Music · Guitar work
Detuned guitar
Guitar deliberately tuned away from standard pitch.
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It is heard on two recordings, 'Yesterday' from 1965 (tuned down one whole tone), and 'For You Blue' from 1970, Harrison's, sung by Paul and by George respectively, split between the Help! album and the Let It Be album, cut 14 June 1965 and 25 January 1969. On 'For You Blue': Lennon's lap steel, played flat across his lap and tuned to an open D7 chord (D-A-D-F#-C-D) rather than standard. Among them, 'Yesterday' has Epiphone Texan FT-79, and only three other recordings do.
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