[LightninBoy]

Wax and polish as you dust with "Vestapol".
"Tastes great too!".
Yep, does kinda sound like floor polish.

In the 19th century, a guy called Henry Worrell wrote a song called "Sebastapol", which used open D tuning. The song became very popular and the open D tuning became known as "Sebastapol", or more simply, "Vestapol".

Similar story with Spanish tuning.
A popular song in the 1800s was called "Spanish Fandango", written in open G, and the name stuck.

The reason I use these names is not because I'm pedantic.
(Which I'm surely not)
It helps people (Students) to understand that open E and D are actually the very same, except that E is a whole tone higher. (Tighter).

And that open G and A are the same as well, but A is a tone higher.
The early blues men also used these terms.

(You might hear a John Lee Hooker song in the key of B, but its Spanish tuning. He used a capo while in open A, at the second fret, which became the key of B.
The intervals of the tuning are whats important, not the actual key.)


Actually, Spanish and Vestapol are very closely related, as explained by Barry.

Come to think of it, I've never heard either song.
Might try to track em down.