The Steel Guitar Forum

Friends, have it your own ways: I've never stopped to ask who was using what tuning method. Good playing is good playing. All of this for audiences that largely can't tell what neck you are on? Hair splitting for the sake of hair splitting. My 2 cents..... Sure, Gary, I had no interest myself until...

Thank you folks! I tried the Newman tuning and preferred it to unsweetened in many chords but found a few nasty dissonances (as I perceived them) - especially the 4th string in BC pedal (root 7 string) minor chords & in some harmonies involving the F pedal. I'm not assuming other folks don’t d...

They look very like the legs on my Emmons Black Rock...

Fred Justice wrote:What Mikey M. said.
There is no way to tell the age of your legs.

Usually the same age as your arms, nose etc...

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I'm new to this and experimenting with sweetened tunings. I guess that sweetened tuning offsets are specified wrt equal temperament? I can’t believe sweetened tuning offsets are specified wrt just intonation, because tuners do not all offer it, although part of my brain feels that would strictly m...

Thank you Gene & Richard, I'll look at those tomorrow, including close double checking against your drawings Richard, which are sincerely appreciated...

R

OK folks, in tune, thank you! Sincerely. I can play. Big win. ⇨ BUT ⇦ My E to D# is backed right out (I could not go flatter on the drop if I needed to, now there's a tiny air gap to screw even with lever operated). This surely is not be how I should have ended up. What have I got wrong? Please ...

Brilliant, Richard, ༺ Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ༻

Gene, thank you, is that 'Methodology and Practice in Pedal Steel Guitar'? I have it and the DVDs. I consulted it but struggled to confidently apply it. Indeed I got in this specific mess doing my best to follow simpler instructions than that booklet, which is why I thought I should stop, take a bre...

Thank you, Norman, I have had that printed out and on my wall for a year now, with another copy fixed to a clipboard :-) That pinned OP is wrt an instrument which is well set up but just needs minor tuning: I somehow got way beyond that. Further down the thread there is some supplementary advice I t...

Thank you, Craig, I'll give it a go!

I'm in the UK & it’s getting late, so probably after a good night's sleep...

Much appreciated,
Rob

Folks, sorry, I messed up & need help. I'm an inexperienced 10 string E9 player with a push-pull even newer to me than PSG overall. I was tuning one of my two knee levers E⇨F, E⇨D# I ended up either turning the wrong cap screw or turning a mile in the wrong direction, then lost track of what...

Thank you, Jerry...

Great, Dave, thank you!

EDIT: ordered!

Excellent, fine tuning seems so right there... I'll maybe put in an order with psgparts.com

RB,

I'll indeed do that - I actually already have, roughly - I just thought there must surely be a more precise 'proper' way to do it!

Thank you,

R

Thank you folks - I'll look into that advice Lynn, much appreciated. What I'm not understanding (and I realise this may be super-clueless of me) is that my A pedal raise is in tune and my C pedal raise on the same string is flat. What I read in the sticky was this: 3. The Third Procedure (tuning the...

I'm a new player and in the UK which is a land where the PSG is a fairly rare thing. I have recently bought an Emmons Black Rock, upgraded long ago to 3P 4L. I have found the forum sticky about tuning a push-pull very helpful but am puzzled by string 5 tuning for the A vs C pedals. What I expected h...

Oh yeah, it’s a *lot* better. I'll have to live with it to figure whether it’s 60% or 90% better, but way better for sure

For these kind of issues, luthier forums can be really useful.
Also StewMac might offer advice:
https://www.stewmac.com/SiteSearch/?search=glue
https://www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_R ... d_why.html

The reality check has itself been very useful. *Thank you again* I realised the pedals were kinda drooping, unpressed hanging about as low as adjustment allowed, with the stop screws in the corresponding chassis mechanism backed all the way out. I've reset them to pretty much the opposite end of the...

Thank you, Donny

I'm very grateful for the steer.
I'll certainly try to figure where the mechanical issues are...

I have a fairly 'Frankenstein' old PSG, with only A & B pedals and 3 levers. The levers have a good 'hard stop' and bends hit pitch just fine. The pedals are kinda stiff and it's very hard to feel a 'stop'. It feels like there's sort of a stop but if you push a bit harder, which is getting crazy...

Just thought to offer a heads up to a couple of apps I found. One which I really find invaluable for looking up chords and creating chord diagrams is on my Android phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhill.pedalSteel There's nothing so good for Apple devices, but there is this: ...