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       TAB FROM BUDDY  | 
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       "Makin'
      Believe"  | 
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       Here's the tuning:  | 
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       1  
      E  | 
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       Here's what Buddy had to say about it:  | 
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    The
      steel I put the tuning on was a four neck Fender Stringmaster.  Like
      everybody else who was blown away by the new E to A pedal sound, I had to
      have it, and had to have it yesterday. I was about five months away from
      delivery of a new Bigsby steel, so instead of getting a drill, a saw, and
      coat hangers out, I came up with a tuning that would calm me down until my
      pedal guitar arrived.
       The first three notes are an A triad with intervals two and three inverted. That allowed me to lower the bottom two strings a whole tone and a half tone at the same time by slanting the bottom note of the bar two frets back. The space between strings one and two was for a truer slant and better intonation of the slanted triad. Thanks to Bobby Caldwell, premier guitar player from St. Louis, for sending this tidbit from the past. The singer was Jimmy Work, the band was Casey Clark's Lazy Ranch Boys, and we recorded it in 1955 in Detroit Michigan.  | 
  
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