- E9 tuning
E9 tuning is a common tuning for
steel guitar necks of more than six strings. In particular, it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two-necktable steel guitar orpedal steel guitar , most often combined withC6 tuning for the near neck, and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings.The E9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale patterns across a single fret on the 10-string pedal steel guitar.
Corresponding tunings for a six string
lap steel guitar are the E6 tuning E-Gmusic|sharp-B-Cmusic|sharp-E-Gmusic|sharp, or E7 tuning B-D-E-Gmusic|sharp-B-E.A popular E9 tuning for eight string
table steel guitar is the "western swing " tuning E-Gmusic|sharp-B-D-Fmusic|sharp-Gmusic|sharp-B-E, low to high and near to far.The standard "Nashville" E9 tuning for ten string
pedal steel guitar is B-D-E-Fmusic|sharp-Gmusic|sharp-B-E-Gmusic|sharp-Dmusic|sharp-Fmusic|sharp."Nashville Tuning" can also refer to the practice of tuning the wound EADG strings on a standardly tuned six-string guitar an octave higher. This is usually achieved by replacing the standard-gauge string with the equivalent octave string from a 12-string set.
The
Pink Floyd song "Hey You" from their album "The Wall ", and the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind " from the album "Point of Know Return " are notable for using this form of guitar tuningFact|date=July 2008.External links
* [http://www.b0b.com/tunings/ Steel guitar tunings] indexes many tunings.
In Gilmour's case on "Hey You," he actually replaced the low E string with a second high E (not a 12 string set low E octave) such that when he tuned the low E, it was actually 2 octaves up.
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