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Topic: 7 string lap Advantages over 6 |
Carl McLaughlin
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St.Stephen,New Brunswick,Can
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Posted 26 Jan 2022 9:06 am |
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What is the main advantage of a 7 string over a 6 string lap 
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I have a Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic. Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider, and an Allan tailpiece .Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD, using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal, set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it. Recently got a Sho-NUFF 6 string pedal steel in open G.Still learning.Just bought back my old SX lap steel that i modified, in open G |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2022 9:13 am One more string
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Either more range (an additional high or low note) or more non-slant chords (an additional note in the middle). It really depends on your playing style.
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Noah Miller
From:
Rocky Hill, CT
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Posted 26 Jan 2022 9:34 am
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| And more slant chords! |
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Allan Revich
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Victoria, BC
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Posted 26 Jan 2022 9:59 am
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More strings always mean more tuning options, which is why the typical jump up is from 6 strings to eight strings.
For me, there are two reasons to choose 7 strings over 6 or 8 strings;
1) if your favourite 6 string tuning is an open chord, having a 7th string makes it easy to add a 6th, 7th (or 13th), without altering your other 6 strings.
2) if you play a high tuning, like CEGACE, adding a lower note at string 7 gives you more bottom end, ie/ GCEGACE.
The opposite is also true, if you have a low tuning, like DADF#AD, the 7th string can be used for a higher re-entrant string, ie/ fDADF#AD.
It probably makes more sense to go to the more common 8 string instruments if your main goal is just to have more notes available.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G6 – e G D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
Last edited by Allan Revich on 8 Feb 2022 4:42 pm; edited 4 times in total |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2022 2:06 pm
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7-string steels make the transition from C6 to A6 a snap, without losing the root on the bottom string, or having to deal with a skinny, pingy top string. This one is headed my way...
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