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Topic: Roy Wiggins tuning |
Bill R. Baker
From:
Clinton, MS USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2005 7:49 pm |
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| A friend of mine who played guitar for Roy when he played in Meridian wanted me to ask some member of the Forum to give him Roy's tunings. He was playing a double neck guitar. My friend is not interested in the tuning of each string but the title of the overall tuning - E, C6th, A, etc. I will pass it on to him. Thanks. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2005 2:44 pm
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| Moved to "No Peddlers", because Little Roy wasn't known as a pedal player. |
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Fernando Fernandez
From:
Cadiz,Spain
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Posted 23 Feb 2005 3:03 pm
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| I believe he used E , E7th, C# and finally E13th [This message was edited by Fernando Fernandez on 23 February 2005 at 03:09 PM.] |
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Don E. Curtis
From:
St Louis, Missouri, USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Feb 2005 3:11 pm
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Bill, as per the "Little" Roy Wiggins Memory Time album the tuning was E13th: high to low with string gauges as follows,
#1) G# .010
#2) E .014
#3) C# .017
#4) B .017
#5) G# .020
#6) E .030w
#7) D .034w
# B .036w
But when I met Roy at the Opry in '90 he had a low E on the 8th string and had both necks tuned the same just in case he broke a string. I later had the honor of doing Roy's charts and playing Bass for him at the I.S.G.C.
Hope this helps,
Don |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 23 Feb 2005 4:45 pm
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Don is correct. I worked for Little Roy, at his "Music City" music store on lower Broadway in the 71/72 timeframe.
I used to restring his guitar. Also got to pick rhythm for him - he preferred "open" rhythm.
It was great just meeting Roy, let alone working for him as he was the one that inspired me to play steel. Back in the early 50's I had a doubleneck 6 string Oahu. |
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Bill R. Baker
From:
Clinton, MS USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 8:12 am
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| Thanks Don and Jack. I am sending a copy of this to my friend who requested it. Sorry Bob I put this in the wrong place. |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 8:27 am
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| Jack. what is 'open' rhythm? |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 8:36 am
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How do you break a string on a lap steel that's not being retuned to different tunings? Even then, I've rarely if ever broken a string!
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 12:31 pm
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Randy,
I'm not Jack but I believe open rhythm is when you do not fret all the strings ie: some of the strings are played "open" as opposed to "bar" chords or 6th string chords. I prefer the bar chords myself.
Erv |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 1:23 pm
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| You're right "open" cords are not barred. However I did have to play bar chords for Roy when he played the instrumental version of the "The Cattle Call" that he said they used for a theme song. He played that in Bb or B (don't remember it's been over 30 years ago). |
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Jennings Ward
From:
Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Feb 2005 1:32 pm
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I CANT RESIST.... BLUEGRASSERS USE "OPEN" CHORDS WITH A CAPO....MUSICIANS USE BAR CHORDS AND THROW THE D*** CAPO AWAY..... MAKES A BETTER SOUND..........JENNINGS...
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