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Originally Posted by Robbie
Keith Richards taking the low "E" string off his telecaster and tuning the remaining 5 strings to open "G" and making musical history.
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Aside from the fact that open guitar tunings have been around long before Richards. Dobros and banjos use them and lutes were all open tuned, even to the extent of having movable frets. Open tuning was used in India 1000s of years ago. Then Mexico, Hawaii etc.
So, although wildly great, Richards certainly didn't make musical history using slack tuning as it is popularly known.