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Mike Perlowin


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Post  Posted 27 May 2015 9:00 am    
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And by whom?
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 27 May 2015 9:06 am    
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In the summer of 1980, Ron Lashley had them on the prototype of the LeGrande. I don't know who beat him to it, but I'd not be surprised if someone did.
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Mike Perlowin


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Post  Posted 27 May 2015 9:34 am    
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Thanks Lane.

The Zum 12 string on E-bay doesn't have them. The guitar must be pre-1980.
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Jack Strayhorn

 

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Winston-Salem, NC
Post  Posted 27 May 2015 9:59 am    
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They were included in a U.S. patent by Ron Lashley prior to the LeGrande designs.
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Geoff Marshall

 

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Post  Posted 27 May 2015 10:11 am    
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Buddy Emmons
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Damir Besic


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Post  Posted 28 May 2015 6:11 pm    
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Geoff Marshall wrote:
Buddy Emmons


figures... Smile
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Tom Gorr

 

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Three Hills, Alberta
Post  Posted 28 May 2015 8:15 pm    
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Who is named on the patent?
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Ron Whitworth


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Post  Posted 28 May 2015 8:28 pm    
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You can read the story about it here from the man himself.
Enjoy .....Ron

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1458620&sid=8025b80ac47ce28f848efbc870a20e99
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Dan Robinson


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Post  Posted 28 May 2015 9:12 pm    
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The "chicken & egg" question...

Which came first, the extra-rod method, or the tapped changer?
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Tom Gorr

 

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Post  Posted 28 May 2015 10:11 pm    
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Ron Whitworth wrote:
You can read the story about it here from the man himself.
Enjoy .....Ron

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1458620&sid=8025b80ac47ce28f848efbc870a20e99


whoa....!

My only comment is that ideas are a strange thing...as soon as you put them in someone else's head. ... the memory of who originated them suddenly becomes conveniently lost.... moreso if money is involved. I lived in the engineering world long enough to have given more than a few good ones away. The process is so repeatable that it is like the laws of physics.

Musical ideas are even more fluid in the free manner in which they are 'borrowed'.. usually by your best friends... it defies any gentlemenly sense of ethics and yet it just seems to happen like this.


Nonetheless. ... the split changer is a brilliant insight and the world is a better place as a result of it.


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b0b


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Cloverdale, CA, USA
Post  Posted 28 May 2015 10:24 pm    
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I remember the buzz about it when the LaGrande came out. It was a major selling point.
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chris ivey


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Post  Posted 30 May 2015 12:29 pm    
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Mike Perlowin wrote:

The Zum 12 string on E-bay doesn't have them. The guitar must be pre-1980.

emmons' concept...legrande advertising, and simultaneously bruce was putting it on zums and the story goes jimmy crawford was doing the same to his jch's after dissecting a zum. i thought they all argued who was first.
my '82 zum came out with bruce's new updated changer and the tapped blocks were sent soon after.
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