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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning... | | Date: | Saturday, November 3, 2007 21:03:57 (-0400) | | From: | George Rout <georout @......ca>
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While I recognize this is a reso forum, I also have a double neck guitar,
but with a home made changer on the outside neck. The guitar is a circa
1948 Gibson Consol Grande double 8. Home made changers were quite popular
after the first recording came out with a Pedal Steel Guitar tune, and it
was Bud Isaacs "Slowly". I have never heard of the "Stringtone" commercial
unit, but there is always someone out there with a good idea fitting the
"supply" requirement. My outside neck is tuned to E7, and I have it preset
to change to A (Major) when I depress the pedal, which raises up the 2n and
3rd strings, and when I let go of the pedal, it is spring returned to it's
original position. It's a nifty item of axles, threaded rods, a yoke for
the two strings, nuts & bolts and turnbuckles. There are two rods one each
come up through the casting just before the strings, and each has a hold
drilled for the string to through (also through a piece of nylon tubing).
The rods push up when the pedal is depressed, and are limited to a
particular travel set by two bolts which can be adjusted up against the
bottom of the guitar. This whole mechanism was on the guitar when I bought
it in 1953, and the work was perfomred by a machinest at Fairey Aviation in
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
George
----- Original Message -----
From: <reso-man@comcast.net>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning...
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>
> Wow Bob,
>
> I never heard of that one, a "Stringtone" huh? You've got a rare axe
> there Bob. I've always wondered how the first guy who rigged up a
> "device" to lower the second string of a G tuned instrument a half a tone
> to get a minor chord felt? Probably like that first step on the moon's
> surface?
>
> Richie
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: bobmcevoy@comcast.net
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>> I have a double neck lap steel guitar with tuning changers on both necks.
>> The inside neck has A - E and C#
>> The outside neck has C6- E7 and C7.
>>
>> The changing is performed via a slotted cog. It is machined so that as
>> you lift
>> the lever, the string tension is adjusted to fit that tuning. The cog
>> could be
>> machined for other tunings also.
>>
>> It works perfectly and was built in the 1950's
>>
>> Obviously the electric is more stable than a wooden Dobro but the concept
>> works.
>> There is a patent number 2,603,119. It was called a Stringtone - by Rowe
>> Industries.
>>
>>
>>
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