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Topic: JEFF'S E-9th/B-6th Tuning |
Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 5 Mar 2008 11:54 pm |
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I thought Jeff Newman had 5 knee levers on his
E-9th/B-6th setup.
I know he has a LKV, but did he eliminate the LKR to have better access to pedals
4--7?
I'm unable to copy & paste Jeff's tuning from the Jeffran Website.
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 3:44 am
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click here
Arch.
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Gary Rue
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 4:01 am LKR
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| Jeff mentions that he tunes the LKR a half step instead of a whole in his universal course. I usually fold mine up on the 6th stuff. |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 5:22 am Humm
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I don't know about his latest setup before he died, but I do know that he had 7 pedals & just 4 knees, one of them a vertical to do the 5th B to Bb. I had been to several of his seminars & had to add a pedal to get the standard 'A' pedal of the C6th tuning when doing Herby Wallace seminars, I think the Universal should have 8&5 as a minimum, but the Mfgs seem to think us E9th/B6th guys just don't need the extra pedal, don't know how that ever got started. The MSA versions were usually 8&5 & had the whole 9 yards on there.
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Rob Segal
From:
New York NY
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 5:25 am Jeff's Levers
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Jeff had 5 knees; I played his guitar so I'm familiar with it. He had the left-knee-left and left-knee-right space very far apart, and the vertical lever was very long to span fully between them so that he could access it from either lkl or lkr. With this widely spread lkl and lkr he could reach all of his pedals. The Eb and F levers were on his rkr and rkl.
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rpetersen
From:
Iowa
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 6:53 am
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Jeff may have done both - I never saw him with anything other than just 4 knee levers - He didn't have a LKR and his tuning and courses are based on that
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Rob Segal
From:
New York NY
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 7:10 am
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| I may be remembering wrongly--his website shows only 4 levers on his tuning chart; my mistake.....http://www.jeffran.com/tuning.php |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 12:06 pm
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It's been a good while since I saw him play, maybe two or three years before he passed away, but he had only 4 knee levers. Both right levers, a LKL and a LKV which was very long and could be accessed from anywhere along the pedal board. He could play pedal 7 and still just raise his left leg up to access the lever. My BMI came with the same long lever as Jeff's guitar had but I added a LKR to it as I agree with others that it's needed........JH in Va.
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Scott Howard
From:
Georgetown, TN, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2008 2:53 am
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Some of his older material does show 5 knee levers. Sometime later on he dropped the LKR making it only 4 and stating on some of his video's that it makes it easier to reach the pedals to the right.
I also agree with others and add the LKR but just shift it a little towards the front of the guitar. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 7 Mar 2008 5:35 am
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I play a Mullen U-12. I had Del build me a shorter lever to use on LKR. It's a little over an inch shorter than the rest of the levers. I can easily move my knee under it and over to the right when I need to. The mechanics of the guitar are so smooth that I still have plenty of leverage, and there are four pulls on that lever.
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