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Topic: To lower or not to lower, that is the question.. |
Tony Boadle
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Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 3:08 pm |
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Quick question....could I lower my Es on this Maverick without too much trouble? I'm planning to make my own lever assembly...unless I'm told it won't work in advance!
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Tony Boadle
From:
Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 3:18 pm Another pic
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 3:35 pm
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I would suggest with a primitive instrument like this that instead of lowering 4 & 8 (which involves raising and lowering 4 - complicated) you lower 2 & 8 (to D & D#). This was the first knee lever change to be added to early guitars and you can do a lot with it. All you need is a spring to hold 2 & 8 in the raised position - you can yoke them together like the existing pairs - and a lever to work against it.
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Tony Boadle
From:
Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 3:50 pm Lowering
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| Ok, let me get my head around that and come back to you tomorrow (GMT! I love it, lol![/code] |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 8:26 pm
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You can do it, but it gets tricky. Use a pivoting link with a spring pulling it back. Richard Burton and Chris Lucker have put up pics of people getting quite clever.
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 21 Dec 2014 10:00 pm
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This is the basic principle for a single rod pull-release mechanism.
Tune the open note (in this case E) at the knee lever 'rest' position |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 22 Dec 2014 4:25 am
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just as a heads-up or maybe an FYI...Yes you can figure out how to drop those E's with some ingenuity and a few parts..BUT...if you can't keep it in tune when you drop those E's you will not be a happy camper.
The reason players step up to PRO Guitars is the changers are proven, they stay in tune with the raises and the lowers, they come back to pitch.
Can you modify a student guitar such as a Maverick, ? Of course you can. But the real question will be, does it return to pitch each time you access that E lever, which is gonna be a lot !
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Bill Moore
From:
Manchester, Michigan
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Posted 23 Dec 2014 6:12 am
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| Tony, I just posted a reply to your thread in the Wanted section. I see you do have the tuning screws behind the changer fingers. It would be easy to install a lever to lower 2 and 8 or maybe just lower 8. See my reply to you other post. If you want to lower both 4 and 8, you have to figure out a way to work with the C pedal raise on 4. To both raise and lower it you need to do something like Richard suggested, establish a neutral position for the changer finger. But you could probably find an east way to raise both 4 and 8 while also having the c pedal raise. |
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