"What is standard Dobro tuning? Aren't there are several different ways of tuning it? Are some better for certain types of tunes or styles of music? Thanx, Joe D.
Greetings Joe,
It depends on which type of dobro you're referring to:
A squareneck dobro, with 6 strings, is tuned in open G as follows:
G B D G B D from low to high...
Now, this is the standard bluegrass tuning; it's quite rare for a bluegrasser to deviate from this tuning...
Now, on a roundneck, they are commonly tuned to:
Open G:
D G D G B D from low to high...
Open D:
D A D F# A D
or even Open E tuning...
E B E G# B E
And the tunings go on from there...this was started with the blues tradition along with slide playing..."
