Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: M.Ted
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:36 AM

If you have any idea who it was that made the instrument, or had it made, check with them, at least for reference, and see what tuning and playing styles they had in mind when the instrument was made.

Check this link, Tunings and browse around the site a bit, because it gives not only tunings(it seems like every steel player has his own tuning)) but some good background on what the advantages of different tunings are, as well as some insight into what the whole process of steel playing is about.

There are a lot of very informative steel-related websites--also, in case you don't realize it, lap steel and console steel are pretty much the same animal, and the playing and tunings will be the same. A pedal steel is a bit different, since tunings are often the way they are because of the chord changes it allows with a pedal or level change--

I am not a steel player, but have worked with a number of them and have always been impressed with how involved instrument the instrument is--you have to like figuring stuff out, and you have to know exactly what you are doing all the time, because otherwise, you're lost--

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: HiHo_Silver
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:39 AM

To M Ted: This is a custom made steel guitar. Stands on Legs with one pickup and tone and volume controls. No company name or builder. presume it was hand made by someone. Do not even know what to use for a proper string set in this situation. Have been told that the tuners and pickup are from a Sho-Bud ten string pedal.

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: M.Ted
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:38 PM

Is this guitar an Epiphone lap steel? If so, you may have an Eddie Alkire EHarp(pronounced Ay-harp)--it was a pre-pedal steel effort to create a fuller harmonic sound, and the tuning was supposed to be: -
(lowest pitched strings on the bottom, as they would be on your lap)

E
C#
B
A
G#
G
F#
F
E
C#

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: M.Ted
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 07:53 PM

The link above is for pedal steel tunings, which are not necessarily helpful--what kind is it? A lot of times, these guys were made with a particular player and tuning in mind--

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 06:18 PM

Try this(low to high;

G B D E G A B D F# G

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 12:33 AM

Check this site. Gotta be some ideas in there somewhere.

Have fun.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Tech: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:11 PM

Well, I could invent one, but I am sure there is a standard somewhere....I just don't know what it is!!

Subject: Tech: Tuning 10 string non pedal steel guitar
From: HiHo_Silver
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 07:58 PM

Can anyone suggest or know of a tuning for a 10 string non pedal steel guitar which would work well for country and gospel music. Thanks