A6TH on a six-string PSG?

[Tony Boadle]

I have a Hudson six-string PSG, tuned E9 without the top two and bottom two strings.
It has the two A and B pedals and the raise and lower E levers.
It's a great little guitar and suits my purposes... home recreational use only.
I mostly play my six string and eight string resos, both tuned to my favourite A6TH.
I'm just wondering if I could tune the PSG to A6TH as well? If so, what copedent would work, if any? Just a thought!

[Austin Spendlove]

On a 10 strings E9 steel, if you push pedals A and B, you get an A6 tuning. If I understand correctly, your tuning with the pedals down would be:

A
E
C#
A
F#
E

Which is an A6 tuning. Its not the most common, but the bottom 5 strings are the same as the top 5 of the popular tuning.

[Bob Carlucci]

I see no reason you could not tune to A6.. the Fender 400 guitars with 8 strings were tuned to A6 at one point.. Most were switched over to E9 over the years, but I recall some very early Mel Bay pedal steel instruction books, and they were based on the Fender 400 A6 tuning... bob

[Paul Strojan]

How adjustable is the copedent on your guitar? Could you start at A6 and lower to E9? That would give the standard pedal steel moves on the guitar.

[D Schubert]

May not directly apply, but when I was trying to use palm levers on my lap steel, I experimented with this (lo to hi)

B C# E G# B E - an E6th tuning with no pedals

B C# E A C# E - an A tuning with both pedals, 2nd and 3rd strings, engaged