When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - JAPANESE knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove drumsticks or screwdrivers under strings to scheme NEW noises, SURE. But initially, open tuning was a technique used to MAKE our cheap guitars sound better. It wasn't academic or conceptual.

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