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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 5:54 am |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 6:04 am
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Thanks
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 6:12 am
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They were merely copying what Fender had done years before.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 6:17 am
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| I don't see anything wrong with that. I owed a 71 D-10 PP and thought that it was what all pedal steels should have had. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 6:44 am
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Thanks
Last edited by Johnie King on 12 Dec 2021 8:01 am; edited 3 times in total |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 6:55 am
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| Jack Stoner wrote: |
| I don't see anything wrong with that. |
Nor do I. With musical instruments, their sound and ergonomics trump aesthetic and cosmetic considerations as far as I'm conceived. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 7:17 am
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An Emmons would look naked without it. 
Erv |
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Duane Becker
From:
Elk,Wa 99009 USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 7:26 am
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| It would not be an Emmons PP without that control panel. I've now played pp going on 21 years, I thought nothing of the panel. Fender no pedal steels have them too... |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 7:46 am
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Well I would like too have one of the Emmons push pulls that they first
Built with out the plate an hole in body.
You could put a hot rod shifter in the hole they made in pp cabinets!! |
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Bill Lowe
From:
Connecticut
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 7:53 am
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Mystery solved... maybe the tone comes from the hole😀😀😀
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JCH D10, 71 D10 P/p fat back, Telonics TCA 500C--12-,Fender JBL Twin, Josh Swift signature. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 7:59 am
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
| sound and ergonomics trump aesthetic and cosmetic considerations |
Nice if you can have both, though.
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 9:52 am
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Thanks
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 11:54 am
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| I like the Emmons plate including the tone bypass toggle . If the top-hat switch seems too tall, you can always pull it off and swap for a Strat switch cover. |
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Jim Pitman
From:
Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2020 12:24 pm
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Bill Lowe, interesting you mention the tone angle. I've been thinking the changer hole in a PSG also contributes to the tone of a pedal steel significantly. I have a wooden square tube percussion instrument that has different size line cuts in the top surface that isolate bigger or smaller areas of that surface that you choose to beat with a drum stick to provide different tones.
Maybe the presence of the changer hole explains why a pedal steel almost always sounds different than a lap steel in both tone and sustain. |
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John Lacey
From:
Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 27 Oct 2020 11:53 am
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| In the heat of the battle onstage, it’s nice to have a substantial switch to grab onto as opposed to that little mini switch that’s on most new guitars. |
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Brandon Mills
From:
Victoria, TX. USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2020 12:55 pm
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Yeah I remember my father’s old push pull..... That terrible looking thing also made noise in almost every frequency, and once it started it seemed like it rang out forever, and don’t even get me started on that hideous color.....it was like a sunburst of tobacco exploding from the aprons. Glad they never caught on!
FWIW this is purely in jest..... 🤓 |
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