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CrowBear-Thanks for the tip about the chord finder. I will check in to that for sure.

I would like to add my applause to Cory for going in to music therapy. What a worthwhile and humane calling.

Mike Ihde was just starting to bring country music to Berklee when I was there, and just starting out on PSG as I recall. Steve Plotkin played fiddle with him. A teacher named Hank Wictorowicz (?) had a ShoBud Maverick for sale that I wanted really bad, but I didn't have the cash. Another teacher had a 7 string Benedetto for $1,400! I didn't have the jack for that either. Dang the luck.

David, Ernie Renn runs BE's site

Ok but it seemed he was involved. It wasn't totally clear to me Oh well.

Here's a link to a 6th tuning chord chart: http://dogriverpub.com/trap/chords.pdf

Kudos to Trap Truly for posting this on his website at: http://dogriverpub.com/trap/trap.htm

He lists string grips too, but in my expirience, you just need the pedal lever combos to get you started on your chord finding quest, then grab a handful of strings a "season to taste" as they say! Many cool voicings are there depending on the grip or "rake".

For conversion to U12, count your string 12 as string 10, and count up from there. Depending on your tuning, the top three strings on U12 are what the C6th guys would call "G on top" (F# for us), "D on top" (C# for us [typically D# lowers to C# when you lower your E to Eb]), and in addition, S12U gets you the high G# (.011, B pedal).

Neil Flanz also has an incredible C6th chord finding book, and his web site is: http://www.ambrec.com/Homepages/neil/neil.htm
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Pete Burak on 06 March 2003 at 12:06 PM.]</p></FONT>

Neil's site didn't work, but Trap's chart is very useful. I imagine I will do every position on it as a cycle very slowly to find chords and practice picking and grips.
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Disclaimer:
I emailed Trap today about a chord position on his chart, and he emailed back saying there are a few mistakes in it.
Just an FYI.

i found KA's Guitar Map Display http://home.attbi.com/~kabolins/guitarmap.html
or this one http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum8/HTML/001290.html

Hi CB saw it, nice lil program. But it seems to be Win 98. I am mac's and one twin processor Win 2K 3D machine. I don't know if it will run on 2K.

David
I've run Karlis' application on Win2K -- it's just a VB app and runs on most any Mickysoft platform.

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2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps

David, you might check out my old Chordfinder program at http://www.aum.iawf.unibe.ch/port/ma/hh/CHORD.HTM

Hey, that chord finder of Karlis' is pretty cool. Haven't had much of chance to play with it yet, but methinks there will be much good use made of it. Good on Karlis for the program, and CrowBear for finding it!

I installed Karls app no problem, but then installed TSSTalk ro make the PC talk to my MAc's and It freaked out and I haven't had the time to get my head back into PC land and suss it out.
PC totally dead Mac's running as usual. But I am sure it wasn't Karls App.
I'll see it some time.