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Originally Posted by wcap
And it seems I read that one of the early pioneers/developers of DADGAD tuning was trying to come up with a tuning to facilitate the playing of music from the Middle East!
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Indeed: Davy Graham invented it as a way of making guitar sound more like the oud. (Strangely, because the oud is tuned quite differently.)
As I said in an earlier post, he wanted a modal sound to highlight the similarities between the folk musics of different cultures (at least Celtic and Arabic).
He first recorded with DADGAD in 1962 (She Moved Through the Fair), but here's excerpts of a later live version and some background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFB6xj1xHnM
He was first caught on film in 1959:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAXnJgS_dp4
(skip to 3:50 - the way that girl looks at him probably explains why so many boys took up guitar afterwards...)