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I spent quite a while last night looking for an app or a video that just plays the strings.

All I'm looking for is a video where someone is playing each strings few times, as if you and a pal were sitting together
with each of your pedal steels, and you are tuning to him.

I'm not looking for history of tuning or why E9 exists, or
how difficult it is to tune. I found enough of those.

Thanks,

hey bob I think you are like me a beginning steeler I hve 2 steels a carter starter and a marlen doubleneck a e9 neck and a c6 neck getting started is tough I found a carter video that came with my carter had to buy a dvd player to watch it it told step by stephow to tune the carter it is basic and simple see if you can getahold ofone of those it is called a carter quickvidio it willdefinaely help another struggling beginner dennis n brown

Thanks Dennis,

I'm fine with the tuning process with a tuner, I'm not having any trouble at all. What I want is the actual played strings to tune to, when I have changed strings.
It is just quicker to bring them up to pitch.

Then I can go on to fine tune the pedals etc., with the cents tuner that I have.

Bob Fraser wrote:I spent quite a while last night looking for an app or a video that just plays the strings.

All I'm looking for is a video where someone is playing each strings few times . . . ,

If ten players on here did that, you'd have ten different pitches for each string because of all the different variations and opinions on how to tune this thing. Some tune using "equal temperament," some use "just intonation." For those who don't tune "straight up," no one has universally agreed just how many cents a certain string should be intentionally flattened or sharped. The closest thing is Jeff Newman's chart on his site. I recommend a Peterson tuner with a sweetened pedal steel setting.

Do you have a record function on your device? I recorded the string tones on my various instruments for that very reason. It works great.

bob hatis what the carter video does they show you howto tune the steel and actuly play each string and a lot more stuff soit wouldbeworth your time to get one it is a excellent reference to use as one of the other replys no one seems to tune the same so pick what you like and stay with it so if you want some thing to tell you when your string sounds right the video willdo that

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9p4iKWKisY might be close to what you mean.

I think I have one for the S-12U tuning around here someplace with all the open & pedal changes. I kept
it in case my old Korg died on me!!

Ernie Pollock
301-264-4172

Bob Fraser wrote:Thanks Dennis,

I'm fine with the tuning process with a tuner, I'm not having any trouble at all. What I want is the actual played strings to tune to, when I have changed strings.
It is just quicker to bring them up to pitch.

Then I can go on to fine tune the pedals etc., with the cents tuner that I have.

I use 2 different methods of changing sets of strings. If I have to clean and polish under the strings, I leave 10th string on. Then start on string 9, and after you get that in tune with the B string, you can tune it up to pitch.

If I don't need (or want) to clean under the strings, I just start with string 1 and go through to 10. You always have a string to tune to, an d then tune it to pitch.

Both methods work for me.