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Roger Rettig


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Naples, FL
Post  Posted 1 Feb 2024 9:16 am    
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Does anyone have this pull (D-D#) and, if so, where do you have it?

Is it combined with another pull (raising 2, for example)?
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John Swain


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Winchester, Va
Post  Posted 1 Feb 2024 10:23 am    
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My friend, Lynn Frazer(sp) tuned his 9th string to Eb and lowered it to D. I did that from 82-1988 when I quit playing. Herb Steiner said the 8th string lower lever broke on Lynn's ShoBud Super Pro during a show and Lynn tuned 9th up to Eb and never missed a beat! The Eb on 9 and F on 8 gave nice scale tones on lower strings.
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Roger Rettig


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Naples, FL
Post  Posted 1 Feb 2024 11:19 am    
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I wonder if that was on 'Whorehouse...', John. I think it's 'Frazier', going from a forty-year-old memory.

He was tough to follow when I did that show in the West End of London (under the Broadway MD!) What a great player Lynn was! (Or should I say 'is'? Is Lynn still with us?)
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Bengt Erlandsen

 

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Brekstad, NORWAY
Post  Posted 1 Feb 2024 1:07 pm    
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My S12extE9 7+7 has 9th string D-D# on LKV. It is possible to also combine it with 8th string E-F# altho that would require a slightly longer movement of the LKV.

8th string E-F# by itself would also work on LKV. Supercool if split with the E's to Eb lever to give a F note on the 8th string if both those levers can be used at the same time.

B.Erlandsen
Zumsteel S12extE9 7+7
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Dale Rottacker


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Walla Walla Washington, USA
Post  Posted 2 Feb 2024 6:57 am    
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Roger I've been raising the 9th for several years now and really like it... It was on a guitar I bought from Wayne Dahl and even though I no longer have that guitar I've kept that change on every other guitar I've had.

I use it on RKL where I'm raising the 1st and 2nd string and also raising the 7th a whole. I think its a lovely change, but then I don't think you can have to many places to get a Maj7th.
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