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And by whom?

In the summer of 1980, Ron Lashley had them on the prototype of the LeGrande. I don't know who beat him to it, but I'd not be surprised if someone did.

Thanks Lane.

The Zum 12 string on E-bay doesn't have them. The guitar must be pre-1980.

They were included in a U.S. patent by Ron Lashley prior to the LeGrande designs.

Buddy Emmons

Geoff Marshall wrote:Buddy Emmons

figures...

Who is named on the patent?

You can read the story about it here from the man himself.
Enjoy .....Ron

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The "chicken & egg" question...

Which came first, the extra-rod method, or the tapped changer?

Ron Whitworth wrote:You can read the story about it here from the man himself.
Enjoy .....Ron

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whoa....!

My only comment is that ideas are a strange thing...as soon as you put them in someone else's head. ... the memory of who originated them suddenly becomes conveniently lost.... moreso if money is involved. I lived in the engineering world long enough to have given more than a few good ones away. The process is so repeatable that it is like the laws of physics.

Musical ideas are even more fluid in the free manner in which they are 'borrowed'.. usually by your best friends... it defies any gentlemenly sense of ethics and yet it just seems to happen like this.


Nonetheless. ... the split changer is a brilliant insight and the world is a better place as a result of it.

I remember the buzz about it when the LaGrande came out. It was a major selling point.

Mike Perlowin wrote: The Zum 12 string on E-bay doesn't have them. The guitar must be pre-1980.

emmons' concept...legrande advertising, and simultaneously bruce was putting it on zums and the story goes jimmy crawford was doing the same to his jch's after dissecting a zum. i thought they all argued who was first.
my '82 zum came out with bruce's new updated changer and the tapped blocks were sent soon after.