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Topic: E9 8 string pedal copedent |
Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 7:24 am |
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What would you suggest?
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 7:37 am
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Do you want to go back in time before the top two strings appeared and take a pull-release nostalgia trip? Or do you want to do something modern and clever?
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 7:43 am
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Probably back in time. Definitely pull / release.
I want to stay close to the standard E9, just use 8 strings. I'm thinking (high to low):
G#
E
B
G#
F# (maybe)
E
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B
With the normal 3 pedals 2 knees.
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 8:23 am
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Here's a page from the history book - maybe it'll give you some ideas. I can't remember who posted it - maybe they'll chime in and claim it. The most surprising thing to me is that our old familiar 8th string E took so long to arrive.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 8:25 am
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I personally would use the top 8 strings. Thars what I had on the triple neck National I started on. I could live (not happily) without the low B and D, but never without the F# and D #.
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Dave Zirbel
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Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 8:29 am
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I want to stay close to the standard E9, just use 8 strings. I'm thinking (high to low):
G#
E
B
G#
F# (maybe)
E
???
B |
Good choice!
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I don't think Ralph played a ten string tuning in 1959. He was still on 8.....I think...[/img]
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From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Abe Levy
From:
California, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 8:46 am
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I use the top eight with the chromatics. I would wager that most people use the top two a lot more than the bottom two. I use them ten times more at least.
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 28 Oct 2015 10:34 am
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3 pedals 2 knees (E lower & raise)
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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James Taylor
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 6:24 am
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| On my 1950's Fender eight string pedal steel, I had the chromatic and then pushed onto a Zum Encore with ten strings. I found it much easier to move to ten strings after that switch. JAMES TAYLOR |
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 29 Oct 2015 6:33 am
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Thanks for the ideas. I've played the basic 3 pedal 2 knees, and even though I added the RKR, I never used it.
For now I'm going to stick with the Emmons setup, but strings 10 - 3, and expand on what I do with that.
Part of my problem is the knees, feet, and hips don't work as well as they used to.
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