re: construction of a guitar tuning to play barbershop in

[Justin White wrote...]
>I seen loads of analysis of tunings of Barbershop music on this list but I
>was wondering whether any one knows of any resources re: actual barbershop
>transriptions, chord progressions and melodies. And they needn't be that
>acurate regarding tuning etc [I'll work that out] what I'm after is just
>plain old sheet music.

If you mean standard sheet music, you can get it from the Society. Try
www.SPEBSQSA.org. The best way to deal with them is to become a member,
and if you like the music and want to play it on guitar, there's no
better way than to turn out for your local chorus. Singing is good for
you, too!

BTW, don't feel you need to buy arrangements. B-shop is very easy to
arrange from a melody. Anyone familar with the basics of voice leading
can do it... just remember that the basic chords are tetrads instead
of triads. There are a couple of extra rules that you should be able
to pick up, or I can send you a sheet on them (mail me off-list).

>Why am I interested in this ? I plan to tune one of my interchangeable
>fretboards to some tuning based on babershop music [the other three are
>going to be fretted to a tuning Paul Erlich worked out for me and two
>others are to tunings by Erv Wilson + I will have a fretless board].

Hope you caught Paul's post on this...

-Carl