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I found a few of my deceased father's pedal steel guitar tunings. Three I don't know as to what tuning they are and the other two are a G7 tuning and E9th Nashville tuning.

Could anyone help me disect what he wrote so that I could type these and make a more legible copy?

He wrote things like KPEB, PA, KPG#, KP-F or C, pedal GGII(or maybe SGII) and some things in pencil. I'm not sure what these mean. Also, I'm not sure but could it be that on the G7th and E9th tunings that he has the tunings for pedals that are pressed down?

Here are the tunings; If I can answer any questions, please send me a private message.


http://i.imgur.com/gRr1Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/m5bfE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sxIIT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LtI84.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tnfrV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FT1sb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uBrT6.jpg

©Jason Bergeron

Hello Jason!
Not sure, but I think that KP would possibly stand for Knee Pedal instead of Knee Lever. PA would stand for pedal A. Any thing after Pedal name would be the note that it moves the string, Lowering or raising to the target note.

This is my first impression of things. I have had some old friends that played steel that in conversation with them referred to the Knee Levers as Knee Pedals.

I hope this is of some help!

Jason, your dad, Nelson Bergeron, played the setup of G7th on the bottom neck and standard E-9th on top with the Emmons pedal setup. I did some work on his guitar once lowering the first 4 strings of the bottom neck a whole step.

His G7th was standard G tuning from the first string G,D,B,G,E as he didn't use his pedal to raise his 5th string up. He kept it tuned to E already.

I think some of his notes there were the intention to lower his E-9th to D-9th if memory serves me correctly.

I sure miss your Dad! He was tops in my book and taught me a great deal playing in his shop.

Hope this helps!
Dave

Thank's to all who helped me with these tunings! I now understand what he wrote on these lists of tunings.

Jason, that's some cool stuff. I have some things like that from my Dad... We have his late sixties D-10 Emmons push pull... He's been gone 22 years, hard to believe..