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Topic: Tunings for matching 8 stringers? |
Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Posted 5 Mar 2010 1:42 am |
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I got a pair of Joe Morrell MJMP-8 steels and have decided on the high E13th tuning for one of them (the one that Don Helms and Little Roy Wiggins used). For the other I am trying to decide between C6(high) and C6(low)/A6.
C6 High .. C6 Low (or A6)
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G .011 . . E .014 E
E .014 . . C .017 C#
C .018 . . A .022w A
A .022w . G .024 F#
G .024 . . E .030 E
E .030 . . C .034 C#
C .036 . . A .042 A
A .042 . . G .046 F#
I was thinking of going with C6 Low to contrast with the E13th High tuning on the other, and also because the strings can handle A6.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks!
Steve Ahola
www.blueguitar.org
P.S. I got the two of them for $425 (one was a second that they had been unable to sell until some fool came along. Oh- that was me!  ) I think that Morrell Music ought to put two of them together as a 2 neck console steel... 
P.P.S. If you want an American-made 6 or 8 string steel at a very reasonable price I give them two thumbs up. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 5 Mar 2010 8:01 am
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Using the low C6 tuning is, IMO, more beneficial for the simple fact that it can easily be retuned to a large number of useful tunings. In fact, if you really neeeded to have a high C6 tuning, you could just retune the E13 to C13, although strings 4, 5 and 7 might be a little slack.
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2010 8:26 am
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Steve,
I would reccomend either the C6(low) or A6 tuning.You can also change from C6 to A6 in a minute or two. All you have to do is, from C6 tuning, raise the C's to C#, and lower the G's to F#. It is also just as easy to change E 13 tuning to C6 with a high G. I do it every day on my 8 string Remington Steelmaster. The change takes less than a minute.
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 5 Mar 2010 11:21 am
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3 votes for C6(low)... I think we have a winner, folks!
Thanks for your input
Steve Ahola |
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