One I like is Val's, who occasionally posts here. The low D on the G row is converted to a B...
Yep, just the B. Pull (F#) stays the same.
Brilliant, cheap little tweak
- adopted it yonks ago. Just for the sacrifice of that redundant duplicated low D, if you can get your brain around it, it's so much better... all you need for "The Drinking Song" is that low B...
Fourth button doh must be a bit of a bugger for tunes that have E followed by Eb - it's a big enough stretch on a 3rd button doh.
Too true.
Having owned a 'straight tuned' 4th start D/G Black Pearl 3 for a bit, and then having accidentals put on the bottom pair, the stretch, especially for the higher pitch accidentals, felt just too contorted. In light of experience, I think I should have kept the low notes at the bottom, then the accidentals, then the normal progression... just for the sakes of eliminating the stretch...
I suppose it wouldn't be so critical on a Tommy or anything else with a 'squished' geometry. Then again, there are a few posh boxes about with the low notes interlinked to a micro-half-row... which is another way of getting around it...
Ed J