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Topic: How Many Parts To A Pedal Steel Guitar |
Kenneth Kotsay
From:
Davie/Ft Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 3:14 pm |
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Just a ballpark figure, now this could be a problem since there are many manufactures of pedal steels, and then there's the single neck and a double neck, 3 pedals, 4 pedal, 10 pedals. lots of knee levers, etc, etc.
One thing for sure a Black Mica D-10 has the most parts, I know I own 2, a EMCI & Franklin.
Opps forgot, there's a push pull & all pull steel.
What about a right handed vs left handed pedal steel.
So guys get started and count those parts on your steel. Lets see what steel has the most parts.
Ken |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 3:24 pm
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Two parts.
The top part,
and the underneath part.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Kenneth Kotsay
From:
Davie/Ft Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 3:35 pm
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Hold the mustard Chris, are you referring to a bird's eye view or a worm eye view?
Also, do not include the case or leg pouch, picks, bars, amps, ash trays, bud lite cans...........
Ken |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 3:43 pm
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I was beginning to count in my head the parts used to make different versions of push pulls, and I reminded myself that if I did not focus so much about the underneath part, I would be better at the top part.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 6:06 pm
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Which guitar the Sierra has about 800 in the changer alone - it is safe to say all changers have 4 or 5 per string plus 6 minimum per change (knee lever or pedal) plus ----- you get the idea
Joe Naylor
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 7:19 pm
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Who has that much time? 
There are probably a thousand!
A ballpark estimate: less parts than a piano, but way more than a cowbell. 
Clete |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 13 Oct 2011 7:57 am
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Not enough .
Observed in the number of people wanting to add a change to their guitar. |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2011 9:04 am
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Pedals, levers, and strings. Also tuning keys and rods. Nowadays that's all I want to pay attention to anymore.
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 13 Oct 2011 12:44 pm
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| just to contribute my ridiculous input to a ridiculous thread, keep in mind that the wound strings each are made of 3 parts..core, winding and ball end. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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John Peay
From:
Cumming, Georgia USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2011 1:16 pm
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
Not enough .
Observed in the number of people wanting to add a change to their guitar. |
Too many...I can't play the changes I've got! |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2011 1:39 pm
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On a D-10 Emmons Wraparound with an 8-4 Emmons set up and a rear apron and the new changer design with the narrower fingers and washers between the fingers I count 1189 parts counting set screws for shaft collars and stuff like that.
That does not include the case. I do not know how many parts are in a case.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2011 9:48 am
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An Emmons push pull bellcrank has seven parts to it alone.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Whip Lashaway
From:
Monterey, Tenn, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2011 3:44 pm
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Bob, does that include the strings? 
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Whip Lashaway
Sierra E9/B6 12 string
Sierra E9/B6 14 string
Excel S12 8x9 blue
Excel S12 8x9 black |
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