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Topic: PSG-guitar hybrid - Servobender |
John Scanlon
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Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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Peter Nylund
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Finland
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Posted 13 Jul 2014 6:51 am |
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Very interesting. When will it be applied to pedal steel? Every copedant would be within reach if you can raise and lower any string you like. And probably no cabinet drop 
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Dave Grafe
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Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 14 Jul 2014 9:14 am
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| With the guitar's EADGBE tuning that should fry a brain cell or two for anyone trying to stay on top of the chordal relationships, since there is no "open" chord position to start with... |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2014 9:38 am
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| I'll stick with straight mechanical over electro-mechanical. Something electrical breaks and you're screwed! I really don't see any great advantage. It is interesting though. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 Jul 2014 10:20 am
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So many attempts have been made over the years to get pedal sounds out of a regular electric guitar, but they all just go half way. Why not just fit an entire pedal steel mechanism to the tail of an electric guitar and work it from cables-in-tubes? And you might as well build the electric guitar as an 8 or 10-string while you're about it.
The fact is, that as long as the strings are low enough for a guitarist to push down against the frets with his fingers, they would rattle if you used a tone bar. You cannot get pedal steel sounds out of any instrument without using a tone bar. So you fit a nut riser and now you have a lap steel.  |
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 15 Jul 2014 11:25 am
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| Hey Dave,,,,I wonder why we accept the premise that guitars are tuned in "E",,,,,there is no E triad,,,BUT THERE IS A G triad,,,,how about G 6/9?????? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 8:39 am
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| The Dobro is usually tuned to G. |
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 9:03 am
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| Yes Alan,,,we call the dobro G because it has ,,,not one,,,,but 2 G triads. Where is the "E" triad on a standard guitar? Why do we say a guitar is tuned to E? However,,,,there IS a G triad in a guitar tuning,,,with an added 6th,,,and an added 9th.??? |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 9:17 am
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"Why do we say a guitar is tuned to E? "
I don't say that! Never have. There are altered tunings which go by their chord names, but EADGBE is called Standard Tuning. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 4:01 pm
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The standard tuning of a regular guitar gives an incredible number of chords playable within the first three frets, and the tuning has been arrived at after hundreds of years of alternative tunings having been tried.
You might find this thread interesting:-
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=267584
Yes, the open strings form a G13 chord, but I've always thought that the standard tuning was derived for playing in Emin. I don't think anyone refers to it as "E tuning". In fact, the main banjo tuning is the same as guitar except that the first string is tuned down to D, and that has always been known as "G tuning".
By the way, the first four strings of a banjo are the same as the first four courses of the German Lute Tuning. |
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