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... keep thinking out loud... but in the meantime:
What do most players do for the minor key? Combination of pedal and knee lever seems clunky. I’ve found the 7th string plus a and b pedals but to be able to drop the 6th a semitones with just one action would be fab.

Thanks to Ken Byng. The stop was not stopping the lever. It seems I don’t have that one-action minor chord after all. Damn.
Many thanks to all here for their efforts, much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/vwcQ8j5mvDk

If a picture paints a thousand words, how many does a video paint?

A little different. The lever lowering the G# to F# also has a further movement that raises the same string up a semitones if pushed further past the stop.
I need to do some more research, it seems.

My original post states that this is not a pedal/lever combo, just a lever. Or am I misunderstanding something? Will post a video when I’m back in the studio.

I can make the string lower a whole tone with the white nut. The green nut now raises it when I push through the feel stop, but the lower whole tone is now sharp again.

Thanks for your patience gentlemen: I need a little more of it:-) I've done what was suggested and then used the white nut to tune the string to Natural when both raise and lower functions are engaged. Now, the green nut will only raise the note, not lower it.

I’ve tried it a couple of times without success. When you say “detune” do you mean slacken off the hex nylon nuts completely? I’ve emailed you at your site too: a Manual would be most useful, thanks.

and it didn't work:-(

I hate predictive text.

Thanks: that’s different to the Manila I have but much appreciated:-)

Ok, will do:-)

Thanks: there are two nylon hex bolts that are attached to the string: the upper one is green. I have tried adjusting them both but they affect each other so getting the whole time in tune the semitones is flat and if I get the semitones in tune the whole time is out.

Hi all, I've searched for this but without success so hoping you can help me. I have a Zumsteel Encore. The knee lever that puts the 6th string down a tone from G# to F# has a further action if you push it past the "feel stop:" it makes the G# a G natural: I love it but I can't figure out ...