How many tunings are there in slack key?
To my knowledge, no one really knows. Over 75 tunings have been with about 25 being fairly common. Many families, including our own, have special family tunings that are rarely shared. In the old days, if you came upon someone playing slack key and they didn’t know you, they would stop playing and even de-tune the instrument so that their family music and tunings would remain exclusive to the family.
