Mullen RP SD-10 4&7

[Mike Mantey]

4 Pedals 7 knees
Tom Brumley Setup
Custom Config.

Check this link for all info and pics

http://www.mullenguitars.com/specials.htm

[John McClung]

Wow!

[Andrew Waegel]

Interesting how the left knee levers are angled to presumably fit the body better, and connected to the cross shafts by those beefy u-joints. Never seen that but it seems smart. Is that a standard Mullen thing or special for this guitar?

[John McClung]

That replicates exactly how Tom Brumley's guitars were set up. A former student of mine bought his beautiful lacquer Mullen SD-11, same copedent, extra low E string. The angled levers are super comfy. Wish this one were a 12-string version! That's the only reason I didn't buy that Mullen when it was briefly for sale.

The staggered RKR levers take some getting used to, I've tried both staggered RKR's and RKL's, just couldn't get to that 3rd lever and still maintain good control of the volume pedal. If you go that route, do the RKR, the ergonomics make more sense and kind of mirror the staggered LKL levers many players now use.

[Eddy Scheepers]

What's the function of these staggered levers?

Eddy

[John McClung]

Depends on the copedent, Eddy. But in general staggered levers just give you more useful changes on your pedal steel. Most players live fine without them, others, like me, want more crayons in the box, so to speak.

On Brumley's steels:

Rear LKL, his main one, was E's to F
Front LKL was string 4 E to F#

LKV was strings 3 and 6, G# to G

LKR was strings 4 and 8, E to D#. Note he left his low string 11 E alone.

Tom's zero pedal raised string 7, F# to G#; and string 10 B to C#. Don't know if he used these in combo, anyone know about that?

Pedals are Emmons setup.

Then on the right side:

RKL is both B's lowering to A#.

(Corrections made to staggered right KL's, per Greg Jones info)

FRONT RKR was strings 1 and 7, F# to G.

REAR RKR was double stop lower on string 2, and string 9 D to C#. I suspect this was his "main" right knee lever, the other he had to scoot to get to, but hopefully someone who really knows can tell us about that.

This is about as full and playable a copedent as you can put on E9.

My setup has over the years evolved into one very close to Brumley's. It wasn't planned that way, but there you have it. I'll post my copedent here later.

[B. Greg Jones]

John,

You are right on on Tom's set up except the RKR's. You have the right changes but reversed. His front RKR raised 1 and 7 a half tone. I used to own one of his 11 string ZB's and have a Mullen SD-11 with Tom's set-up they built for me in 97'. This SD-10 is really tempting but my funds are really low!!!

Greg

[Eddy Scheepers]

Thank you for your thorough answer John!

Eddy

[John McClung]

Greg, do you know which of the staggered RKR's Tom considered as his main lever there? And thanks for the correction, too.

Here's my copedent as promised, very similar to Brumley's:

[B. Greg Jones]

John,

I know Tom liked the 2nd string 1/2 tone drop alot in his early playing but in his later years he used the 1st and 7th string 1/2 tone raises a lot too. When he played, his knee would be right at the front RKR with the back RKR a little further on his thigh. He had it set up to engage the back lever 1st and at the 1/2 tone drop his knee would hit the front lever. It actually looked like he was using both levers at the same time and did when he was raising the 1st and 7th strings. That is also how I have my SD-11 set up. By the way, my LK's are angled also on my Mullen SD-11 and is very comfy to play.

Just looking over your set up posted, you get alot of music out of that rig!!!!

Greg

[Daniel Showalter]

what is your asking price? post here or email me.

[Mike Mantey]

The guitar is sold.