Pedal Steel Statistics

Sherman Willden · From: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

I am looking for all the pedal and knee lever combinations notated in a statistical manner.

I own a single 12 string with 7 pedals and 5 knee levers. In the most basic form I have 14 pedal positions and 9 knee positions. So if I have (7 x 14) x (5 x 9) I have 4410 possible positions if my math is correct. To give an example of how I arrived at the pedal positions I noted that pedal 1 has 2 positions; e.g. pedal 1 raises string 5 one whole step and string 9 one whole step. Pedal 2 has one position in that it only raises strings 3, 6, and 10 a half step. So pedal 1 = 2 for a whole step and pedal 2 = 1 for a half step. Pedal 4 decrements string 12 by a triple lower so pedal 4 = 3 for a step and a half.

How do I account for the fact that pedal 4 decrements string 12 by one and a half step, string 11 by only a half step, and raises string 9 by a half step? I can see that as a string/pedal/knee lever combination that must be accounted for. If that statement is true then the combinations will be an extremely high number.

What would be the statistics on a basic 10-string 3X4?

Thanks in advance;

Sherman

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