Michael Cash wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:46:37 +0900, Declan Murphy
> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
> 
>>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.
> 
> I hope I haven't caused an inadvertent whoosh with an Americanism. Are
> we talking about the same "fifth"?

I very much doubt that we are talking about the same "fifth", especially 
since I'm upending my seventh.


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