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Topic: What type strings are needed for Harlin Bros Multi-Kord? |
Allen Hahn
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Washington DC, USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2013 7:39 pm |
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I own a 4 pedal, 6 string MultiKord. Never played it as I left the country in 2006 just after I purchased it. The strings are old so I want to replace them. But when I speak to anybody (online) about the type of strings needed, I get a lot of very technical questions about tunings and gauges. The tunings I probably will use are A Major (not associated with a pedal), E7, E9, C#Minor, and C6.
Can anyone on this forum help me figure this out? I really do want to get play this at least once. After that, I may sell it and buy a beginner's pedal steel. For those who don't know about Multi-Kords (MK), they were the forerunner of today's pedal steels. One of the big exceptions is that each pedal on the MK changes the entire tuning (example, from E7 to C-Minor) instead of raising and lowering a single string. And there are no knee levers on the MK.
Thank you for reading this and for any help you can render to me.
Allen |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 19 Sep 2013 9:05 pm
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Check out the following link. It should help you get the right guages. I don't know what tuning you are actually going to use, but the chart will give you the gauges you want based on the highest note the string will change to.
http://www.b0b.com/infoedu/gauges.htm
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Jim Williams
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Meridian, Mississippi, USA - Home of Peavey!
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Posted 20 Sep 2013 6:57 am
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I've heard the multi kords were very configurable...so would it be possible to set up the pedals to emulate a standard pedal steel setup? Just curious.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 20 Sep 2013 8:09 am
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| Jim Williams wrote: |
| ...would it be possible to set up the pedals to emulate a standard pedal steel setup? Just curious. |
Yes. Many people do. You can also play it like a modern steel, except that it has no knee levers and the pedals are in an awkward position. The one thing you will find on the MultiKord is that the string separation is quite wide compared to a modern pedal steel.
I have several MultiKords and I'm thinking of adapting one to regular pedals. I've been planning to do that for several years now, but I have a lot of other projects on my list. Someday I'll get round to it.   |
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