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| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] 10-String Tunings | | Date: | Sunday, January 6, 2008 15:28:30 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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That's an awesome looking guitar Pete! I love the fretboard, and the "retro
look".
Richie Chiasson
Salem, N.H.
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From: "Pete Grant" <pete@petegrant.com>
> > But my real question is: are any of you using a similar tuning?
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> Nope. Not me. On all three of my 10-strings, starting in '76, I used a D9th
> similar to an E9 pedal steel tuning
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Here's my best 10-string:
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> http://www.petegrant.com/flash_zephyr.html
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> Pete Grant
> Auburn, not-so-sunny-today California
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