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Topic: Educate me please on the E9th/b6th lever for U tuning ? |
Larry Lenhart
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Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 31 Mar 2014 4:04 pm |
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| A friend of mine has an Excel (beautiful guitar, btw) that has a lever she pulls to change from E9th to B6th tuning (I think). Are they reliable. Is Excel the only steel that makes a system like this. I have never paid any attention to the Universal tunings before, but it seems interesting to me now. I assume that an Excel like this is very expensive, but with the light weight and having a double neck capability on the single neck is good. I think some of the other universals are like e9th on top and c6th on bottom, which probably wouldnt interest me, but that is my ignorance speaking there as I dont know anything about them. I am sure this has been discussed on here many times before, so a link to the appropriate discussion would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 31 Mar 2014 6:22 pm
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Actually, ALL the universals are a variant of that idea.
See, if you have an E9th neck, and lower the Es to D#, you have a B6th chord (plus an extra D string sitting there), so that if you lose the D string (and then have a pedal dropping the 8th string to D, and/or raising the 9th string B to D: many unis do both), you can have BOTH the E9th tuning and the C6th tuning (but one fret down), and then add more pedals to have most of the changes from both necks.
Reece Anderson's Bb6 tuning uses the other approach, dropping the whole tuning another fret, and then STARTING with the Es (now flatted, of course) lowered. So it's a Bb6 at rest, and then you raise the Ds to Eb for an Eb9th chord.
It's a relatively common tuning (for oddball values of "common").
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Les Cargill
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Oklahoma City, Ok, USA
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