On the CD "Rattling Banjos" on which 25 tunes are played by O'Connor and 25 tunes played by David McNevin there are two tunings that are listed as being used. One is GDAE, presumably by McNevin, and the other tuning is CGDA by O'Connor. However that CD was recorded around 1986.Certainly on this video from around 2008
he is using G(3) / D(2) / A(1) but it would appear he is hitting low F# on the fourth fret of the 4th string which supports what Greenwiggle has written. You can see it at approxiamately the 3:00 minute mark of the video.
google Mr O,Connor's website - tunings are on there, along with string gauges, if I recollect right. I think he has a couple of banjos and uses CGDA and DGDA, also GDAE. but videos I have seen show him playing tunes in fiddle keys in a CGDA tuning (or maybe DGDA)
Gerry O Connor Tuning
Gerry O Connor Tuning
Do any of ye know what tuning Gerry O Connor normally has his banjo in??
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by banjo-craze
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
CGDA got that off youtube there
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by alim010
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
CGDA the "proper" tenor banjo tuning
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by bohemian
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
Actually, I think it is DGDA. He tunes the C string up to D on most tunes.
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by Greenwiggle
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
On the CD "Rattling Banjos" on which 25 tunes are played by O'Connor and 25 tunes played by David McNevin there are two tunings that are listed as being used. One is GDAE, presumably by McNevin, and the other tuning is CGDA by O'Connor. However that CD was recorded around 1986.Certainly on this video from around 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tf7A13_Ex8
he is using G(3) / D(2) / A(1) but it would appear he is hitting low F# on the fourth fret of the 4th string which supports what Greenwiggle has written. You can see it at approxiamately the 3:00 minute mark of the video.
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by Tony O'Rourke
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
google Mr O,Connor's website - tunings are on there, along with string gauges, if I recollect right. I think he has a couple of banjos and uses CGDA and DGDA, also GDAE. but videos I have seen show him playing tunes in fiddle keys in a CGDA tuning (or maybe DGDA)
# Posted on December 16th 2009 by Jim Younger
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
Every session I've had with Gerry he has been CGDA
# Posted on December 20th 2009 by tirvaluk
Re: Gerry O Connor Tuning
To repeat: CGDA
I had a conversation with him when he played at a venue in Sebastopal Calif a few years back...He told me CGDA
Perhaps he was wrong about his own tuning.
# Posted on January 3rd 2010 by bohemian