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Topic: Expanding 8 strings to 9 or 10 or more? |
Don McClellan
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California/Thailand
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Posted 5 Feb 2002 11:11 am |
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| Anybody got any interesting thoughts on this for C6th? Thanks, Don |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2002 11:02 am
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If yer talkin no pedals and I assume you are,Billy Robinson has a 10 string lap with just basically a regular 10 string pedal C6 tuning except he takes off the low C and moves everything down so he can have a G and a D on top.He seems to get a lot going on that setup(low to hi:F,A,C,E,G,A,C,E,G,D).If I had a 10 string lap this is what I'd put on it low to hi: Bb,C#,E,G,A,C,E,G,B,D
The first and second strings would be out of order like the chromatic strings on an E9 so as to preserve the core C6 tuning.About half the time I would tune the ninth string to a C natural - depending on the song.You could also drop your tenth string down to A once in a while for a nice A11 tuning.Of course w/12 strings,you could have those two extra notes all the time.A lot of guys when they're scheming on tunings,are looking for extra upper extensions but I think that adding extra chromatic bass notes can be even slicker.Then you can play "slash chords" which can sub for some deep altered chords - as well as giving internal motion on the low end of things - which I find appealing. -MJ- |
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Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2002 2:37 pm
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Don: I have a homemade lap steel with 10 strings on it, I made it out of an old door jam!! Its my favorite, and a work in progress as I am always changing it. I tune it just like C6th with a D note on the top, now when I play a song in the key of E, I tune the 9th string F to an E, lets me use the open string then just tune it back to F when I am done with it. picture, I think! This may be a picture of it, looks kinda junky, but I just got some nice formica from a friend so its back to the drawing board, but I will keep my C6th on it one way or the other!!
Ernie http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75 
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Don McClellan
From:
California/Thailand
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Posted 16 Feb 2002 3:09 pm
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| Ernie, That's great. I like the Kline fret board (I play a Kline U12). What does that toggle switch do? |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 16 Feb 2002 3:21 pm
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| I think the toggle switch is for the doorbell. |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2002 3:03 pm
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Don: I will answer that question here, the fellow below said it might be a doorbell, great idea, never thought of that. That is a singel coil pickup made by a fellow that bought a pedal steel form me out in California somewhere, his name has slipped my mind, he actually sent me two of those, they have coil taps so there are three distintly different sounds with that pickup, cook huh? As to the lovely Kline fretboard, that was off my old 12 String Kline Universal that I had back in the 80's, had this awful habit of hanging my fingers out over the board when I picked and it got scratched real bad, so I got a new one from Joe Kline back then, and used the junker one on this guitar, as you can see, that is 'contact paper covering part of that fretboard, so the 12 string width wouldn't mess me up. When you play as badly as I do, you must do everything to make things work!!
All joking aside, I have had a blast with that thing, its a real gas, guess I got about $35 or $40 dollars in it. think I will build a few more now, I have some other ideas and a couple of fretboards!!
Ernie mailto:GFIsteel@hotmail.com
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