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   From: mitchelldickson@bellsouth.net   
      
   Nope Karl,  he was talking about the key of B natural.   
      
   Bill Monroe, Ira Louvin, Bobby Osborne and many others loved to sing in the   
   key of B.  The guitar is capoed on the 4th fret and played in G position.   
   This throws the fiddle to play in B natural.   
      
   There are a few tunes in B flat.  That is about the only key worse than B   
   natural to play fiddle riffs in :)   
      
      
   Mitch   
      
      
   "Karl Perry"  wrote in message   
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   > "Mike Fontenot"  wrote in message   
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   > > A lot of bluegrass fiddle is played in the key of B,   
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   > As in B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B?   
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   > Really?  Five sharps?  Or are you talking about B-, which is two flats:   
   B-,   
   > C, D, E-, F, G, A, B-  ?   
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   > One sees B- quite often in classical music, but hardly ever B.   
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   > Karl   
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