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Topic: New Book on E9 Split Tuning |
Don E. Curtis
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St Louis, Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Jun 2004 11:18 am |
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Available through Scotty's Music Inc.
314-427-7794
I took the three articles that I wrote on the "Splits" for the O.S.G.A. and compiled them all into one book. We just finished the formatting and I'm getting ready to bind some.
Let us know if you're interested...
Don
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Chuck Trombley
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Broken Arrow, Ok. 74012
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Posted 15 Jun 2004 2:26 pm
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| Don. Forgive my ignorance but what is the E9th split tuning? Thanks. |
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Don E. Curtis
From:
St Louis, Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 2:14 pm
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Anyone?...
Anyone?...
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 2:36 pm
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I think that split tuning refers to when you raise a string a full step and lower it a half step at the same time, Chuck. It's not a different tuning. It's a way of tuning your pedals and knee levers to get new combinations.
Am I right, Don?
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 17 Jun 2004 4:31 am
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... or maybe it's tuning the "split pedals"? Naaah... C'mon Don, give us a clue!  |
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Don E. Curtis
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St Louis, Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jun 2004 10:40 am
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Of course it's the Split Tuning Capabilities of the "All Pull" guitars...as b0b mentioned, when you raise a sting a whole step and lower it a half step simultaneously the note "Splits" and goes up a half step. Like the "A" Pedal along with the Vertical Knee lowering String #5 a semi-tone. Open String is a B note, the "A" Pedal gives you a C# note, the Vertical Knee gives you a Bb note. And the two together "Split" to give you a C Natural note.
All of the "All Pull" guitars do this but the Split note was always slightly out of tune, and if you tuned it then whichever device you used to tune the "Split" would then be out of tune.
So in '79 the Big E along with Ron Lashley Sr. introduced the Lashley LeGrande with the "Split" tuning Hex Cap Screws located in the end of the Aluminum Necks that changed everything.
Then since Physics dictates that once the "Split" note was in tune via the dedicated lower Nylon Tuning Nut that the Lowered note will be flat, and it's being lowered...then all you have to do is add an auxilliary raise pull-rod acting on the same string at the same time you could then raise the up the pitch of the slightly flat lowered note. So you are in fact lowering and raising the same string at the same time with the same Lever, but the lower nut tunes the "Split", and the the raise nut re-tunes the lowered note.
Now I'm really confused...I guess I'll have to real my own book again, ha, ha.
The two most common "Splits" are on strings #5 & #6 and are featured in some of Buddy's Tabs. But doesn't tell you what they are or how to tune them.
Hope this explanation helps and thanks for asking.
Your Steel Friend,
Don E. Curtis |
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John Bechtel
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Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Jun 2004 5:40 pm
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This method is also used on the 10-str. C6th. Neck when Raising strings #3 & #4 (1-Tone) and Lowering string #3 (1/2-Tone). [#3 str. C to D & C to B = C#]
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Don E. Curtis
From:
St Louis, Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 25 Jun 2004 9:03 am
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I'll have some in Toledo this weekend at Scotty's booth. Come up and say hey!
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Bill Waskiewicz
From:
Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 5:10 am
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Hi Don: Perhaps you could post an e-mail address a price and some payment methods and us that are interested can order your split tuning book here, watcha think? 
Thanks Bill W. |
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Robert Momot
From:
Farmington, Missouri, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2004 12:42 pm
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Don, hope you're doing well...just recieved my copy of the book on the Split Tunings that you wrote. Since both of my Derby's have the split tuning capabilities I know how to use them since I got your book. Thank you so much for taking your time to help fellow steelers to understand the capabilities of their instruments. The book is $22 through Scotty's Music and I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in the Split Tuning.
Thank you very much!
Robert Momot |
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