Most pedal steel guitarists play steel guitars with two necks.
Pedal steel change copedent.
Ralph mooney s unique pedal steel copedent.
Something we haven t really touched on much is studying other players copedent.
In the language of pedal steel guitarists the combination of string tuning and pedal knee arrangement is called a copedent pronounced ko pee dent there are nearly as many pedal steel copedents as there are steel guitarists.
If you have an older gfi with only 6 hole bell cranks use hole 6 where hole 7 is indicated on.
The copedent is the steel guitarist s way of saying this is how i tune my instrument it s a diagram showing where the pedals and levers are and what action they take on the strings.
I would rather have the change with the pedal traveling a little much and pushing a little harder than to do without the change.
The first number is the hole in the changer that the pull rod is inserted through with 1 being closest to the body.
Note on rod charts.
The e9th is the most common of all pedal steel copedents.
This can really help us in figuring out how different people play different things.
But people set their knee levers up differently.
Lloyd has pioneered many new steel sounds.
We have the two common pedal setups the jimmy day setup and the buddy emmons setup.
Music is an infinite study and the pedal steel guitar is a wonderful invention that can accommodate many different approaches to it.
E9th is the stock configuration of all single neck 10 string s 10 pedal steels and it is the front neck of double neck d 10 instruments.
The second number is the hole in the bell crank used again with 1 being closest to the body.
The reason the copedent exists for steel guitar and not other instruments is that unlike other instruments there is no standard tuning for the steel guitar.
I use tommy white s change lowering strings 5 and 6 individually which sounds awesome.
These instruments use the e9 copedent shown above on the neck farther away from the player.
It is used in all kinds of music but it excels in country.
Each pair of numbers looks like a fraction represents a pull.
Steel guitar tunings and copedents.
In case you haven t noticed the steel guitar is an instrument with a lot of compromises.
I also lower my tenth string with my c pedal.
It is the sound that the general public associates with the instrument.
Lloyd often uses the change on string one that raises f to g.
Buddy charleton s change lowering string one from f to f is very interesting.
