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Topic: Day or Emmons set up |
Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2018 6:36 pm |
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| Which set up Day or Emmons is best for You,an please tell the pros an cons of your choice. Myself I love the Day set up. |
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Paul Pearson
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 4:26 am
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| I prefer day set up I tried emmons when I first got my steel but my foot wouldn't move like I wanted it to so my teacher swapped it over to day I've been at ease ever since |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 4:37 am
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| Paul thanks I think if the Emmons style players would try the Day style for one week most would enjoy it. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 4:44 am
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Famous Day pedal style copeadent Pros
John Huey
Tommy White But Tommy lowers
on right knee makes for going from raise to lower faster
Can u name more pro Day players |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 6:46 am
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| My first guitar had the Day setup. I tried it for a while, and like Paul, my foot moving the other way was more comfortable. Combine that with the majority of players using the Emmons setup and being easier to sit in on another player's guitar made the switch a no brainier for me. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 7:18 am
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Weldon Myrick and Hal Rugg both played 'Day'.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 7:23 am
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My first steel was set up 'Day' and I knew less than nothing anyway! I quickly discovered, though, that rolling on and off the 3rd pedal with the 2nd pedal depressed was physically easier for me than rolling off the 1st.
I'm glad I stayed with 'Day' (even if Buddy was my hero!)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Jack Strayhorn
From:
Winston-Salem, NC
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 7:26 am
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| With many years experience building guitars with every imaginable setup I found it easy to adjust when not locked into a particular setup. I learned on the Emmons setup and now when working on guitars with a Day setup I find it a little easier to turn my ankle using the Emmons. I do not think there is one better than another, whatever is comfortable. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 8:04 am
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When I was looking into pedal steel for the 1st time, I got next to Little Jimmy Dickens steel man and he gave me the address and phone number for Sho~Bud.
This was the days of the Fingertip model.
He said "give Shot a call and tell him you want it set up Emmons style".
I did, and have been playing that way ever since. 
Erv |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 8:14 am
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Day guy here..  |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 8:27 am
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Started on Emmons. About a year or so, I wanted 3 more levers installed on my first ZB. ZB turned me on to Greg Lasser in San Francisco. Before he did the work, he let me try his guitar which was set up Day style. Told him to do that to my guitar and never looked back. Thought it was easier to bend my ankle.
I can still play an Emmons setup but not nearly as well. It's easierif both E string levers are on the left. That's fairlt easy. Put either of the E string levers on the right knee, and it's a lot harder.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 28 Jul 2018 8:52 am
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I have used the Emmons setup ever since I got a Pedal Steel in 1969. The steel, a Fender 2000, came with the first 3 pedals setup Emmons style. At the same time I bought the steel I also bought the (original 1 volume) Sho-Bud instruction book and that too was set up for Emmons.
I've sat in on a friend's steel that was the Day setup and it takes me about 1 song to get oriented to that setup. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 1:27 am
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The Day setup is better on a uni as you can use A and 5 together. The C pedal has no real meaning in B6.
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 3:54 am
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| I ordered mine with Day. I tend to walk a little on the outside of my foot and determined that Day would be a more natural movement for my ankle. |
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Jim Cooley
From:
The 'Ville, Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 6:04 am
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| I started with Day. The person I took lessons from for a while played Emmons and had a little trouble converting his instructions, so I decided to try switching to Emmons. I soon discovered that my anlke rolls a little better with the Emmons style pedal setup, so I stayed with it. I've since played a couple of other players' Day setups and had surprisingly little difficulty. Whatever works. |
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 8:53 am The Most Comfortable.
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| Emmons is the only comfortable way for me, with the E’s on the left. Day hurts my ankle. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 10:51 am
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I think it's Apples vs Apples. Neither is a detriment . It's how we started that is the primary factor.
I've been playing the ABC Emmons since the 70's, my motor skills are trained. There is no real purpose to switch now.
Can I play the DAY setup ? YES but not well, as I have to think about it . It makes sense , just opposite sense.
Had I begun with the DAY setup way back then I'm pretty certain I would have the same opinion now, why change.
I would rather spend my time improving the mousetrap rather than trying to re-learn how to use the mousetrap ! 
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 3:44 pm
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My experience is only with Emmons pedals. But I don't see an anatomical advantage either way.
Lots of phrases begin with B engaged, then add A. But doing the reverse is also needed. Often need to press just A, or just B (without pointy toe shoes). Some nice moving runs on strings 4 and 6 using B and C pedals, together, and B then add C.
So as for as the "ankle roll" issue, I'm stuck either way. I'm not that good, and I'm not fast, but at least I have a flexible ankle. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 29 Jul 2018 4:32 pm Re: Day or Emmons set up
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| Johnie King wrote: |
| Which set up Day or Emmons is best for You,an please tell the pros an cons of your choice. |
| Johnie King wrote: |
| Myself I love the Day set up. |
Johnie - Tell us the pros and cons of your choice.
I have used the Emmons set up since day one and have never played a guitar with Day pedals...so I have nothing to compare. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 30 Jul 2018 6:58 am
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If anyone wants to try a Day setup (or Emmons for those Day players), just back off the nylon tuner for the 4th string raise on the C pedal. That basically turns your C pedal into an A pedal.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Kevin Fix
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2018 5:59 pm
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Michael Dulin
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2018 1:22 pm emmons day
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| I think you may be missing the point...it mostly depends on how your ankle bends. Some are more flexible one way, some the other.MD |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 1 Aug 2018 5:00 am
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I wear out my shoes on the outside of the heel. That indicates my ankle's tendency to roll to the left. I don't know if that's relevant but I definitely have a harder time on an Emmons set-up.
But I agree - physicality to one side there's clearly no advantage one way or the other.
'Day' is how I started - for no particular reason, just the way my first guitar was set up - but I'm sure if there had been no option I'd have managed things the other way around.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 1 Aug 2018 5:59 am
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| emmons for me |
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