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Topic: 6 String Pedal Steel |
Tony Dingus
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Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 8:14 pm |
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If you had a 6 string pedal guitar how would you tune it, how many pedal and knee levers? I've got a project in mind. Thanks for any input.
Tony |
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jim flynn
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Salado,Texas
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 5:10 pm 6-string tunings
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I have made these for pickers in many tunings:
E-maj (1) G#-E-B-G#-E-B 3X4 and E-B-G#-E-B 3X4
G-major(dobro tuning) 3X2
C-6 4X4
see: lonestarsteelguitar.com
Also see tunings posted on bobs' Links on this forum
Enjoy
Jim |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 5:53 pm Re: 6 String Pedal Steel
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| Tony Dingus wrote: |
If you had a 6 string pedal guitar how would you tune it, how many pedal and knee levers? I've got a project in mind. Thanks for any input.
Tony |
Tony. I have a couple of 6 string PSG. What are you trying to accomplish with your "project". That will determine your tuning. |
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 11:22 am
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Thanks Jim, I'll check it out.
Bill, I might use a Tele pickups and/or acoustic bridge pickup. Something different. I play dobro too and thought about tuning to D and raising it to G with pedals. I know there's alot of tunings out there. Thanks,
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 2:29 pm
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| Do you play standard guitar also? |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 5:45 pm
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I play guitar a little. Bob, that's what I've had on my mind. I think it would be cool having a pedal tele sound.
Tony |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 5:58 pm
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1ztlywdmxmy
One day on the forum someone ask about a Fender Tele type sound possibility on a pedal steel. I went down to my music room and just did a little jam only to show that it was possible to get that kind of sound. Click on the link to hear it. The nerds/Fender "experts" debated if it was the sound of a new or old Fender or one with 10 year old crud or 40 year old crud on the finish or 6000 turns of 42 guage wire as opposed to the more favored 6003 turns and whether it had the correct pencil marks in the neck cavity etc. That was not the intention at all to sound identical.....just to get in the ball park. This was done on a 6 string Cougar with a simple single coil that is close to a Fender tele style pickup. I have a 6 string steel that I made the body on and Jim Flynn of Lone Star guitars finished out for me. I have not gotten it finished up yet...good gracious I just don't have the time, but it will be the mac daddy of a 6 string for me when I do get it done. It will have a fretted neck on it and two pickups one that will slide back and forth for different tones. 6 pedals and 5 knees.
I am tuning like standard guitar only because I play that and the elec bass for a living and I wanted the 6 string to have a sound all its own. So I have the ability to pull to an E chord or also to drop the A to G and the high E to D for a G tuning. You could also drop the low E to D. For a I to IV country sound you can have the B to C and the D to E. There are many possibilities for a 6 stringer to set up for Rock and Blues. |
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 6:41 pm
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Nice Bill. Sounds great.
Tony |
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Lee Wilber
From:
Davenport, Florida, USA (near Orlando)
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 1:36 pm
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| Tony---- I have a 6 string pedal steel that Ed Fulawka built for me and i use the high E copendant that BoB has listed. they are the 3-4-5-6-8-10 strings that are on the E9TH tuning.I have a 10string msa millenium that i love but enjoy my 6 string the most.---lee |
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