Weldon Myrick E9 Copedant

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 11 Jun 2020 7:53 am

Does anyone know Weldon's E9 Copedant?

RC

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 11 Jun 2020 9:41 am

From the Winnie Winston book, Rick

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 11 Jun 2020 10:01 am

Thank you sir! So he didn't lower the 4th string at all?

RC

Sonny Jenkins · Post by **Sonny Jenkins** » 11 Jun 2020 10:35 am

I don't think Jimmy Day did either,,,

forrest klott · Post by **forrest klott** » 11 Jun 2020 11:39 am

Fred Justice would most likely have his last copedant, as he built him a Justice a year or two before he passed away.

Fred Justice · Post by **Fred Justice** » 11 Jun 2020 11:47 am

Yes, Weldon lowered his 4th string on the E 9th a half, on his RKL

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 11 Jun 2020 11:54 am

Makes sense. So is the copedant shown above in error?

RC

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Jun 2020 12:04 pm

Rick Campbell wrote:Makes sense. So is the copedant shown above in error?

RC

It was probably an early one. He had several listed in the Manual of Stlye book from throughout his career.

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 11 Jun 2020 2:29 pm

The one shown above was shown in the Manual of Style as his current setup at the time, which he said he'd had for "quite a while". But that book came out in 1980.

Johnny Cox · Post by **Johnny Cox** » 11 Jun 2020 10:14 pm

Fred Justice wrote:Yes, Weldon lowered his 4th string on the E 9th a half, on his RKL

That was only in his last few years. All of the hit records he played on he didn't lower the 4th string.

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 12 Jun 2020 5:52 am

or Lloyd

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 20 Jun 2020 1:14 am

CLARITY, they all lowered the 4th, just not with a lever. The early GREATS emerged from an era without levers, many times not by choice but rather availability. HOW we lower the 4th is not near as important as actually lowering it.

Adding the 4th lower lever is called evolving. Its the note, the music ,that matters.

"I wanna play it exactly like Lloyd plays it "

Ok, good luck !

Growing up, I recall one early Birthday I got a Baseball Bat with Micky Mantle's name on it. I don't recall ever hitting a home run though.