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From: jdim...@teleport.com (John Philip Dimick)
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Subject: Re: Parkening cheating?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:42:45 -0800 (PST)
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dante rosati <d...@interport.net> wrote:

>A student of mine has a two-cd set of Parkening's greatest hits, or 
>something like that. On it is a recording of Bach's Prelude in E Major 
>from the 4th Lute suite. It sounded pretty good, but I picked up my 
>guitar to play along and soon realized it was in F Major. There seems to 
>be three possibilities: either he is using a capo on the first fret (not 
>out of the question, but what for?), or he tuned his guitar a semitone 
>high, or he sped up the recording so that it would sound faster. Does 
>anyone know anything about this?

His published arrangement says to capo on the first fret.