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Message 8397
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| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] 10-String Tunings | | Date: | Saturday, January 5, 2008 22:17:38 (-0800) | | From: | Pete Grant <pete @.........com>
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| In reply to: | Message 8381 (written by Eugene) |
> But my real question is: are any of you using a similar tuning?
Nope. Not me. On all three of my 10-strings, starting in '76, I used a D9th
similar to an E9 pedal steel tuning
Notes: D A D E F# A D F# C# E
ScaleStep: 1 5 1 2 3 5 1 3 7 2
Gauges: .070 .045 .032 .028 .024w.022 .014 .0115.017 .013
I even used palm pedals on my first one, encouraged by a conversation with
Weldon Myrick. But I abandoned the palm pedals because I had to change my right
hand too much when I played. I was also discouraged from further right hand
gyrations when I showed my palm-pedaled rig to Jimmie Crawford, who said, "Hey,
I think if you're going to play dobro, you should play dobro." So I just got a
lot better at slants. I think he was right. That, of course, doesn't mean that
if I had a pedal dobro I wouldn't play it. Quite the contrary. I'm still
yearning for one.
Here's my best 10-string:
http://www.petegrant.com/flash_zephyr.html
Pete Grant
Auburn, not-so-sunny-today California
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