Mooneys guitar

[Ben Godard]

Hello everyone. I’ve been watching a lot of Waylon’s old stuff lately and I was watching Mooney play the Dukes of hazzard theme on his other neck (not the E9). His E9 neck is on the back as most of us know but I never see him play the front neck except on this song. His front neck is not a standard C6 I don’t think. The song was in G and he was doing lots of open string hammer-one and pull-offs with the bar. What is the tuning and setup on that neck. Is it an open G tuning

[Bill Fisher]

G-B-D-G-B-D-G-B-D-G.

Bill

[Bill Fisher]

Low, to high, by the way.

Bill

[K Maul]

I always wondered HOW low and HOW high?

[Joe Bill Moad]

Is that tuning like a play all filler tuning or specifically for that one song?

Respectfully:

Jbm

[Bill Fisher]

That tuning is what Mooney called his Dobro tuning.

Bill

[Bill Fisher]

It was a permanent tuning.

Bill

[Frank Freniere]

I always wondered HOW low and HOW high?

Knowing his string gauges would be helpful.

[Bill Fisher]

Discount that low-to-high reference on the above Mooney Dobro tuning. It may be correct, but there is a chance it is the reverse of that. I checked my notes from Ralph, and he did not forward me a chart for that tuning, or reference any string numbers, for same. So, I just don't know.

Bill

[D Schubert]

Don't some folks call that cajun tuning?

[Raybob Bowman]

I always wondered HOW low and HOW high?

Knowing his string gauges would be helpful.

I would think a standard C6 set of strings would work fine. The low G is one step lower than the A note of the Do-wah pedal. The high G is half step lower than E9 G#.

[David Mason]

I should probably just get this tattood as much as I use it:
Bob's allpurpose universal string gauge thingamabob:

https://www.b0b.com/infoedu/gauges.htm

you have to nudge things around sometimes but it's a good start. You can straighten it up and print some out, keep them around.

[Bobby D. Jones]

Standard Do-Bro tuning is.
6-G
5-B
4-D
3-G
2-B
1-D

The 6th string is G higher than a standard 6 string E
Jerry Douglas lowers to standard 6 string E. This gives him bottom 3 strings Major top 3 Minor.

[Mark Eaton]

Standard Do-Bro tuning is.
6-G
5-B
4-D
3-G
2-B
1-D

The 6th string is G higher than a standard 6 string E
Jerry Douglas lowers to standard 6 string E.This gives him bottom 3 strings Major top 3 Minor.

You must be thinking of Greg Booth with the 6th string dropped to E, he uses it all the time. I don’t recall Jerry ever using that tuning, though I’m guessing he has “tried it on for size” in the past.

Mike Auldridge used it on a handful of tunes, but it was pretty rare.