What kind of lap steel and tuning?

r u talkin bout the one dave used in high hopes ? oh if its so.. then its hawain guitar.. i guess it too use std tunin.

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Dave plays Jensen lap steels & they are 6 -string. They're fitted with EMG pickups & use "open tunings", of course. The first lap steel is tuned to EBEGBE (E minor) for "One of These Days" and "High Hopes," while the second one is tuned to DGDGBE for "Great Gig in the Sky." Gilmour has said this tuning allows him to form a minor chord on the three strings and a major chord with all the other strings. i.e., he can play either DGDGB which is G major (open) and obviously other major chords up the neck, or GBE which is E minor(open) etc. etc. Clever boy, our Dave.

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your the man I've been looking for!
makes sense to me.You can play a lot of stuff in open G(Keith Richards knows this)and of cause E is the relative minor of G.
Played together I believe(G/Em) it comes out as G6th.E being the 6th note of the G scale.At lest ,that is what I remember in music class.Correct me if I'm full of air.
Thanks again!!

ps I've got two lap steels(6 and 8 string).I'm tuning the 6 string to DG's way and plugging in @ hi-watt.

You're right & you're welcome.


BTW, anyone wanting to emulate "Keef" and tune to open G, it is
DGDGBD.

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One question.
Do you now what tuning uses Dave for "breathe" on DSOTM (studio), with the steel guitar?

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He uses the same tuning as with "Great Gig", noted above--
DGDGBE

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Oh thanks.
I guess he used the same steel guitar. But somewhere i've read that he used a steel pedal too, or something like that. Do u know what is it?

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I wasn't aware of his using a pedal steel, but I'm certainly no expert on his equipment.

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