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Topic: Tuning the 9th String from D to D# |
Wayne D. Clark
From:
Montello Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2006 8:30 am |
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Do any of you tune your 9th string to a D# like the 2nd string in E9th? I find it give me a nice cord with the 10th 9th 7th 6th 5th 2nd & 1st. the 6th gives it a melow miner, However I have no idea what open chord it is.
MSA D10 8/2 |
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Harry Johansen
From:
Kvalsund.Norway/Valencia Dumaguete,Phils.
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Posted 16 Aug 2006 10:53 am
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| Try to tune your 9th string to C#,and the same knee lever raise the string to D.Sounds good,also with the Franklin pedal. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 16 Aug 2006 11:40 am
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Hey Wayne,
I personally tune my 9th string to C# with a raise to D but there are some uses for a D# on the 9th string. The late Winnie Winston had that change on a knee lever where he'd raise his 9th string to D#. With the D# note a nice ending to a fast solo is playing the strings in this order: 6,7,8,6,7,8,9,7,8........ However, I don't think it'd be a good thing to keep that string at D# all the time, you might want to put it on a knee lever along with a 2nd string lower or something. I have seen that change added to a C pedal....JH in Va.
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 16 Aug 2006 12:15 pm
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Many people have a lever that takes the 8th string (and 4th string) E to Eb(D#). So they wouldn't need a string tuned to that note. That change is the basis for the shift to the B6 mode on a uni. It also creates a G#m chord.
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Student of the Steel: Zum uni, Fender tube amps, squareneck and roundneck resos, tenor sax, keyboards
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2006 10:44 am
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I have a lever that raises my 9th string D up to D#. It also pulls the 1st string F# to G and G#, which is an unrelated change that doesn't interfere much with the 9th string change.
For me this is an "extra" LKL and I have to pull away from the guitar a little bit to use it. |
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