Zane Beck's Universal Tuning What made Zane Beck's sound so unique? His copedent. Yes this is a Universal Tuning, probably the most compact universal tuning with the least amount of floors and knees. With just 4 Floors and 5 Knees you will find you get not only standard E9 but B6 and E7. So if it is so good how come a lot of players don't change? Very simple! "Set in their ways." There is very little tablature out there to persuade guys and girls to look at going to this tuning.  Zane Beck's Copedent as posted in 1977 Zane Beck's Last Copedant prior to his illness According to Don Fritche, prior to Zane's death he was working on making more changes to the copedent. "Cowboy" Eddie Long's New Copedent COM = String Compensators... What is the secret to Eddie's Playing? According to "Cowboy" it is the 1st pedal that makes his sounds unique. Study the copedant, and you will see that there are not many differences other than the placement of the A# in the first pedal. END