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![A seven-string guitar with the open strings annotated with the notes D-G-B-D-G-B-D](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/RussianSevenStringTuning.jpg/100px-RussianSevenStringTuning.jpg)
![Baseball player Van Lingle Mungo](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Van_Lingle_Mungo_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg/70px-Van_Lingle_Mungo_1940_Play_Ball_card.jpeg)
- ... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
- ... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?
- ... that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning?
- ... that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" while reading a baseball encyclopedia? (Van Lingle Mungo pictured)
September 2012