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Topic: Picking strings up in the keyhead |
Bob Sykes
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North Carolina
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Posted 4 Mar 2019 3:03 pm |
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Last night I was playing around with some high gain textural sounds (a la Daniel Lanois) and got to picking the strings on the wrong side of the rollers. I notice that strings 3 & 7 produce a note (perfectly in tune) 3 octaves higher than the open string. Is this common? Guitar is Carter E9 SD10. I'm going to try and find a way to incorporate it in my playing 
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 5 Mar 2019 1:44 am
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Bob,Another thing that you may want to try?get an old Lawrence acoustic guitar pickup "the very thin one"and place it at the first fret,you will get some amazing sounds when you blend that with your guitars pickup,Red Rhodes showed that to me.
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 5 Mar 2019 6:17 am
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Try picking behind your bar @ frets, 5,7,12, if you're into different sounds.
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 5 Mar 2019 8:33 am
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| I notice that strings 3 & 7 produce a note (perfectly in tune) 3 octaves higher than the open string. Is this common? |
Supposedly, a couple of guitar have been designed with this in mind...to enhance harmonic sustain. But I have one of those guitars, and I really notice no difference in sustain compared to most other good guitars. As far as "playing" those strings behind the nut, I think the enhancement and variety it might add would be quite limited. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2019 8:48 am
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| Stu Schulman wrote: |
| Bob,Another thing that you may want to try?get an old Lawrence acoustic guitar pickup "the very thin one"and place it at the first fret,you will get some amazing sounds when you blend that with your guitars pickup,Red Rhodes showed that to me. |
Jerry Sentell in Sacramento makes pickups that will do the same thing, the NC-17 and NC-18:
https://sentellpickups.net/Steel.html |
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