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GaryL
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Medina, OH USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2022 2:14 pm |
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Looking at the MCI steel guitar's version of a bell crank, how are the slots numbered? Is the #1 slot postion the farthest one away from the guitar body?
Also, has anyone attempted to re-fit these guitars with a GFI bell crank system?
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Wayne Brown
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Bassano, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 3 Sep 2022 2:33 pm mci steel guitar
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send me your email through a PM and i'll email you the mci owners manual
thanks
wayne
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GaryL
From:
Medina, OH USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2022 9:41 am MCI Questions
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Wayne, thank you for your most generous offer. I was able to download the the MCI manual and give it to the owner of the guitar that we are working on. The manual has a picture of a tone bar (bell crank); but strangely without numbering the slots. Of course, in a 5-slot setup, #3 is in the middle. Looking at the B to C# raises on the E9th neck, I'm assuming that #1 slot is the one farthest away from the body. But, I also know about the word "Assume!"
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 4 Sep 2022 10:11 am
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Compliments of the old Carter site that they left for reference www.steelguitar.com for much info on many steels.
Components are numbered with the guitar upside down.
This example is for Carter, which is the same as MCI and for all brands of guitars far as I know.
Using this model, bell crank #1 would be nearest the body of the guitar. [Carter nomenclature is Pull Bar]
Hope this helps.
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GaryL
From:
Medina, OH USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2022 1:23 pm Mci
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Thanks Jerry. I misspoke: They are pull bars. On the B-C# change, (changer 1, pull bar 1, the aluminum pull bar is bent towards the changer will not raise the string to pitch. I'll see if one of my bell cranks fits.
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 4 Sep 2022 1:31 pm
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No, that's just Carter's convention, I think.
Carter, maybe Bud Carter are the only ones that call them pull bars. Just about everybody else, myself included, calls them bell cranks that I've seen.
I also think it's odd the way mfgs. number the bell crank positions from body up but number the changer slots opposite. Gets me confused sometimes. |
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Paddy Long
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 4 Sep 2022 6:37 pm
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Gary L ... GFI uses a smaller diameter crossrod, so consequently their bellcranks will not fit on a MCI.
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GaryL
From:
Medina, OH USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2022 2:49 pm Mci
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Thanks Paddy! The SGF rules!
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