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Topic: Eddie Alkire Tuning |
Carl McLaughlin
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St.Stephen,New Brunswick,Can
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 8:35 am |
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Is there a 6 String Alkire tuning?? 
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I have a Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic. Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider, and an Allan tailpiece .Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD, using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal, set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it. Recently got a Sho-NUFF 6 string pedal steel in open G.Still learning.Just bought back my old SX lap steel that i modified, in open G |
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 8:57 am
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No. But the top two strings and the bottom two strings are the same, an octave apart so you could get away with a 8 string. However, there are a lot of chords you can play in the top 6 strings.
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Rose D13 tuning: Cabinet by J.R. Rose with mechanics engineered by Darvin Willhoite.
Williams D10 9x9.
Mullen Pre-RP D10 8x5. |
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Allan Revich
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Victoria, BC
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 9:36 am
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Not Alkire, but if you wanted to try a 6 string tuning that isn’t laid out as strumming chords., yet still has history and learning materials, you could try the Leavitt tuning,
C♯ E G B♭ C D
https://steelc6th.com/tunings/bill_leavitt.htm
You could also try Jerry Byrd’s diatonic tuning which was E F G A B C E, dropping the low E for six strings.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G6 – e G D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
Last edited by Allan Revich on 20 Dec 2021 10:33 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 9:56 am
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| Allan, I believe that Jerry Byrd tuning is called Diatonic, all the notes basically being a diatonic scale run in the Key of C. |
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Allan Revich
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Victoria, BC
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 10:33 am
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
| Allan, I believe that Jerry Byrd tuning is called Diatonic, all the notes basically being a diatonic scale run in the Key of C. |
You are right Fred. Thanks. Corrected.
Last edited by Allan Revich on 20 Dec 2021 10:34 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Carl McLaughlin
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St.Stephen,New Brunswick,Can
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 10:33 am Tuning
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Thanks guys,much appreciated.
Carl 
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I have a Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic. Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider, and an Allan tailpiece .Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD, using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal, set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it. Recently got a Sho-NUFF 6 string pedal steel in open G.Still learning.Just bought back my old SX lap steel that i modified, in open G |
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Travis Brown
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 7:33 pm
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There is a great deal of goodness in the 6 highest Alkire strings. There's no question the 10 string opens up a huge number of possibilities, but you can get pretty dang far with the top 6 strings.
Highest pitch on the far right: G G# A B C# E
I give a breakdown of the strengths/weaknesses of 6 string Eharp in this post:
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=2980965&highlight=#2980965 |
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Don Crowl
From:
Medford, Oregon, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2021 9:27 pm
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| I have been practicing & playing at a Senior center for several months using the 8 string Alkire tuning. I was so impressed by Claude Brownell‘s sounds that I tuned my tuning a half tone lower than his Alkire tuning. My only reason for that was that there are many similar positions on a B-flat six universal pedal steel tuning that I used to play. That saved me from re-learning a lot of bar positions. One can capture a lot of those same possibilities on a six string also but with the obvious limitations. |
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