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  2. Barney McKenna - Wikipedia

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    Barney used GDAE tuning on a 17-fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle/mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE-tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.

  3. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player. Barney used GDAE tuning on a 19-fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle/mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE-tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.

  4. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used tuning is A-E-A-E. Likewise banjo players in this tradition use many tunings to play melody in different keys. A common alternative banjo tuning for playing in D is A-D-A-D-E. Many Folk guitar players also used different tunings from standard, such as D-A-D-G-A-D, which is very popular for Irish music.

  5. Gerry O'Connor (banjo player) - Wikipedia

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    Gerry O'Connor (born 21 July 1960 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the Wall Street Journal) said, Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment "the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music". [1] He also plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and tenor ...

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Irish : G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4; US US via Africa Irish tuning same as octave mandolin tuning Banjo, Plectrum 4 strings 4 courses. C 3 G 3 B 3 D 4. Chicago Tuning: D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. US via Africa Baryton: 17 strings 17 courses Two ranks. Bowed rank: A 1 D 2 G 3 C 3 E 3 A 3 D 4. Plucked rank: A 2 D 3 E 3 F ♯ 3 G 3 A 3 B 3 C ♯ 3 D 4 E 4. Europe (Germany?)

  7. The 30 best Irish songs to sing at the pub this St ... - AOL

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    "Molly Malone" is the essential St. Patrick's Day pub song and no self-respecting Irish songs' playlist is complete without this time-honored folk tune. Period. Period. 'Danny Boy' by the Irish Tenors

  8. Irish bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    The Irish bouzouki (Irish: búsúcaí) [1] is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).The newer Greek tetrachordo bouzouki (4 courses of strings) was introduced into Irish traditional music in the mid-1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the folk group Sweeney's Men, who retuned it from its traditional Greek tuning C³F³A³D⁴ to G²D³A³D⁴, a tuning he had pioneered ...

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