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Topic: In Little Rock. in an emergency. need technical help please! |
Alex Piazza
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Arkansas, USA
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Posted 28 May 2010 7:06 am |
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I have a hudge festival gig tonight and three more this weekend.... I restrung my Showbud. I was tuning my my third string g# pedal up and up and the plastic tuner got stuck. And the plastic is worn down so my tuning key wont grab hold of it. Do i need to get pliers and loosen the tuner??when i hit the pedal it barley raises the g# at all??? I dont know what to do. Any help would be great. Im here in little rock and dont have any pedal steel players i know in town. Thanks
Last edited by Alex Piazza on 28 May 2010 7:33 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Larry Bell
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Posted 28 May 2010 7:13 am
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First thing to try is to use needle nose pliers to remove the nylon tuning nut. What may have happened is the end against the changer finger has deformed and gone partially into the hole. Try replacing it with a spare. If you don't have a spare, you may be able to use one (maybe from C6) that you don't need as much as the B pedal. Sounds like the one that's there is unusable but it is possible it may work if you turn it around. Replacing it with a new one is the best first step and should solve the problem.
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My CD's: 'I've Got Friends in COLD Places' - 'Pedal Steel Guitar'
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Alex Piazza
From:
Arkansas, USA
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Posted 28 May 2010 7:24 am
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| larry. Thanks. But, i dont have a c6 to replace it with. Also, my pliers wont get it. Ive got some on the way and ill give it a try |
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Alex Piazza
From:
Arkansas, USA
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Posted 28 May 2010 11:09 am
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| larry, I took it off and turned it around. That fixed it for the time being. Hopefully it will make through the weekend. Thanks!!1` |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 28 May 2010 11:17 am
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You may still want to put the questionable nylon on a change you use less so that you have the good one on the most often used change. With the bad one on the B pedal you're really beating on it.
I'd look at swapping it with something like 1st or 7th F# to G (or G#) or 6th G# to F#. If you lost one of those during the course of a show it wouldn't be as hard to deal with. JUST A THOUGHT. Much easier to do it now than ONSTAGE.
Also: KEEP A COUPLE OF SPARES IN YOUR PAK-A-SEAT. 
Good luck, Alex.
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
My CD's: 'I've Got Friends in COLD Places' - 'Pedal Steel Guitar'
2021 Rittenberry S/D-12 8x7, 1976 Emmons S/D-12 7x6, 1969 Emmons S/D-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Quilter ToneBlock 202 TT-12 |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 28 May 2010 12:20 pm
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George L sells them, might be time to replace them all and keep some spare, i'm getting ready to do mine, they wear out eventually.
Rock on tonight brother, i'm pickin in 'Harvard Nebraska' Yee haa!!
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 May 2010 1:21 pm
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| I believe that James Morehead can supply these. Along with just about everything else! |
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