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I removed this section. Please provide reliable sources before replacing material. Thanks! Kiefer.Wolfowitz 22:32, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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• CGCGCE - used by Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) acoustic guitar on "Question" ("Question of Balance" LP). Also used extensively by John Butler.
• Ki onwards, he started to tune his six string guitars down a half step (BF#BF#BD#) or a whole step (BbFBbFBbD). Townsend has said many times that he got the idea to use this tuning for his own material after learning the song "Friends" by Led Zeppelin

• CGCFCE - used by Nick Drake in the song Pink Moon.[1]

• CGCGCE♭ - open C minor tuning, which produces a C minor chord. Used by Laurence Juber on "The Age of Rhythm", from Al Stewart's Between the Wars.

• CGCE♭GC - open C minor tuning, which produces a C minor chord. Used by Niko Wenner on the Oxbow songs: A Winner Every Time; Time Gentlemen, Time; It's the Giving Not the Taking; etc. Also used by Gojira on the song "The Art of Dying" from The Way of All Flesh (album).

• CGCGCD - C modal tuning (Csus2), analogous to DADEAD. Used by
  Ani Difranco in “Falling Is like This” from Out of Range, by Nic Jones in “Canadee I O” from Penguin Eggs, and very frequently by Jim Tozier.^[2]

• CGCGCF - C modal tuning (Csus4), analogous to DADGAD. Used frequently by Kelly Joe Phelps^[3] and occasionally by John Renbourn.

• CACGCE (Open C 6th) - used by
  Bron-Yr-Aur" (Physical Graffiti) and "Poor Tom", (Coda
  )

• CGCGGE (Open C doubled 5th) - used by Soundgarden on songs "Pretty Noose" and "Burden in My Hand" (Down on the Upside) and "Head Down" and "Half" (Superunknown)

• The British band Aliases, formed by ex-
  SikTh
  member Graham "Pin" Pinney, uses Open C tuning on several songs.

• CECGCC - used by Bad Company on "Can't Get Enough."

• CGCEGC - used by Elliott Smith on "Ballad Of Big Nothing," "See You Later," and "Independence Day."

• CGEGCC - used by Bon Iver on "Skinny Love."

• CGCEGD - used by Haunted Shores and Periphery on "Scarlet".

• CGCGCC (Open C5) - used by Fair to Midland on much of their songs.^[4] They also tune it down 1/2 step (BF#BF#BB).

• CGCGGC - tuned up half a step to a C#, used by needtobreathe on "Something Beautiful", from their album The Outsiders.

1. ^ Healy, Chris. "Pink Moon". Nick Drake Files. Mikael Ledin. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
2. ^ Guitar tuning C-G-C-G-C-D
3. ^ Kelly Joe Phelps tunings
4. ^ "Interview with Fair to Midland".^{[self-published source?]}

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(changed formatting....) Kiefer.Wolfowitz 16:47, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did Mick Ralphs have a multi-scale guitar? (Or was the low C never played?) Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:40, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]