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What has helped me tremendously in past and present when navigating around different tunings, including 13ths, is to take the knowledge from one tuning and finding it on the other. Ex: favorite inversions, chords, scales, licks, songs etc. I think this not only helps learn the other tuning, but also...

Regarding Joaquin Murphey's tunings, the C6maj7/A9 tuning he used beginning in 1953 was, at first "b C# E G A C E G" (7 b2 3 5 6 1 3 5) where the "b" string is pitched between the C and A (strings 3 and 4). As of now, there's a tuning which is this one but the "b" is ca...

Fantastic! Thanks a bunch!

Old thread, yet worth sharing this new-to-me performance of Whit Taylor on TV - he takes a solo at the 11min55s mark! https://youtu.be/XgjS9w2q5HI?t=716

Just one solo and his talent becomes readily appreciable!

Lets not forget our friend Charles Tilley who's 91 ... and my friend Louis Armentaro from Montana playing here when he was 95, if memory serves he passed a couple years later ... he was still playing out and loving his Mullen https://www.facebook.com/100001838659084/videos/2146741165397151/ Louis A...

The fretboard for sure is a circa 40s-50s National make, yet the rest of the build appears to be custom. Cool guitar!

David, Joaquin's legal name was Earl James Murphey Jr. and when he auditioned for Spade Cooley at 17 years old, he was most likely going by "E.J." which was his childhood nickname. In any case, "Joaquin" was placed on him by Spade or Smokey Rogers and was meant to stick to a trad...

Hi Chris, WOW, what a find! This photo with great certainty is from 1949 and is from the time when the group was playing at the Riverside Rancho, recording the amazing Capitol transcriptions, and performing on AFRS. Tex Williams signed this example of a photo most likely from the same session/day as...

I have no experience with E9 or standard C6 and I don't really see myself going that direction. You can put any tuning on a 10-string pedal steel guitar and you can triple raise or lower any string. The tuning I use requires at least 4 pedals, but 8 makes it fully chromatic. A single-neck 10-string...

I use two if not three at almost all times on my tripleneck, but as noted above the tone becomes more shrill with more necks due to the increase in impedance when more pickups are in the circuit. I prefer to learn a song entirely in one tuning and use the other tunings for solos or rhythmic accompan...

Very good playing, Ethan!

You can also use this 13th tuning, here in E, to get "closer" chord voicings. I think Vance Terry used a similar tuning, if not the same one. Coming from a 6th tuning background, notice that strings 3 and 4 are both a tone above strings 3 and 4 of A6. So, you have the top four strings of A...

The taper for the tone pot will be logarithmic - this produces a "doo wah" effect. For really dramatic and quick effect, use a linear pot. The volume pot will be logarithmic to ensure an even-sounding change in signal output.

Cool pedal!

Best of strength in these times with utmost sincerity.

This thread just about made my day!

Jacob Collier may very well be the future of music. Odds are, if his sound becomes popular, the traditional western musical scale will be thought of as restrictive. His microtonal expressions are so fresh and new. I am excited for his endeavors in the Steel Guitar. Maybe he will have pedals that cha...

Landon,

I have, and it works great. The only problem I encountered is that the high frequencies tend to be a bit shrill at times. Other than that, the response is wonderful.

What interface are you using?

Landon

Look at all the smiles in the photos!

All the best to you, Andy.

It is not Smokey Rogers.

Hi,

Todd Clinesmith, who restored the guitar, posted its copedent here:

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtop ... 32eaca9903

Thank you for sharing, Andy.

Fantastic work!

The stiffness of the tone swivel plate is caused by the following factors, either independently or together: 1. Stiff pulley/ball bearings 2.Stiff potentiometer turning action The tightness of the string does not matter so long as it is tight enough to not slip from the pot when the tone plate is sw...

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Most likely a volume/tone pedal. Great video, by the way. Thanks for sharing.