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Ray Kedge
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 7:19 am |
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I had a single neck Emmons around 1971 I know it was P/Pull but it had 6 pedals and two levers. I have never seen one like it since, I had only just started playing at that time so what all the pedals and levers did I can't remember but it was a great guitar would anyone out there have one like it or know what the set up would have been I wish I could get it back now.
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 7:41 am emmons
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ray,
i think koos biel had a emmons like that at one time
you might want to get intouch with him fambiel@wanadoo.nl;
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 10:08 am
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| Were these 6x2's sold for a C6 set-up? Or did E9 changes migrate from the feet to the knees? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 10:20 am
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I had S-10 Sho Bud that was 6+2 but it was a C6 tuning...
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 2:01 pm Re: Info on an Emmons
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Ray, you didn't get that Emmons from Eric Snowball's Steel Mill by any chance did you? because I had the very same model in that rosewood he loaned me for a few months while I was waiting for my new ZB to arrive. I was playing in Germany as we all did in the 70's and I called him and he said my ZB had arrived, so I had to return that Emmons when I got back to England. I too was a beginner then and I think the 2 knees worked the E's and the first 3 pedals were as per normal for E9th, I didn't have a clue what the others did 
Micky Byrne United Kingdom
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Ray Kedge
From:
Middlesex, England
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 4:10 pm Info on an Emmons
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Yeah that was the one Mick,I think you are right with regard to the knees,and the first three pedals, pedal 4 lowered the G# to F# 5 and 6 no idea.Might have been 1 and 7 raise F# to G. and the 2nd string and 9th lower.
Just what everyone has on knees these days.
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Micky Byrne
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United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 4:27 pm Re: Info on an Emmons
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Well Ray, guess we both had that very guitar for a while, though I can't remember who owned it first. I did a TV show in Hilversum Holland using that, and I recall a gig up north when I tried with my little knowledge of a push/pull to do some adjustments and all these little springs jumped out. I think that was in Redcar up North....Was one of the guys in the Picture Sam? and if so which one? Good days wasn't it...we were young!! 
Micky Byrne United kingdom
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 4:29 pm
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Ray Kedge
From:
Middlesex, England
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Posted 21 Aug 2009 12:40 am Info on an Emmons
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Micky,
Thats Sam on the far left,you didn't have to wear a Stetson in those days to play country music. I think at that time were doing a lot of Flying Burrito Brothers stuff,we used to do a whole show of country rock we added a drummer a few months after the pic.
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 21 Aug 2009 1:39 am Re: Info on an Emmons
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Ray, I thought that was him actually and it's nice you're still working with him 30 plus years later. Re material in those days, apart from the stuff by Buck and Merle I used to sing numbers by the "New Riders of the Purple Sage" songs like "Glendale train" ...seems Country has changed so much since those days. Some I like, most I don't!! I'll be at Harefield hospital on the 6th September for the 6 monthly check/up on the 7th...might pop in to see you for a cuppa. Ten and a half years now...how quick has it gone since you came to the 10 year party in March?? 
Micky Byrne United Kingdom
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 21 Aug 2009 4:33 am
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I had that guitar for a while too. Eric asked me to hold onto it to try to sell it. I remember not liking the sound as much as my ZB at the time (how tastes have changed!). I now have a push pull and I love the tone. Good photo Ray.
(PS You might try posting on the British Steelies Forum. That guitar is almost certainly in the UK somewhere)
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2009 6:53 am
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Ray
which one are you in the picture |
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Ray Kedge
From:
Middlesex, England
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Posted 21 Aug 2009 10:24 am Info on an Emmons
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Nick,
Playing Bass behind the steel just a mere kid then 21, bit older now. steel matches the shirt still.
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Bill Cook
From:
Montgomery, Alabama, USA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2010 6:40 pm Europe 70's
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Ray, What a small world. I met you in Nurnburg Germany in 1976 - 1978, sometime in that timeframe. You were playing in the Officiers Club with a band named Strange Blend. Ya'll had an album and I bought one and had ya'll autograph it. Having a Country Band in an Officer's Club was a big treat for me during that tour of duty in the Army. The NCO Clubs had Country bands, but the Officers Club seldom had a Country Music Band. I remember you playing "On top of old smokey, Somebody robbed the Glendale Train, Panama Red and others". One of the best nights I had the entire 3 years I was in Nurnburg. Glad I found you on The Forum.
Bill Cook, President, The Alabama Steel Guitar Association. |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Jan 2010 10:36 pm hi
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Bill I am waiting on his answer to you, give us a date on Alabana,
ernie |
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Bobby Burns
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2010 7:02 am
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My first steel was a single neck Emmons with 6 pedals and no knees. I don't remember how it was set up. I think it was e9, but I had Herby Wallace put me some knees on it before I really learned to play anything.
I recently bought another one that has 6 pedals and 2 knees. I think one of the knees was added, and the pedals are pretty standard e9 changes. I don't have any idea if the pedals were set up this way originally, but this guitar has not been played in a long time. |
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Bill Cook
From:
Montgomery, Alabama, USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Jan 2010 8:13 am Ernie
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Ernie,
Working on Date. Looks like May now!! |
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