Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2021 7:37 am |
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Simple tuning strategy for E9 single neck steels:
Hold down your ABC pedals at the same time (using both feet) while tuning your E to concert pitch.
When you let up, open E goes sharp by 6 cents—which puts it at Franklin's recommended 2 Hz and close to Newman's 8 cents. Open thirds, tuned with no pedals, will be 7 cents flat, so it all averages out and sounds good.
What's cool is that you can sharpen your baseline consistently when tuning by ear.
I never tweak my pulls at gigs because my Emmons doesn't waver, so I tune it all at home to an E fork. Then, with a meter at noisy gigs, using no pedals, I tune open strings either +6 or -7 depending on whether they're 1st, 5ths, or 3rds.
(It's possible, but convoluted and not worth it, to tune straight-up by ear this way too, using 5ths.) |
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