They have a mandolin and banjo as well; I'm very tempted by both.
>>>
>>>>I thought about getting a mandolin and tuning it in a guitar 
>>>>tuning, but I would end up playing "Losing My Religion" non-stop. 
>>>>They are usually tuned in 4ths like a violin but you could tune 
>>>>in 5ths.
>>>
>>>As a professional violinist I can assure you the violin's strings are
>>>in perfect 5ths: G, D, A and E.
>>>
>>>Raj
>>>
>>As a non profesional guitar hack I can console myself that 
>>guitars are in fact tuned in 4ths, E A D G, which is the same 
>>backwards! If I turn my bass upside down it becomes a violin?
> 
> An Australian in his natural state, upending a fifth.

Would take more than five IMO. Unless they were drinking from pitchers 
or sumthin. Xmas Eve in the bar and half the crowd were Austrian 
teachers of Japanese up here during their summer break for a refresher 
course. I looked out into the main bar just after midnight, and every 
single person dancing on the tables was Austrian. Weren't dancing very 
well though.

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