Larrivee L 03 for lower tunings or open tunings

[ozziebluesman]

Hey there again,

Dose anyone here de tune their L 03 to say open D or concert pitch two steps low. My music these days is playing my Weissenborn in open D so my next acoustic guitars I would like to tune down. I thought the Larrive L body size would be a good guitar to do this? Any experiences out there? Also medium gauge strings might be a good choice for this type of tuning. Any thoughts?

Thanks for your attention

Cheers

Ozzie

[unclrob]

I play in all sorts of lower open tunings no problem.

[hal537]

Ozzie, I'm playing a piece in open C at present and it sounds great on my SD.  Don't see why it shouldn't also sound good on an L. And I use lights. 

[Denis]

Hey there again,

Dose anyone here de tune their L 03 to say open D or concert pitch two steps low. My music these days is playing my Weissenborn in open D so my next acoustic guitars I would like to tune down. I thought the Larrive L body size would be a good guitar to do this? Any experiences out there? Also medium gauge strings might be a good choice for this type of tuning. Any thoughts?

Thanks for your attention

Cheers

Ozzie

Hey Ozzie,

First off, welcome to the forum.  It's a pretty nice place to hang around.

I've had my L-03 for about 7-8 months now and it's just starting to open up a bit.  I use it for all sorts of open tunings.  I have videos up at MySpace if you click on the little earth icon under my ID on the left.  The tune called After the Battle is in open Gmin and the re-arranged version of Led Zep's That's the Way is in open G.  I also keep my guitars tunes down a semitone from concert pitch all the time.  It sounds great in every tuning I've ever used including dropped D, open D, DADGAD...etc

I had been using mediums on it, like on the videos, but I've recently switched to light gauge due to the fact that when I play a gig, by the end of the night the mediums were really doing a number on my fingertips.  I also find that the light gauge strings require a bit less of an attack to really get the full tone out of them.  But it sounded great with mediums too.

[DrLeeDetroit]

I sometimes use CGDGAD tuning on my L03. I tried it after listening to some of El McMeen's music -- he uses it a lot. I find that it sounds fantastic on the L03, although I am not all that adept at it (yet?). I have stuck with lights on mine.

--Lee

[bluesman67]

I love my L in tuned down open tunings.