I was posting out of amusement, Stuart, not to dredge up some old argument. I guess my point was that a musician of the era would have been more likely to call it "Spanish" than "Open" anything. But, as I mentioned earlier, folkies from the '50s-'60s, of which David Evans was one, used the tuning, and the name "Open G", ubiquitously, regardless of pitch.
Wax
Wax