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David Decker
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Canton, Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2023 8:00 am |
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| What is the common tuning and pedal changes for a six string four pedal Multikord steel? |
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David Decker
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Canton, Ohio, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2023 12:33 am
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| No one can help !! |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 7 Jan 2023 1:31 am
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Be patient. The knowledge is out there - you just have to let it in. I believe the instrument was designed to be entirely programmable, so there may be no standard setup at all.
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 7 Jan 2023 6:41 am
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Dave.
Back in the day my Multi Kord was set up with the eight string Etuning.
As far as the pedals, this in strument requires both feet on the pedals if you want to play country licks so to speak.
So you need one pedal to raise theB string to C# and one to raise the G# to A.
One pedal to lower the E string To Eb.
Work the volume control with your little finger.
The E9tuning didn’t exist at that time so the tuning was pretty much a straight E tuning. With my eight string guitar I put a 7th on there .
If you have more questions let me know. |
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Tom Sosbe
From:
Rushville,In
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Posted 7 Jan 2023 11:13 am
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I can't tell if this is big enough to read or not. If not let me know and we'll try something different. |
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John Haspert
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2023 12:16 pm Harlin Brothers Multi-Kord
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There’s been a lot of postings on these historic gems. If you use the “Search” tab in the Pedal Steel section, you’ll find a lot of info. Some of the high points- you will find that some have tried to put some of the PSG pedal setups on the M-K with varying degrees of success. Yes the changer allows for a lot of versatility, but the cables and pedal placement leaves a bit to be desired. Also the returns (meaning when you release a pedal) are not as crisp as a more modern instrument. Most of the ones I have seen or played are not the top of the line tone woods, nor were they meant to be, so there is a range of tonality across the models. They were intended to allow a lap steel player different tunings or reduce the number of necks needed to play, so in the previous posts you will see references to Hawaii’an which typically had no pedals and relied on slants, reverses etc. What I use Mine for is to use it more like a lap steel, tuned in E, 1 pedal to flat a third, 1 pedal to get a 7’th, 1 pedal to get a diminished and last pedal to get a 1-4 change.. Good Luck with yours.
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