Newbie Questions
Hi. I recently purchased a Guyatone Pedal Steel on Facebook Marketplace, where it was described as a student model. It has 8 strings, 3 pedals and no knee levers of any kind. I’m a complete steel newbie, but have played regular guitar for over 40 years.
I’ve been reading up on how to set this up for E9 tuning. I think I understand how to read a copedent diagram, but am unsure how I would set up the circumstance where the chart refers to one string that can be bent by 2 different pedals (for example the C#). Would I just add another locking collar and spring to the bar for the 2nd pedal? Or is there another way to do this? Wouldn’t doing that mean that the 2nd pedal would always bend both the strings that the 1st pedal bends too? Maybe this is the intent, but I’m not clear.
Hope someone wiser than me can advise, thanks in advance.