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Topic: rightmost pedal volume pedal |
Sherman Willden
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 7:41 am |
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Has anyone considered making the rightmost pedal a volume pedal? I guess the volume mechanics would go up into the guitar apron somewhere. It would be nice to get rid of the volume pedal and have a pedal similar to the others. It would be slim. So a 9x6 pedal and lever arrangement would become a 10x6. I guess you could even put the volume pedal on the leftmost side.
Just a thought;
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Sherman L. Willden
It is easy to play the steel guitar. Playing so that the audience finds it pleasing is the difficult act. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 8:11 am
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I saw a pedal steel in a pawn shop years ago, with such a pedal. It was over on the right side of the pedal rack. The pedal rod was spring-loaded, to hold it up. The rod was hooked to a volume pot with some sort of linkage. Because of the spring, if you took your foot off the pedal, the volume was cut to zero.
Lee, from South Texas |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 8:25 am
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| My old MSA Red Baron had the electronics mounted underneath the cabinet and operated with a treadle connected to a pedal rod like you describe. It was far right and bigger than the guitar pedals though. I took it all off and used a reg. vol. pedal. I've still got most of the parts, rod, gears and brackets....don't know what happened to the actual pedal. |
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Carl Kilmer
From:
East Central, Illinois
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 8:39 am
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Hi Sherman,
You might contact Bill Dobkins (a forum member).
He had his Derby set up that way, and now his new
Rittenberry is set up like that, and it works great.
He uses a volume pot installed on the underside.
You can't install a volume pedal there, no room.
Carl
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 10:39 am
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| Having a pedal that springs back to zero every time that you take your foot off it would be no good to me. |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 2:16 pm
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| But Richard: Just think how many times you could stop playing the same song. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 26 Jun 2010 5:47 pm
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| But Richard: Just think how many times you could stop playing the same song. |
Hard to argue with that logic. 
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Sherman Willden
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 6:12 am
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Thank you all. As with most ideas someone has considered it first. Its just that I hadn't heard of it yet.
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Sherman L. Willden
It is easy to play the steel guitar. Playing so that the audience finds it pleasing is the difficult act. |
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Paul Crawford
From:
Orlando, Fl
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 7:51 am
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If you had to hold down your right foot, how would you hit those 5/7, 6/8, etc. on C6th?  |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 10:59 am
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| It would not necessarily have to shut all the way off,,,anymore than a standard pedal. My Hilton and my Goodrich both have stop adjustments,,,and I can certainly think of several ways to add stops to the set up suggested,,,seems like a fairly simple thing to do. |
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Jeremy Threlfall
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now in Western Australia
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 5:06 pm
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Didn't Bill Dobkins have this sort of arrangement on his Rittenberry? ... Bill?
(I'm sure I've seen a picture) |
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Carl Kilmer
From:
East Central, Illinois
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 5:47 pm
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Yes Bill has one on his Rittenberry as I stated above.
I was just on the phone with Bill and he's still using it.
He said he might make some changes on it in the future.
Carl
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Jeremy Threlfall
From:
now in Western Australia
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 6:42 pm
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thanks, Carl
(I must have "skim-read" your earlier post) |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 28 Jun 2010 10:14 am
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I must admit that I was quite taken aback by the comments from Paul Norman and Richard Sinkler, I didn't realise my playing was so repetitious.
More practice needed  |
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