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Topic: console with levers? |
Matthew Warman
From:
here and now
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Posted 5 Jul 2013 10:46 am |
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I don't know if this has been asked before or if it has ever been tried, but I was thinking about an 8 or 10 string console with added knee levers. No pedals, but just a few knee levers to extend the tonal/chordal range. Couldn't a k-lever or two with all the rods and other hardware required be fit on the underside of a console as in a pedal steel?
For example could you have one k-lever set to do the job of the A and B pedals, so you can go from a I chord to the IV chord? You'd still have a non-pedal steel, still very portable and with more ways of playing.
I play some pedal steel and to my mind if you took away the pedals you'd have something like a console with k-levers, but this wouldn't be the same as playing an S-10 pedal steel without the ABC pedals since the A B pedals help with going from a 1 to 4 chord and give a particular sound. Could a k-lever be set to do the same? etc?
Now am I crazy or is this something that could be built |
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 5 Jul 2013 11:44 am
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| In the early days when pedal steel was evolving a lot of players did this type of modification to console steels. A while back, Bobbe Seymour had a Fender for sale with a mod made by Shot Jackson. Most of the early ones that I saw had floor pedals. I heard an interview with one of the old masters who admitted he once added a pedal to his console that was made from the gas pedal of a Model T Ford. |
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Billy Mostyn
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 5 Jul 2013 12:13 pm
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If you need to play fast tunes, just stomp on the gas pedal !  |
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Posted 5 Jul 2013 1:43 pm GeorgeBoards can do it !!
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Hello from George Mr.Boards I build 8 String GeorgeBoard Consoles.
My local friends do the Sho-Bud Restorations (James Morehead - Ricky Davis), and make custom knee levers pull rods , changers and so on.
I m certain we can create some thing for you.
As an Example :
At the March 2013 Texas Steel Guitar Association Jamboree, in the Rick Alexander Non Pedal Sessions, Johnny Cox played Tom Morell's Non Pedal Steel which has I believe 4 Knee Levers for just such a purpose as your inquiry.
This sort of custom work will cost Money, and is for those who "Can Afford" - if you have a low budget, you may as well cast aside this adventure - buy a pedal guitar and leave the pedals and rods at home.
Hope this Helps you.
Best Regards |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 6 Jul 2013 10:03 am
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. . . . . Tom Morell's Non Pedal Steel which has I believe 4
Knee Levers for just such a purpose as your inquiry. |
Not so.
Tom Morrells steel did not have any knee levers. Rather, it had four, or so,
Knobs on the rear of the body that could be slid laterally and moved into
a detent by hand until they were manually released.
Each of the Knobs operated linkage
that would change string pitch(es).
~Russ
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