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My Emmons Legrande sounds in tune now. Will a couple of you guys try this, if I post it?

Let me guess....


You took the strings off ??

WD40?

(ducks..)



EJL

YEP !!!!

POST POST POST

You put a 2x4 under the pedal bar?

You bought a Fulawka??

By cutting it down from a 24" scale to a 12" would most certainly cut cabinet drop in half.

Will a couple of you guys try this, if I post it?

Isn't that kinda like:

honey, will you promise not to get mad if I tell you what happened today?

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sorry----you've got my attention and I'm certainly interested in whatever you are leading up to but, for sure, no promises.

I guess you didn't buy an Excel or you would have cut your cabinet drop all together, not just in half...Jim

By cutting it down from a 24" scale to a 12" would most certainly cut cabinet drop in half.

I'm quite sure the exact opposite is true:
A shorter scale would increase cabinet drop,
a longer scale decrease.. whatever the cause.
That's been my experience.

Well? what's the big secret?

By cutting the cabinet in half?

I'm waiting with bated breath.

Obviously you have removed the pedals and knees and have retuned to A6...worked for me!

Tom

Mickey, tell us what you did! All jokes aside, you know everybodys curious!

You tuned it differently?

Traded for a HWP !!

OK Micky,these guys are just yankin your chain,but I promise to try it.Post your idea for all of us,please.PJ

I'll bet he stuck a 2x4 up under the front apron to the floor...

ok, that's 2 for the 2x4 under the pedal bar......

Come on & tell us...I can't take the suspense!!!

He welded in a piece of Railway track behind the front apron ?

I always liked the sound of ultra-lights on my acoustic guitar, and it's easier to play. So, I ordered individual Daddario strings from AMS online. Using the E9 tuning, took the regular guages and substituted 3 or 4 guages lighter. Would like someone to try and see how they think it sounds.
[tab]-----------------------------------------------------
string tuning lightgauge regularguage
1 F# 010 013
2 D# 011 015
3 G# 008 010
4 E 011 014
5 B 014 018
6 G# 017 020
7 F# 022W 026
8 E 026W 030
9 D 030W 034
10 B 034W 038
----------------------------------------------------- [/tab]
Pedals only need minor tuning adj. and also tilted the pickup so base-strings are closer to the pickup.

Looks like to me he is just getting all of us to brain-storm and give him all these ideas. A very smart cookie !!!

He welded in a piece of Railway track behind the front apron ?

IIRC, they tried something similar at the old Sho-Bud once... built a steel out of an I beam... it still had cabinet drop...

...I would expect ultra-light strings to sound absoutely awful, and feel awful to play; just like they do on a regular 6-string guitar. The gauges Mickey's suggesting would be like a set of .008's on a Tele, or maybe even thinner. Yeuch! In my experience light strings (on any instrument) have a hard time staying in tune - the lighter, the worse. So I'll pass on testing, living happily with the minimal cabinet drop my ears cannot detect anyway.