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Topic: Ignorant and uneducated MSA Tuning |
Donnie Southers
From:
Lancaster, Ohio
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 9:18 am |
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I recently bought a 1973 MSA D10 Classic, 8 pedals / 2 levers. It came with the original manual. After reading through it I came across the tuning set up for E9 but it doesn't jive with what I am used to.
Suggested manual tuning as follows:
1st string ( F#)
2nd string ( Eb)
3rd string ( Ab)
4th string ( E )
5th string ( B )
6th string ( Ab)
7th string ( F#)
8th string ( E)
9th string ( D)
10th string ( B)
Can some one tell me why the 2nd, 3rd and 6th strings are different? Should I tune to standard or suggested tuning in manual? |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 9:23 am
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| that's a e9th tuning, maybe your put off as tuning uses flats instead of sharp . ,Ab = G# and so on,,, |
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Donnie Southers
From:
Lancaster, Ohio
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 9:29 am Msa tuning
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| Doug and John thank you for clarifying what I suspected. So just tune as if it were F#,D#,G#,E,B,G#,F#,E,D,B? |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 7:38 pm
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Typically you don't mix flats and sharps, you choose one or the other, it depends on the key signature of the music written on staff..( at least by European classical theories) Those MSA guitars are great, bullet-proof sound great and won't ever break, I loves me some MSA. Great purchase Donnie.
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A.K.A Chappy. |
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Donnie Southers
From:
Lancaster, Ohio
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Posted 26 Feb 2016 4:42 am MSA Tuning
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| Thanks Larry, I do really like it. I have begun disassembling it and polishing all the aluminum and chrome. I'm smart enough to take it apart and reassemble it but honestly I don't know how to correctly adjust it. Have been looking for someone locally to do that after all cleaning is finished. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 26 Feb 2016 6:00 am
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For adjustments, you can see the "rodding charts" for which rods in which holes in the bellcranks and changer. If you get it right, both pulls on a shaft will arrive at pitch together. Unless you change what knees do what, you shouldn't have to change any pedal or lever stops.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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