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Topic: Name that tuning & other ramblings |
Gary C. Dygert
From:
Frankfort, NY, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2007 2:42 pm |
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I stumbled across this tuning somewhere. Is this an E13? High to low: D-C#-B-F#-B-E (7-6-5-9-5-1, I think.)
Has anybody thought why some tunings work for some people and not others? I prefer E-B-G#-E-C#-B (1-5-3-1-6-5), which is close to the old E7. I can play in some other tunings, but having 1-5-3 on top makes the most sense to me. I try some tunings and can't imagine how anybody can get music out of them, yet they do. Maybe there are mathematical relationships that people see, consiously or unconciously. Or maybe I'm just thinking about this too hard. |
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nick allen
From:
France
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Posted 29 Oct 2007 2:18 am
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I guess that 1st tuning you mention IS an E13, though it's not a version (or inversion) I've ever seen before!
Your "preferred" tuning is exactly what I use on my 6-string lap. And on 8-string, I just add a G# and E (3 and 1) below that... although actually I usually have it tuned up to G, but with the same intervals. I feel more secure having that "Open E" 1-5-3-1 on top. Basically it's taking the essential part of the standard 6th tuning (5-3-1-6-5-3-1, high to low), and then, rather than adding another 6 or something on the bottom, adding another tonic on top - which, to me at least, is much more useful.
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Oct 2007 7:52 pm
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Years ago, in the Philadelphia, Pa./Camden, NJ area there was a great player by the name of Shorty Sax(e), who played a single–6 steel. He could play anything you could think of and very well! His guitar was tuned to what we called an E6 back then. (Lo-Hi) [B~E~G#~B~C#~E]
[5–1–3–5–6–1]
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Mark Roeder
From:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 9:11 am
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I have been playing steel about eighteen months and asked myself the same question. So I found as many
of the most well known players tunings as I could and put them into numbers inplace of letters. I was hoping I could find a pattern. What I noticed was a
6th in the higher register for western swing players. I didn't care for that position for blues,
some jazz and rockabilly. So I play in E with the 6th
in the lower half of the tuning. L 13561351 H. I will probably get a double neck someday and have to rethink tunings again. |
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