Building of the E 9th Copedent

Charles Kurck · From: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home

Building of the E9th Copedent:

1932 J. D. Harlin and his brother engineered the Multii-Kord pedal steel.
1946 Epiphone added knee levers to the Varichord steel.
1952 Zane Beck adds lowering knee levers.
1953 Bud Isaacs adds E chord to A chord pedal.
1956 Buddy Emmons splits the pedal.
1957 Ralph Mooney adds high E to F# pedal.
About 1958 Jimmy Day adds middle E string.
About 1959 Ralph Mooney adds High G# string.
1962 Buddy Emmons adds high F# and D# strings.
1967 Lloyd Green adds the E’s to F Lever.
Early 1970’s Tom Bradshaw coins the word copedent.

Sources:
"Slowly" by Webb Pierce with Bud Isaacs Recorded on November 29th, 1953
http://dvanet.net/slowly.html

Pedal Steel Guitar by Winnie and Bill Keith http://www.lionelwendling.com/psgEN/historyEN.html

Who created the E9th tuning, when, and why
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum5/HTML/002738.htm

Pedal steel guitar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_steel_guitar

Buddy Emmons, Shot Jackson and the Birth of the Sho-Bud Steel Guitar
http://www.planet.eon.net/~gsimmons/shobud/buddy.html

A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
http://www.musicpi.com/buddyemmons.html

Lloyd Green Copedent http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/009217.html

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