Pedal Steel Change Copedent

Lloyd has pioneered many new steel sounds.

Pedal steel change copedent. I would rather have the change with the pedal traveling a little much and pushing a little harder than to do without the change. Lloyd often uses the change on string one that raises f to g. The first number is the hole in the changer that the pull rod is inserted through with 1 being closest to the body. We have the two common pedal setups the jimmy day setup and the buddy emmons setup.

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. Each pair of numbers looks like a fraction represents a pull. It is used in all kinds of music but it excels in country. These instruments use the e9 copedent shown above on the neck farther away from the player.

In case you haven t noticed the steel guitar is an instrument with a lot of compromises. 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. The e9th is the most common of all pedal steel copedents. Something we haven t really touched on much is studying other players copedent.

If you have an older gfi with only 6 hole bell cranks use hole 6 where hole 7 is indicated on. I also lower my tenth string with my c pedal. Buddy charleton s change lowering string one from f to f is very interesting. 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.

Music is an infinite study and the pedal steel guitar is a wonderful invention that can accommodate many different approaches to it. Ralph mooney s unique pedal steel copedent. It is my hope that this web site will document the past highlight current trends and point the way to a future where the pedal steel is widely accepted in all kinds of music b0b lee 2019. The neck nearer to the player is tuned to c6 and five more pedals change the pitches of the strings on this neck as shown below.

This can really help us in figuring out how different people play different things. I use tommy white s change lowering strings 5 and 6 individually which sounds awesome. 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. Note on rod charts.

Steel guitar tunings and copedents. It is the sound that the general public associates with the instrument. I like this change and sometimes i use it with my left left knee lever.