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Topic: What is this strange thing between nut & tuners? |
Zayit
From:
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2001 9:21 am |
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| Palm pedals, definately after-market. How did he pick, bar and push the pedals at the same time? Or rather, with what appendage did he bar the strings? |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 21 Sep 2001 11:39 am
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That's just plain WEIRD. I assume the player would pick a note, let it sustain, then change the pitch by pressing on the metal bar(s).
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 21 Sep 2001 2:23 pm
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| Early Scruggs tuners? |
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Eric Stumpf
From:
Newbury, NH 03255
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Posted 21 Sep 2001 3:13 pm
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| Since it would require moving your right hand over to the changers to actuate them and, as such, rendering your ability to pick the strings impossible, I'd guess this guitar was set on a stand or framework and the pedal changers were pulled down by some sort of wire or chain attached to a floor mounted pedal assembly. Reminds me of Jay Harlin's early efforts. [This message was edited by Eric Stumpf on 21 September 2001 at 04:15 PM.] |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 23 Sep 2001 7:29 am
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| Actually, I think those are tuning changers similar to a set I once owned back in the late forties. Before you commenced playing a song, you selected the tuning with one of the changers...usually C#m, Emaj, Amaj, or whatever you had pre-selected. Handy little gizmo but they were never very accurate...at least, mine weren't. |
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Zayit
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 26 Sep 2001 12:08 pm
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| George- In your highly esteemed opinion, would the presence of those palm pedals impede the function of the tuners; nut; etc? |
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