A super picker friend of mine wanted to try out my 14 string monster. He is a heavy 6th player, so I redid the top two strings on my setup to fit his C6 habits. The result is a 6th players happiness in E,A,&B = I,IV,V.
The E9th tuning string 9 has been replaced with an X., the string 9 shown is for a common E9/B6 universal setup.
Notice that the C6\9 on the first fret has the 9th as the first string but also has a high A as the second string.
I left out of the diagram the rest of the strings for the 12 & 14 string setups as most are 10 string players. The rest of the 12 & 14 strings complete the chords and can provide 1s & 5s as the bottom strings in each chord/tuning. I have not heard his reaction to the setup yet.
...E6\9..........A6..........B6\9.....C6/9=1st fret
...NC............P1P2........E>Eb......E>Eb
1..C#=6-13...C#=3.......C#=9.....D=9
2..G#=3.......A..=1.......G#=6.....A=6
3..F#=9........F#=6.......F#=5.....G=5
4..E..=1........E..=5.......D#=3.....E=3
5..B..=5........C#=3.......B..=1.....C=1
6..G#=3........A..=1.......G#=6.....A=6
7..F#=9........F#=6.......F#=5.....G=5
8..E..=1........E..=5.......D#=3.....E=3
x..---------------------------------
9..B..=5........C#=3.......B..=1.....C=1
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by ed packard on 19 November 2002 at 03:46 PM.]</p></FONT>
6th players setup
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