[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 09 May 2003 at 06:47 AM.]

quote:

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pen (rymes with Ben)

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He said it is Chord Pedal Arrangment.
Co Ped Ent, I would say.

In french it might be Coo Pa Dan ..
which might almost be obscene

but not co de pend ant
Your mileage may vary considerably.
I guess I should go peedal my bike awhile

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 09 May 2003 at 07:45 AM.]

The word is COPEDENT (not copedant, not copendent, not codependent)

And, as stated earlier, it's pronounced
co-PEE-dent
(according to Bradshaw)

(AND, David, I's scary how great minds can run in the same gutter)
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps

[This message was edited by Larry Bell on 09 May 2003 at 07:42 AM.]

1000% mega dittos.

In reading this post I am reminded of such pronunciations as:

1. Ernest Tubbs

2. Hal Ruggs

3. Miam "ah"

4. Cincinat "ah"

5. Missour "ah"

6. Illah "noise"

7. Demoinz

8. Spocaine

9. Hiwaryan

10. Grand OLD OPRAH

11. Satistics

12. Alooneemum

13. Git' TAR

14. Maysh the pedals

15. Julian Thorpe

16. Irregardless*

17. Whurr

18. Lovun

19. Cain't

20. Copendant

21. Copendent

22. Pacific (specific)

23. Uh HI ah (Ohio)

24. Leema (Lie mah, Ohio)

25. Chicargo

26. Dint, coont, shunt; or didant coodunt and shuudunt for didnt, couldnt and shouldnt.

27. "Tempered tuning" meaning Just Intonation.

28. Heighth (it IS Hite)

29. "an" for "a" such as "an" history file. THE most missused adjective of all in the media by seasoned news commentators; who should KNOW better.

30. Dale Mullen

as in:

31. Mullens

32. "you know" (when we do NOT know Reason being, he has said so many "you knows" he hasn't told us anything yet.

Have fun and God bless you all,

carl

* No such word

[This message was edited by C Dixon on 09 May 2003 at 09:34 AM.]

As I wrote many times about why I came up with this word, I simply got tired of using "set-up" to describe a player's basic tuning and the changes in that tuning when engaging pedals and knee levers. I wanted the pedal steel guitar to have nomenclature, by having identifying words and terms dedicated to it alone. Back then, as is now, "set-ups" are mixers sold by bartenders to customers who supplied their own alcohol if they wished to drink in bars in semi-dry States.

But now you are famous for it and stuck with it. So there.

Al, you old friend and out-of-work commedian, here is my "set-up":

Basic tuning: On the Rocks
A Pedal: With tonic water
B Pedal: Dash of vermouth
C Pedal: Juice of one lime
D Lever: Water back
E Lever: Ginger ale
F Lever: Drop of grenadine
G Lever: Club soda
V (vertical): Dash of pernod

Strain and stir 3 hours a day to become an killer player.

Hi Steve: No problem in not uttering the word. It has been said that the ugliest word every coined was "mange." I suspect that if a rose were called mange, it would smell just as sweet. Ooops. I'm mixing metaphors of the bard.

Yesterday I e-mailed Paul, picking his brain about the discussion here. Paul remembered that it wasn't until well into the '70s that "set-up" became a word to describe steel players' tuning and pedal arrangement. In his writings in the '60s he always used the words, "tuning chart" when talking about a player's basic tuning and the pedals that altered that tuning. And incidentally, knee levers were rarely a topic of discussion in the '60s. In my early writings I always used the phrase "tuning and pedal arrangement" to refer to a person's "set-up." It was in 1969 that I coined the copedent word, but initially spelled it "chopedent." The "h" was from the first three letters of the word, chord. Obviously, including "h" made the word's pronunciation even more difficult, so I quickly dropped that letter from its spelling after first printing it in a four-tune instructional course I published that year. Thereafter, I used the word in a 1971 reprint of my booklet, "Chord Construction For the Pedal Steel Guitarist" (originally published in 1964), in my "Anatomy of the Steel Guitar" (about 1972), in my columns for Guitar Player magazine, in articles I wrote for steel guitar club newsletters and, on the covers of albums in my old Steel Guitar Record Club and in the newsletters of my Cassette Club. Throughout that time I also saw the word pop up in various publications (including Winnie's book).

Paul remembers being intrigued by my coining of it, but viewed its importance as I did: a term dedicated exclusively to the pedal steel guitar; a word that could not be mistaken for anything other than describing something about this instrument. That was my sole purpose in making it up. …Tom

[This message was edited by Tom Bradshaw on 13 May 2003 at 09:32 AM.]

PS: Should it be "knee lever", or "knee-lever"?

OK, I'll shuttup now!

[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 13 May 2003 at 10:01 AM.]

a Beaver Cleaver Leaver !!

Stop ! My sides are beginning to hurt !!

Tom: Always the best of friends and a nice
person to boot ! Who could want more ??

ME !!

BTW here is one that really p!$$e$ me off and I hear a lot of guys use it - "knee pedal".

I am not a proponent of "mashing " pedals either.

Why do pedals go:A, B, C, Franklin, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.?

I think the use of letters in reference to knee levers should be discontinued without ceremony.

JMOHO

Happy New Year all,