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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Intonation question | | Date: | Thursday, January 5, 2006 17:56:37 (EST) | | From: | KCSteelPlayer <KCSteelPlayer @...com>
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In a message dated 1/4/2006 12:20:43 PM Central Standard Time,
reso-man@comcast.net writes:
> On the other hand, when I was playing Pedal Steel, I think it was Jeff
> Newman, a great steel guitar instructor now sadly deceased, who'd first worked
> out an elaborate "tempered tuning" system using the then new Korg tuner, that
> would compensate for the peculiarities of the E 9th tuning and the various
> changes caused by the floor pedals and the knee bars that this instrument
> used.
>
And the debate still rages on over on the steel guitar forum about it (and
they've even corrected the terminology: you can't really Newman's tunings
"tempered", they're Just Intonation tunings, while the rest of the world uses
Bach's
Even Tempered Tuning), and some guy named Emmons has gone back to tuning
everything straight on.
I think bar pressure accomplishes the same thing that the compensating bridge
does, in answer to the original question.
FWIW, I tune nearly everything straight to zeros on the tuner, although I
flatten the thirds just a hair (but not enough to bring them down to JI. Both
reso and the cheese slicer.
Lane Gray
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