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Topic: tuning C6 neck to E9 neck |
Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 9 Dec 2013 9:36 am |
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Buddy Charleton showed me how he tuned his C neck and I have run into a few amazing older players that do the same thing and I just can't get it to work for me.
Buddy tuned his E string on the C neck to the (no pedals) E string on the E neck. I was working on other things and didn't have time to investigate it with him. Buddy tuned by ear and his E strings where pretty sharp of 440. Now that would bring his C neck way sharp when I do it. He always sounded perfect....
Do any of you players that can play in tune use that sort of by ear system ?
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Bob |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 9 Dec 2013 10:05 am
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Years ago, Johnny Cox (probably 72) was showing me how to tune the C6th neck, from info he got from some of the "big name" steeler's in Nashville.
In his method, the C strings were tuned to "C" but the E string was slightly flat of "zero". |
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2013 7:43 am
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Tune the complete 6 tuning about 1/8 of tone flat. put your bar on the 4th fret, play an E chord. Now play an E chord on the 9th tuning, open. They should be fairly close.
Tuning the E's together 9th and C6 will not work. The C6 tuning will be sharp.
The E chord has 4 sharps.
The C has no sharps or flats. This is why tuning them to 440 will not work.
Hope this helps you. |
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Charlie Paterno
From:
Westerly, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2013 8:15 am
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| I remember back around 1980 or so Bruce Bouton walked into Harry Guffee's steel shop while on tour. One thing he brought up was this question. He said at that time someone showed him to lay the back of the steel bar on the third string Cneck at the fourth fret E note and match it to the open E on the Eneck |
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