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Topic: WBS S-10 Steelguitar E9/B6 Switchable tuning Questions |
Didi Waechtler
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Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 10:52 am |
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Hello Forummembers,
I'm proud owner of a WBS Steelguitar S-10 E9/B6 swichtable tuning. http://www.wbssteelguitars.com/
Any suggestions how I get the main important Western Swing chords (like in C6 tuning)with my pedal actions and Levers I got. Maybe you have ideas what action I miss and I need to add.
Here is my Copedent:
http://www.dietmar-waechtler.de/deutsch/copedent-e9-b6/
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Tucker Jackson
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:17 pm
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Nice guitar! Wow, a switchable copendent. How does that work, exactly? Do you have a lever under the guitar that locks in place? I couldn't find that info on the WBS website...
It looks like it lowers strings 4, 8, 9, and 10. Pardon my ignorance, but that looks like a B6 tuning rather than E6, right?
With the guitar switched to the B6 mode, you can get the four notes of a B6 chord on strings:
9-8-7-6
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5-4-3-1 (or 5-3-2-1)
It's nice that you can strum from strings 9 to 6, or strum from 5 to 1.... or even 10 to 1 works. 
I'll leave it to others to provide some other good Western Swing-style positions, but the basic 6th chord should get you started. |
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Didi Waechtler
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Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:33 pm B6
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Tucker I guess you right B6. I will correct that. There's a short lever installed switched to B6. Special 5 Nylontuners for the 5 strings correct the pitch. Works great. Thanks for your feedback.
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Micky Byrne
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United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:33 pm Re: WBS S-10 Steelguitar E9/E6 Switchable Chord/action quest
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DiDi.....if you can look back, there was an article written by the late Jeff Newman called "The swinging E 9th" Just by lowering your E's. There is so much swing on the B6th tuning  ...I think most uni players myself included went with Jeff's article then later progressed to the 2 extra strings on a Uni
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K. |
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Didi Waechtler
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Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:46 pm WBS S-10 Steelguitar E9/B6 Switchable Chord/action question
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| Micky, thanks. Yes I will check the article. Great idea. |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:50 pm Re: WBS S-10 Steelguitar E9/B6 Switchable Chord/action quest
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Didi....I think the article was in "Steel Guitarist" magazine.....I think you can still get copies from Tom Bradshaw
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K. by the way...nice colour your WBS  |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 23 Jan 2015 6:32 am
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Hi Bill, that's handy to know.....I got my 2nd lot about 8 years ago from Tom Bradshaw...probably lost them too. They're such good reading and so informative. I remember one of Scottie's magazines had an article from someone who became a friend, on how to convert a 12 string steel to have the pulls of a twin 10. This was way before the "Universal" as we know of now. So I had the bits made up by a machinest friend and still have that Sho-Bud today...the one that was BBQ'd in a house fire and rebuilt.
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K. |
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Lindell Thomas
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2015 12:20 am
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| Guten Tag, Herr Waechtler Herb Steiner has some good Western Swing courses on his website. Western Swing is a great world to explore and enjoy. Have fun |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2015 12:54 am tunings
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| I play a lot of B6th by lowering the E's. I use a very simple setup with 3 & 4. A6th is there w/ pedals also. Thanks. |
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