Talk:E9 tuning

The Wall

The fact that both Pink Floyd and Kansas have hits called "The Wall" has nothing to do with E9 tuning... Tbonetime (talk) 13:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usable On Regular 6 Strings Too

Apparently this form of tuning - Nashville tuning - can sometimes be found on regular acoustic (or electric) guitars too.

Two guitars, one tuned regularly, one tuned for Nashville using appropriate gauge strings, can achieve a 12-string-like sound when strummed in unison.

However, the Nashville-tuned guitar is not generally suitable for picking out a melody in exactly the same way as would be done on the regularly-tuned guitar, since there are octave jumps involved.

Guitarist Justin Sandercoe offers an example in a video tutorial in his lesson TB-505. AncientBrit (talk) 08:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"The standard Nashville E9 tuning for ten string pedal steel guitar is B-D-E-F♯-G♯-B-E-G♯-D♯-F♯."

If this tuning contains a D# as well as the D natural, it shouldn't really be called "E9 tuning", should it? A D# is the major ninth. It's a contradictory tuning. Oh, well, if that's what people call it, I guess that's what it is . . . .

--Ben Culture (talk) 22:30, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ben, The D is a flat 7th; The D# is a major seventh, not a ninth. The F# is the ninth. See ref by Charles Kurck in the article. Eagledj (talk) 15:25, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]