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Topic: Who invented the all pull changer system? |
Carson Leighton
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N.B. Canada
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 7:44 am |
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| Does anyone out there know who came up with the concept of the all-pull changer system? The Jackson family perhaps,,or was it before that?....Carson |
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Ron Whitworth
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Yuma,Ariz.USA Yeah they say it's a DRY heat !!
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 7:51 am
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Hello Carson;
See this older post from 2004 about this subject >>>
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum5/HTML/008571.html
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It's not what you play through, it's what you play through it.
They say that tone is all in the fingers...I say it is all in your head 
Some of the best pieces of life are the little pieces all added up..Ron
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Carson Leighton
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N.B. Canada
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 7:58 am
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| Thanks Ron...I didn't know it went back that many years...Carson |
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Ron Whitworth
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Yuma,Ariz.USA Yeah they say it's a DRY heat !!
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 8:01 am
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Hi Carson;
I did not know that either until I read it here on the Steel Guitar Forum..Great place to find/discuss the history of this special instrument!
You are welcome ....Ron
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"Tone is in the hands. Unless your wife will let you buy a new amp. Then it's definitely in that amp."
We need to turn the TWANG up a little
It's not what you play through, it's what you play through it.
They say that tone is all in the fingers...I say it is all in your head
Some of the best pieces of life are the little pieces all added up..Ron
the value of friendship. Old friends shine like diamonds, you can always call them and - most important - you can't buy them. |
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Eugene Cole
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near Washington Grove, MD, USA
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Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2012 4:35 am
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Good question.. I would imagine Shot Jackson, but Fender cable steels were all pull too, in 1958..... bob
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2012 7:38 am
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Bigsby had all pull feature before Fender.
Paul Bigsby had a row of cranks mounted between the ordinarily simple pull-release fingers and the endplate. Picture cranks like an Emmons push pull bellcrank with arms on both sides of a cross shaft. When you pulled these cranks at the top end, they in turn pulled the finger toward the endplate thereby loosening the tension on a string. To raise, you pulled the solid finger the normal pull-release way. To lower a string you pulled the crank behind the finger.
I do not know how a Multiharp or whatever those old things are called worked. Maybe they ate all pull?
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Bill Howard
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Indiana, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2012 9:03 pm Re: Who invented the all pull changer system?
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| Carson Leighton wrote: |
| Does anyone out there know who came up with the concept of the all-pull changer system? The Jackson family perhaps,,or was it before that?....Carson |
Top picture is Harlin brothers bottom is Gibson who DID GET SUED by Harlin brothers and was stopped making the Gibson electraharp.
I live in Indpls and remember radio shows with students playing hokey little songs like Polly Wolly doodle,Little Joe Smith with his Multi Kord" |
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