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Topic: Tuning Chart for 14 string |
Craig Bailey
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Posted 7 Nov 2019 7:54 pm |
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Anyone have a tuning chart for a 14 string?
Thanks
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Jack Goodson
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Posted 7 Nov 2019 8:47 pm tuning?
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| craig, i just happen to know how to tune a sierra 14 string....thanks jack |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2019 9:52 pm
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Like a U-12, except:
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| A high G# (.012) is added as string #1, and a low E (.080) is string #14. No changes are attached to the additional strings. |
See https://b0b.com/tunings/sierra.html
FWIW, I wouldn't use the low E. Instead, I'd add a middle D between E and B, to match a standard E9th in that range. But that's just me.
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Craig Bailey
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Posted 8 Nov 2019 4:00 am
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Thanks Jack & Bob. I am trying to help a friend who is brand new to steel guitar and he got a 14 string. His top string broke and I wanted to make sure he got the right string on it.
Jack, I told him he needed to bring it to you.
Craig
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b0b
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Posted 8 Nov 2019 7:28 am
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While Sierra published an extended U-12 tuning, every 14-string player I've met had a very personalized tuning. It's not a standard instrument. I wouldn't assume anything. Talk to the previous owner of the guitar to find out how it's tuned.
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Jack Goodson
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new brockton,alabama (deceased)
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Posted 8 Nov 2019 8:02 am soerra?
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| craig, tell him to give a call.... thanks jack....yes everyone has their own way of tuning, even e9/th players have a lot of variation. |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 8 Nov 2019 9:54 am
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I don't believe the D string belongs in a universal tuning. It would screw up the B6 grips. On E9 we expect to change grips as we move back and forth, but not on B6 which is more intuitive and where we don't have to account for every note.
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Posted 18 Nov 2019 9:46 am
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Craig,
This is the copedant that I used on the Sierra 14-string guitar I used to own. It's based on Bill Stafford's tuning using 8 pedals, 7 knee levers and a lock lever to lock strings 5 and 9 to Eb.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
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Jack Goodson
From:
new brockton,alabama (deceased)
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Posted 18 Nov 2019 11:07 am tuning?
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| i believe the tuning in reference to is julian tharpes 14 string tuning with 10 and 6....thanks jack |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 18 Nov 2019 12:02 pm
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This is the JET 14 Sho-Bud tuning from 1974:
Maybe you can blow it up. |
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 18 Nov 2019 1:02 pm
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this is Sierra's U14 chart published on their website, basically the same as the one Glenn posted without the extra knees, a couple of minor variations:
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