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David Wright
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Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 6:12 am |
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A guy in Wa had this at the steel getogather in Wa, he found it in a pawn shop, does anyone have any info on it?? what year, worth? anything...you can change the tunning 3 times with the changer ...
Tha
nks...
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:08 am
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Magnatone "tabletop"?
Do you have any more pictures?
Sure looks cool!
Jay |
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Peter
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:13 am
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| you can change the tuning 3 times with the changer ... |
What happens after you changed the tuning 3 times? 
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Jay Fagerlie
From:
Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:16 am
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A steel genie pops out?
Jay[This message was edited by Jay Fagerlie on 16 June 2004 at 08:17 AM.] |
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Chris Schlotzhauer
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Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:39 am
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| David, I had a 6 string Gretch like this (I wish I still had it), I think it was a '56 model. It had the 3-position changer. The tuning was E, A, A6. I can't remember what I payed for it, and I traded it for a cheap drum kit for my son. I also knew someone with the same guitar. Apparently, there were quite a few of these around, but you don't run across them much, so people must hang on to them. |
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Jay Fagerlie
From:
Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:44 am
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David,
Does that say "Magnatone" on the fretboard?
I wonder if it was made by a Dickerson type of company that supplied instruments to the major makers.....
I'd still like to see more pics.....
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 7:46 am
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I didn't get a long shot of it, but I do remember it being very short.. Peter, well you just don't want to go there!!!# 4 is way out there!!
Thanks Chris...
Heres what it is called
Magna Tone Harp Triplex...
I hope this Helps |
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Johnny Harris
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 4:07 pm
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| I racall many years ago seeing a three position changer similar to this one, mounted on a six string Oahu.I believe the changer brand was Stringtone. It had some rotating cams and adjustable stops to tune the pitch. I believe this one was set up for E,A, and C# minor. |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 16 Jun 2004 11:50 pm
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| I remember this from a catalog in my early music store/lap steel days! I thought it was a neat idea......pre-pedals, but by this time I had already heard Alvino & his great pedal big band chords. My older brother Bob Seymour, Bobbe's Dad, had already lit my appetite for them with his big band arrangements @ SUNY in Fredonia. Accordion man w/the Time Jumpers studied there in later years! Bob had the first stage band there, I believe. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jun 2004 4:54 pm
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| Didn't Paul Bigsby do something similar to this, PRIOR TO his making the pedal steel guitar? I seem to recall something similar to this device at about that same time period. [This message was edited by Ray Montee on 17 June 2004 at 05:56 PM.] |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2004 10:34 pm
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David, the multi-harp-triplex was made by H. Hise Manufacturing Co, in Chicago. The fingers are brass and the strings thread through a hole in the back and exit over the round part, similar to a Bigsby finger. The shaft down the center is machined like a cam. Paul Warnik had a jig, unless I'm mistaken, that came from the Bigsby "stash", that was used to machine various tuning changes on the shafts. I had to return it to him.
I have a 10-string Hise changer. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 18 Jun 2004 2:41 am
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| The one Paul Bigsby offered was in fact the H.Hise unit, not his own. I remember seeing a picture of young Bobbe Seymour with a D8 Bigsby and it had this lever on the front neck changer. |
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 18 Jun 2004 6:16 am
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| I guess the bigest question the owner has ios how much is it worth?? I wished I had taken pic of the other end, this looked like a keyless guitar, it tunes with a allen wrench...and the guitar is very short..may be 3 ft long.. |
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