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Topic: 009 or .008 highest note? |
Chuck Fisher
From:
Santa Cruz, California, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Jan 2006 1:34 am |
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Before I hear zing! and put my eye out, is it possible to get a string tuned up to C above (normal guitar) high E ?
24.5" scale, BTW |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 20 Jan 2006 6:22 am
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I bet an .008 would make it. Why don't you post a video of you trying it!
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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande
Mullen U-12, Evans FET-500, Fender Steel King
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Craig Stenseth
From:
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2006 4:08 pm
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You'll put your eye out, kid.
I think that's the same scale as my Rickenbacker (electric/Spanish, not a lap steel), and the octave G is probably an .008, I hate tuning that one and waiting for the thing to break. |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2006 4:23 pm
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The "Breaking Load" for 0.008" plain steel music (piano) wire ... i.e. guitar string ... is approx. 20 to 22 lbs of tension.
On a 24.5" scale instrument ...
A 0.008" string pulled to a 523 Hz "C" note ... would theoretically generate ... 24.14 lbs of tension.
Pop goes that Weasel ...
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 21 Jan 2006 6:01 am
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C'mon guys. We'll never get a video if you keep this up.
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 21 Jan 2006 8:17 am
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| Just Curious. Why would you want to tune that high? That's where dogs howl and glass breaks. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 21 Jan 2006 8:21 am
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Maybe he's got a drunk dog with a highball glass in his paw and he wants to teach it a lesson. Did ya ever think of that?
I want a video too. With a Red Rider BB gun on the set to stay with the **you'll shoot your eye out, kid** theme. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2006 10:54 am
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Wow, weasel parts! Dude, just put the goggles on and go for it already. And make a lo-fi sound clip with, like, a ton of delay on it? And then post it as "The Parting of the 'C'"...
--Steve |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 21 Jan 2006 1:06 pm
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Nothing is impossible to those who believe.
But he would have to do a lot of praying or believing.
How much?
I don't know.
But he certainly would have to believe in miracles, don't you think?
Aloha,
Don[This message was edited by Don Kona Woods on 21 January 2006 at 01:08 PM.] |
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Chuck Fisher
From:
Santa Cruz, California, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Jan 2006 4:04 pm
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Gad! I never knew steelers were such a bloodthirsty bunch. Must be all the long nights in country bars...
Well, that 10-string tuning idea isnt likely to work it seems. I hate getting zinged by strings!
No video, neeener neener neener |
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