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Carl West
From:
La Habra, CA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 May 2003 8:10 am |
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Are there any of you that know of any steel player that has a right leg amputee ? Lloyd in WI. has a right leg prosthesis and was woundering how to rig a volume control to operate with his right knee.
Thanks Guys/Gals
Carl West
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 11 May 2003 8:17 am
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| Seems to me that it wouldn't be too much of a problem to rig one up on the near leg of the guitar and put a light spring under the front of the volume pedal? |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 11 May 2003 8:18 am
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| Forum member Vic Chaney invented a mouth-operated volume control for an amputee. He demonstrated it at a steel jam here in California. |
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Carl West
From:
La Habra, CA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 May 2003 8:23 am
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Thanks guys, knew he could count on you. Keep um coming. Thanks again.
Hey b0b . . . missed ya in Brea
Carl West |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 11 May 2003 9:50 am
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| I seen a guy with only his left hand play pedal steel once. It was here in Nashville at The Music City Lounge on Broadway. He held the bar and picked with the same hand! I heard once there was a guy that Buddy Emmons had helped put a guitar together that only had one hand and one leg. This could've been the same guy, been a long time ago. I never heard the story again so it may not be true. |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 May 2003 10:40 pm
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| It's true, Frank. Two legs, but only the left arm and hand. And another amazing fact about him, although I can't recall his name from 21 yrs. ago this month, his daytime vocation was as a TV repairman! Check your E-Mail. "Big John" http://community.webtv.net/KeoniNui/BigJohnBechtels |
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JB Arnold
From:
Longmont,Co,USA (deceased)
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Posted 12 May 2003 5:49 am
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Eddie Fulawka has done several mods for folks with disabilities. Over the years he's had them at St Louis a time or 2. He sees it as an engineering challenge.
JB
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Fessenden D-10 8&8
Mullen Royal Precision D-10 8 & 5
"All in all, looking back, I'd have to say the best advice anyone ever gave me was 'Hands Up, Don't Move!"
www.johnbarnold.com/pedalsteel
www.buddycage.net
http://www.nrpsmusic.com/index.html
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Carl West
From:
La Habra, CA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 12 May 2003 5:58 am
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Thanks guys, I know Lloyd really thanks you for all the help. He'll be ale to post shortly. THANKS AGAIN.
Carl West |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 12 May 2003 10:51 am
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I've spent time daydreaming/engineering solutions for this in the past. I've never considered the use of the leg because of the uniqueness of every person's abilities/disabilities so I've thought about alternatives. It seems to me that it wouldn't be especially difficult, with sufficient ingenuity and ability, to put the volume control at the chin (picture a harmonica-holder type of rig, activating the pot by nodding the head up & down) or at the right elbow (yes, it would compromise 'proper' right hand form but proper takes second place to getting the job done.)
And if this sounds stupid, well, I assure you I am perfectly serious. And maybe stupid, but serious nonetheless. |
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