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Topic: Palm Lever? |
Avery Bradshaw
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Danville, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2024 9:46 pm |
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I recently came across a Mullen S10 for sale on another site. I saw that is has a palm lever. I’ve attached a picture of it below. Has anyone ever seen something like this? I’m not sure of the copedent, but it’s definitely interesting to me.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 15 Feb 2024 11:12 pm
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Yes. Mike Perlowin had wrist levers on his Classic and Millenium MSAs. There have been a few others too.
I installed this on one of my Sierra Crown 14s.
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Dan Kelly
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Boston, MA
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Posted 16 Feb 2024 3:16 am
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Zane King does an absolutely beautiful job with "Rose Colored Glasses" and shows off his "Arm Lever" at the end of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvNV9d8miOA
The arm lever concept has been around for a while... but just has not caught on yet. It is not that it won't catch on someday... but INMO, the PSG is a challenging enough instrument as it is! 
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 16 Feb 2024 9:01 am
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| The Mullen website has a pic of an S-10 with a palm lever. It's either the same guitar Avery posted or one exactly identical. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 16 Feb 2024 10:27 am
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I believe that's actually a wrist/arm lever that folds out for playing and lays flat at idle.
It can be used in a lot of ways...pulling strings or engaging an effect etc. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 16 Feb 2024 10:48 am
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I've seen levers that are pressed down and also levers that are pushed horizontally.
Here is a very old video of Tony Arrowood using a wrist lever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyJigwX9Z4M
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2024 9:32 pm
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| I'm with Jerry Overstreet. Being between the neck and the pad. May be a palm lever, Or May be a wrist lever folded down to put in case, Or just out of way till a song calls for that certain raise or lower. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Feb 2024 10:55 am
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Hmmm, I wonder why Paul, Buddy, or Lloyd never had one?
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 17 Feb 2024 11:36 am
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Hmmm, I wonder why Paul, Buddy, or Lloyd never had one?
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Probably because Jimmy Day didn't have one... ya think?
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 17 Feb 2024 12:14 pm
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Junior Brown has a volume pedal on his pedal guit-steel that he operates with his elbow https://youtu.be/m9Pjpi8Jv4s
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 17 Feb 2024 12:17 pm
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
Hmmm, I wonder why Paul, Buddy, or Lloyd never had one?
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How do you know they didn't? I bet every function imaginable has been done way before these examples. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 17 Feb 2024 12:20 pm
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
Hmmm, I wonder why Paul, Buddy, or Lloyd never had one?
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How do you know they didn't? I bet every function imaginable has been done way before these examples. |
That would have been Jimmy Crawford, prob'ly.
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2024 6:39 am
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 i made one for g# to a. i had an elbow lever for b to c#. this was on an 8 string lap steel. th picture shows the rough prototype of the elbo lever to see if it worked. the palm lever was the same only horizontal. there was a half stop so i could do 3 5 getting 1 to 4 by sliding up one fret. |
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2024 7:50 am
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Zane has a lever but it’s not a pesky palm pedal.
No palm pedals here either.
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Avery Bradshaw
From:
Danville, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2024 8:47 am
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Thanks everyone for all the examples. I am with Dan Kelly, its challenging enough as it is without adding arm movements into the mix. Zane King does a great job with Rose Colored Glasses on his Jackson. Hes probably one of the most soulful players I have heard.
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MSA Legend D10, Twin Reverb/Little Walter PF89, Hilton Volume Pedal, Walker seat. |
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Alan Davidson
From:
Berkeley, CA
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Posted 27 Feb 2024 6:33 pm
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Fuzzy PSG company makes some pretty interesting levers that you can see here:
https://fuzzypsg.com/int/gallery.html
Some of them seem to be hip levers, or something like that, for playing standing up. |
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