The Peterson StroboPlus HD (SP-1) is THE premier desktop digital tuner on the market! Equally as comfortable on a tech’s workbench as it is in a player’s guitar case, this tuner, with all of its features, is no exception to Peterson’s reputation for being THE most accurate in the industry - don’t let its demure palm size fool you! Players of both acoustic and electric instruments can rest assured- a built-in electret condenser microphone and ¼” input jack provide excellent connectivity. The first string, if you’re right-handed, is located furthest away from you when sitting behind the steel in the normal playing position, plug your tuner into the steel and select the S-E9 preset. There is no need to note any settings or use any charts.īegin with E9 tuning. Peterson Tuners have been used for many decades to tune the open strings, pedals and levers on pedal steel guitars, they are programmable and already feature several preset tuning settings for steel guitars using accepted systems like those originally devised by Jeff Newman and Emmons for E9, C6 and Universal tuning. No matter what method you use, an accurate tuner is a necessity. Some players tune “straight up” meaning that the major thirds are sharp and the minor thirds are flat, but most prefer not to forego the sweetness of these intervals and tune them so that they are totally beat-less and consonant. The flaws of Equal temperament reveal themselves primarilly when major or minor thirds are played, and the long sustained tones produced by the pedal steel guitar show up these flaws more than pretty much any other instrument, many players aim and strive to eliminate these flaws by tuning their steels using special cent offsets for each string.
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Many seasoned professional steel players “tweak” their tuning to improve their sound we call this “Sweetened Tuning”.īecause the steel guitar is a fretless instrument, it does not need to conform to the same compromises as regular fretted guitar is subjected to. Setting up and tuning a pedal steel can be a daunting task without a special tuner designed for pedal steel guitar tuning. The most common pedal steel guitars have 10 strings, followed by Universal 12 string instruments which purport to offer the same versatility as a double 10 string instrument, 8 stringed instruments were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they are less popular nowadays.Ĭentral to the pedal steel guitar is its ability to change tunings mid song with the help of foot pedals and knee levers which change the tension on the open strings thereby altering the tuning. you don't have the time.The pedal steel guitar is usually tuned to either E9 or C6 - or both in the case of a double neck, but there are other tunings. I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down! Got $1200 out of one and $1400 for the other, and both were VERY nice guitars. I have sold 2 MSA lacquer guitars in the past 2 years. Try posting it at $1500 and see what happens, but be flexible in your expectations. I bought a gorgeous condition S10 Lacquer last year at $1400 and Micas always bring several hundred dollars less. If I had one, I would start at $1200 and hope for $1100. I would say an average condition MICA MSA might possibly get you $1200, $1300 on a great day, but I have my doubts. I have bought several Maple/Lacquer MSA guitars over the years, some in dead mint condition and never paid more than $1500, usually a lot less. the maple body MSA steels sustain and sound a lot better to most ears. Old MICA MSA steels are much less desirable than the Maple body versions. Try it and see what happens, but I would be surprised if you get a bite. In the case of a MICA body MSA that "shows its age" $1500 is asking a lot. Have to disagree with our good friend Donny.