Before switching to fifths tuning, Kress used other tunings on the banjo and
tenor guitar.[6] His fifths-tuning gave Kress's playing "fuller chords and basslines", according to Richard Lieberson.
Lieberson (1996, p. 42) When Kress's duets with
Dick McDonough were published, they were
transposed from his fifths tuning to
standard tuning.[7]
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^Sethares, Bill (2001). "Regular Tunings".
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