The Steel Guitar Forum

I am a novice, and I have fun with this open G tuning. No weird grips to bother with. I am planning on swapping the V and K pulls so I don't need both feet when raising note 1 to 2 while pushing A & B pedals. I play a different style to most of you, using mainly triads. Many simple tunes can be ...

Numeric copedent: | 0 | A | B | C | ----------------- | 7 | 1#| | | | 3 | | 4 | | | 1 | | | 2 | | 5 | 6 | | | | 3 | | 4 | | | 1 | | | 2 | Assume key-C ... Get Dm with all 3 pedals (2,4,6). Get full G7 with B & C pedals (2,4,5,7). If first string were 7b you would have C7 with pedals up, but wou...

Thank you very much. This is excellent information.

I am a newbie with a homemade PS which uses one-piece fingers. The nut on the lowering rod holds the open tuned finger in position. The lowering pedal moves the nut and the finger toward a tuneable back-stop thereby slackening the string. It is possible to have more than one raise with this configur...

Amateur newbie here. What I do is take a roll of wall-plastering paper tape and cut off a piece to fit the neck. Then I mark where the actual frets are with pencil by placing it on the neck. Next I mark the frets with black felt pen and a small tee square I made from scrap wood. I use the edge of a ...

Does anyone know of a 6 to 8 string resonator guitar conversion kit that is available, or a site that shows how to do a home brew job?

C#7 = C# F G# B
C#9 = C# D# F G# B
F7b5 = F A B D#
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I was mistaken in believing tension was the main cause of loss of string tonality. Therefore my equation for string life, as Jim Sliff says, "makes no sense". Here's a clip from a Spanish style guitar site: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quo...

<font face="monospace" size="3"><pre>I am a newbie, and I have made myself a mini chart of chord locations for E9 tuning. It may be helpful to other newbies. The chart is based on the minimum copedent shown below. Knee G is very helpful in obtaining a "down" (v) chord: ...

Thanks for catching my error, John. Bummer! It looks like I got the F in the wrong column first time around, then I did an edit to move it right to G#. Luckily it did not affect the reasoning in trying to put across my point of view. Copedent should be: <font face="monospace" size="3&...

PF says: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>They can't take the constant stretching from the pedals over a long period, and still keep their sustain and tuning. (snip) In the studio I change every 3 to 7 days. Guitarists change gen...

I thought the main reason people changed strings every few weeks was because the "brightness" (and I don't mean the shine)disappeared after being stretched for 24 hrs a day for that long.

More newbie thinking: I have just been analysing C6 copedents since I am in the process of building another PSG. Some guys put a D on top and some put a G on top, and keep swapping them as the mood hits them. Herby W's C6 201 book shows two extra levers for a total of three. Herby uses a G on top. A...

Thanks for the viewpoint, gentlemen. I was concerned with string brightness rather than breakage.

I am a newbie with minimum PS skills, and strange ideas, so I'd like to run something by you pros. To make strings last longer, what do you think of the idea of a precision "Slacker Latch" that would move the changer assembly 1/4 inch to the left when PSG is not in use. When the latch is p...

In a post of mine on string-9 dissonance in the "Steel Players" section (resonating with 8 and 10) Bobby Lee said: <SMALL>You don't happen to tune your 9th string to C#, do you? (Some people do.)</SMALL> Thanks Bobby! I thought I would be shooting the sacred E9 cow doing this,but now I hav...

Thanks for the explanation, John. I guess 12 stringers are even punkier. Mapquest says I am <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>Total Est. Time: 7 hours, 42 minutes Total Est. Distance: 334.34 miles</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>from you,...

Bryan Bradfield says: <SMALL>On dobro, I use a bar with quite a sharp cut-out. I do all of my single string work with a tipped bar, contacting only one string at a time.</SMALL> Newbie solution, and probably a bad idea: My bar has a bullet nose one end and a flat end on the other. How about you turn...

Charles Fager says: <SMALL>The middle finger string lines up with the indented crease between the end of my pinky and my palm, and because of this, I am having great difficulty blocking ringing for that middle finger string.</SMALL> I am a newbie to PS and may be way out of line suggesting anything ...

John Steele says: <SMALL>I have to say though, the very first thing that crossed my mind when I played it was "I wouldn't play that there...".</SMALL> Why not, John, if you did not have the discord? I don't have the insight that you pros have yet. I thought the point was to move the bar as...

Thanks guys for all the sound advice. No, Bobby, the 9th string is D. If the tune is played at fret 3 instead of 8 the effect is more noticeable. To me a 7, a 7b and a 5 don't make a nice sound. Its not a big deal since I am not playing for a living (I'd starve!) I think Lucky's solution works for m...

Thanks, Ray.
By the way, the rollers are battery post knobs.

I wound the pickup myself ... about 5000 turns of wire. You will see tape on the end where the cover started to lift. It is hummy since it is a single coil. May replace that when I can play better. There is a birch extension on the finger end since I had to stretch the return springs further than th...

OK ... I had to sign up for a photo dump place. Here are the pix. The dangling thing is the cord on the camera. I also edited out shots of my wooly sox in a couple of them. I used rubber bands to hold back the levers to get some shots. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-4/1170557/mar23-06005x.JPG h...