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Dag Wolf


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Bergen, Norway
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2007 3:54 pm    
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Who was the first to put on first string F# to G# change as we know it today?
First recording with this change used?

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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2007 4:00 pm    
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I'd say the first "famous player" to do that was Emmons, well over 30 years ago. Maybe he could tell us his first recorded use of it?

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Emmett Roch

 

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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2007 4:00 pm    
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Buddy stated here on the forum that he had installed that change on the 4th pedal of his guitar and used in on a Darrel McCall recording in 1974.

He also graciously stated that if he didn't come up with it first, he probably got it from whoever did.
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Mike Kowalik

 

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Post  Posted 20 Sep 2007 4:24 pm    
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I believe this change was first used on Darrell McCall's "Pins And Needles(In My Heart).........
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Eddie Lange

 

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Nashville, TN
Post  Posted 20 Sep 2007 10:23 pm    
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I do believe that Emmons was the first and I think it was Pins and Needles. Lloyd was doing it very early on though too but in a different way. He would raise his F# a half step like he always did and then bend it the rest of the way with his ring finger behind the bar! Made for a very cool tonal difference then the full change. For one example, it can be heard in the CLASSIC outro solo on Ricky Skaggs' Nothing Can Hurt You. As always, the genius at work.
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Tony Prior


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Charlotte NC
Post  Posted 21 Sep 2007 1:21 am    
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I thought I was the first to use this pull Sad
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Jerry Hayes


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Virginia Beach, Va.
Post  Posted 21 Sep 2007 3:04 am    
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I've always called it the "Brumley" pedal as Tom's the first one I ever heard of using it. He has it on pedal one of his steel and also on a knee lever I believe. His floor pedal raises strings 7 & 10 a whole tone and his knee lever raises strings 1 & 7 a whole tone..........JH in Va.
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