"Ask Bud!"

Here is a Universal Tuning

which is great for older pedal steel guitars.

While it will do most everything that Jeff Newman's Tuning does, it only requires a Double-Raise/Double-Lower mechanism. Since it requires only 5 pedals, normal knee lever spacing may be used and an extra long veritical lever is not needed. The C Pedal equivalent is A+B+RKL. The Pedal 6 equivalent is acheived by engaging LKR, while releasing RKL. (With Triple-Raise/Triple or Double-Lower, P6 raises String 4 back to E and lowers String 8 to D.)

Thanks to Ron Bear for the basic idea and copedant, which we have modified.

 Open               Pedals                    Knee Levers
Tuning      1    2    3    4    5       LKL  LKV  LKR  RKL  RKR
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  F#                      (G)*     
  Eb                                                D        C#
  G#             A
  E                                      F              F#   Eb
  B         C#                  C#            Bb
  G#             A              A#
  F#                       F
  E                                      F          D        Eb
  B         C#        C
  G#             A
  E                   Eb   F             F
  B                   G#   C#
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