Wednesday, 9/18/2024
at 8:30 PM


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Guitarists occasionally tune the high E string down to D, a fact known to guitar fans. Many songs benefit from this. Frenchman Pierre Bensusan, born in Algeria in 1957, completely retuned his instrument, expressed by the abbreviation DADGAD. This alters the guitar's sound and requires a different way of playing. At the same time, new tonal possibilities open up. This tuning was developed in the 1960s by English fingerstyle guitarist Davey Graham, who sought to imitate the sound and playing style of the Arabic Ud. A guitar tuned to DADGAD sounds almost magical, sometimes reminiscent of dreamy Celtic music as in the piece "Le Voyage pour l'Irlande". Bensusan has been a master of this special tuning for half a century, which has since been embraced by other musicians. He naturally excels in fingerpicking. Guitar in a different way, yet feels like old friends. With his new album "Azwan," Pierre Bensusan presents his current program exclusively in Germany at the Alten Stadtsaal Speyer. You shouldn't miss this!

On Thursday, 20.09.24, Pierre Bensusan will hold a workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration and information via kulturing@web.de.

Doors open: 8:00 p.m.

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