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Calvin Walley
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colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2005 10:32 am |
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| i just saw a steel on e-bay with the pedals on the right side. i have never seen this set up before. i am not looking to buy it was just killing time and ran across it, but are they any advantage to this set up ...just wondering ....by the way its listed as a GFI S10 sm with 3/2 |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 11 Nov 2005 12:41 pm
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It could have been made as a left-handed steel (a few are around), but it appears to be strung in standard fashion, i.e., right handed. Of course, it could have been set up that way for someone who had a handicap of some sort, and couldn't use his left foot. I'd imagine takers will be few, but 'ya never know!  |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Nov 2005 9:56 pm
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Weird~Looking, at first-sight, but; not really as rediculous as it might seem! If you're just starting out, especially, I don't see why it should make any difference in it's playability, if you can also learn to use a volume~pedal with your left~foot. Jerry Byrd used a volume~pedal with his left~foot and if he had chosen to persue a PSG, he might have had it set up that way! Personally, I see nothing objectionable about it!
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’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15” Eminence
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 5:12 am
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Gene Fields is a very kind builder of great pedal steels, if you have a handicap, he is the man to talk to about a special guitar built just for you. He will go out of his way to help you, as he does for every steel guitar that he builds, class man, thats GFI's way of doing business.
Ernie Pollock  http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 8:28 am
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i don't see anything wrong with it all i was saying was that i had never seem this setup and thought that it might have some advantage that i didn;t know about
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 8:42 am
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It looks to me like the pedalbar is put on upside down and the pull rods just hanging from something. They don't look vertical to me but it might be an illusion. If it were built for some type physical challenge I doubt it would be raised to a standing position. My bet is the guitar is a normal standard design and just set up improperly. I would sure like to see a photo of the undercarriage.
Jerry[This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 12 November 2005 at 08:49 AM.] |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 9:17 am
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 9:30 am
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Back in the early 80s, I briefly played guitar with a fine local player named Stan West who had injured his left foot, and subsequently had the pedals set up on the right.
Ironically a few years later we worked together again with him on guitar and me on steel.
Stan now runs a guitar store. I don't know if he still plays.
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 10:50 am
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Back in the sixties I knew a very good player in the Los Angeles area named Bookie Modin. He played the pedals with his right foot and the volume pedal with his left. It looked kinda funny but he picked some major league steel and had worked with Dave Dudley and some other big names of the time. He worked for Blackie Taylor's music for a while and one day in the store I asked him why he played his pedals that way. He said that in the military he'd worked in an office and had his steel set up next to a wall to his right. When he wanted to practice he'd just turn his desk chair to the right a little and push the pedals with his right foot and just simply got used to doing it that way. If anyone's ever heard Bookie play they know it didn't hinder him at all. Sadly he died some years back from a blood disease of some sort.........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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