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John Booth


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Columbus Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 4:16 am    
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I keep looking at Emmons guitars but I haven't seen any SKH's I keep hearing about.
Does anyone have the pics or specs so I can see the difference?
Thanks,
JB
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Billy McCombs


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Bakersfield California, USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 4:46 am    
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Here's mine.


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John Booth


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Columbus Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 5:15 am    
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Thanks Billy, but where's the difference?
Is it in body length, or the tuning head assembly?
JB
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Mike Kowalik

 

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San Antonio,Texas
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 6:10 am    
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The difference is in the length of the key head....SKH = Short Key Head....
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Dick Sexton


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Greenville, Ohio
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 6:12 am     Skh/lkh
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John notice the Key Head on Billy's is about 4 frets long... And in this one, http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=280497 the Key Head is about 5 1/2 frets long. That is the difference. Some say one is desired over the other.
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Jim Pitman

 

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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 6:50 am    
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Considering one of the primary reasons the keyless guitar came about was to shorten the length of string behind the roller nuts to reduce hysteresis, is the SKH the more desirable one?
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Skip Edwards

 

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LA,CA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 6:59 am    
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Besides the key head being shorter, the changer surround is different than later LeGrandes.
This particular gtr also has p/p style pedals.

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Olli Haavisto


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Jarvenpaa,Finland
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 8:48 am    
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I've read somewhere that the SKH Le Grandes and and push/pulls used the same bodies.
For awhile they were both available, the p/p as the " Emmons Original".
True or false?
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chris ivey


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california (deceased)
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 9:20 am    
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isn't the skh body shorter than the later models?

the bottom line is: go practice like tommy white did and none of this matters.
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John Booth


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Columbus Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 10:23 am    
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OK, I see. Mine must not be an SKH as it is about 5 1/2 frets long.
Thanks for the info guys.
JB
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chris ivey


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 10:29 am    
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yours is a Lashley Legrande ll a different model than a Legrande which is what an skh would be, not a Lashley Legrande. it's also not a push pull or a Lashley Legrande lll.

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John De Maille


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 2:34 pm    
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Was the SKH produced to emulate the sound of a keyless? I've never played one, but, I've heard that they sound closer to a push pull. Im surprised, after all these years,that no one has produced a steel that sounds like a PP, except maybe a ProMat.
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John Booth


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Columbus Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 2:58 pm    
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Thanks guys, Just wanted to understand the term SKH
Learned a lot.
JB
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chris ivey


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 3:05 pm    
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John De Maille wrote:
Was the SKH produced to emulate the sound of a keyless?

it was produced to bring emmons into the modern all-pull world and introduced the split-tuning feature at the same time.
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chris ivey


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california (deceased)
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 3:07 pm    
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i suppose the short keyhead was solely a biproduct of trying to fit everything onto the original p/p sized body.
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Ron Brennan

 

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Orlando, Florida, USA; Formerly, Edison, NJ
Post  Posted 4 Mar 2015 8:57 pm     SKH Topic
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John,

See the topic address below for more info in re: the Emmons Legrande, SKH model.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=265495&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=skh&start=25

Hope you find it useful and helps clarify the Emmons Legrande SKH topic. TX

Rgds,

Ron
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