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Topic: string gauges for odd tunings |
David Ford
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California, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2020 9:00 am |
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I saw a YouTube video the other day with a 6 string. search for Penetration lap steel guitar and it will probably show up. The tuning is Low F, G, A, Bb, C, High D. I want to try this tuning, any suggestions on string gauges?
Peace, David |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2020 12:34 pm Re: string gauges for odd tunings
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| David Ford wrote: |
I saw a YouTube video the other day with a 6 string. search for Penetration lap steel guitar and it will probably show up. The tuning is Low F, G, A, Bb, C, High D. I want to try this tuning, any suggestions on string gauges?
Peace, David |
Cut and pasted from an earlier post:
One of the advantages of:
a) having a 50+ year stash of guitar strings,
b) having a lot more lap steels than you really need,
c) and having much more time on your hands than is healthy,
allows for some experimentation.
I pulled out my old maroon postwar Kalamazoo KEH and strung it up especially to play this tune. Here are the string gauges I installed, which seem to work pretty well. (The KEH has a 22.5" scale.)
D - .018
C - .020
Bb - .022
A - .024p
G - .026w
F - .030 |
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 2 Aug 2020 6:31 am
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Good starting point
https://www.hawaiiansteel.com/learning/gauges.php
but you have to see how flat those gauges lay on your nut and bridge
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