Day set-up

Kyle Everson · From: Nashville, Tennessee

I was browsing the tunings section, and it has Jimmy Day's F (sharp the E's) lever on the LKL. I play Emmons, and this location makes a lot of sense for my needs. I thought most Day players had their E-F lever on LKR for conveniece to pedal 3. That seems like quite a reach (although I think Lloyd Green does the same thing, except reversed).

So the question is, how many Day players have it set-up like the Jimmy Day model posted in the tunings section here, and how many have it on LKR?

Bob Tuttle · From: Republic, MO 65738

I have mine on RKR.

JW Day · From: Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA

I play the day set up. I raise my E's on the left knee right. I lower on the left knee left. From most of the folks that I talk too, this is pretty much the norm. J W Day

Russ Tkac · Posted 26 Jan 2007 12:48 pm

I play "Day" and raise E to F on the LKL. Works for me. I lower E on RKL

Have fun.
Russ

Darvin Willhoite · From: Roxton, Tx. USA

I play the "Day" setup and raise my E's on the LKR and lower them on the RKR. I little unusual, but this is the way I got used to it. I played for 15 years before I even had the E-F change, and the LKR was the easiest place to put it on my old Clark steel.
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Brad Sarno · From: St. Louis, MO USA

Don E. Curtis turned me on to this "Day" setup:

Day pedals, LKR raises E's, RKL lowers E's.

Brad

Bob Baringer · From: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

I didnot know of "The Day" setup as I started on A6th and lowered basic A to E. When I got my first Sho Bud it had one knee lever RKL to lower the E's I stayed with that now I raise to F RKR...just graduated into this setup which is mostly Jimmy Day...

Robbie Daniels · From: Casper, Wyoming, USA

I don't use the Day set-up, I use Emmons, but I raise all E's on knee levers. E to F on LKR, E to F# on RKR and E to Eb on RKL. I have been using that set-up for 40 years. Recently I added the Franklin pedal to my LKR.
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Jim Seay · From: Lenoir City,TN

I raise my E to F with LKR.
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Henry Matthews · From: Texarkana, Ark USA

I play Day setup simply because when I first started playing it just seemed to make more sense and it still does. I did have my E lower on my RNL and played that way for quite a few years. I believe Sara Jory uses that setup. Anyway, I moved it about 20 years ago to LNL to keep that leg free as much as possible for volume pedal smoothness and it did help. I still have the usual knee levers on my right knee but you wouldn't use them as much as an E lower. My E raises are LKR.

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Henry Matthews · From: Texarkana, Ark USA

Kyle, reviewing your post again, I believe that is a misprint. That would really be an awkard movement, for you ankles anyway.

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Max W. Thompson · From: Texas, USA

After playing a Carter Starter for eight months, I found a Blanton that was already in Day tuning and I've left it that way for the last six months. The F (sharp the E's) lever is on the LKR. The E (flat the E's) is on the RKL lever, which I like a lot. I haven't found any reason to change it yet.

But I have one question:

The D (2nd string D# to D) lever also raises the F#s to G#...what is that specifically for? I doesn't seem to get in the way, and I guess on a 7th chord, it gets rid of the 9ths, but what was the original intent?

Jerry Sherbahn · From: Georgetown, Tx

I use the Day setup. Sonny Curtis, George Jones player back in the 60's wrote it down for me before I ever bought a pedal steel. It was what he used, except I think he used an A9 or B9 tuning. I didn't know about an Emmons setup until later. My RKL lowers the E's and RKR raises the E's. The Day setup is great when you have the 4th padal as a Franklin pedal.

richard burton · From: Britain

According to my Winnie Winston book, Jimmy Day dropped the E's on LKL, and raised the E's on LKR, as that is the most ergonomic way of playing when using the pedals.

Charlie McDonald · From: out of the blue

I too adapted that way because it seems the most ergonomic and make the most musical sense to me.
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Sonny Jenkins · From: Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx

I may be wrong,,but I don't think Jimmy lowed the Es,,,I think he used his 2nd string (D#) for that,,,,

Stephen Dorocke · From: Tres Piedras, New Mexico

For myself, I have E>Eb one rkr and E>F on rkl. I find having these changes on the right side more practical, because they're independent of what my foot is doing on the pedals. Also, because my lkv flats the 3rds, I can keep that engaged while using the E changes, which facilitate some useful harmonic combinations. The pedals are Day, and the forth pedal raises the middle G# to A#. Evil Twisted

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