Are you Emdaydextrous?

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 20 Jun 2008 4:42 am

Emdaydextrous: The ability to play both Emmons or Day setup fairly comfortably.

Michael Douchette · Post by **Michael Douchette** » 20 Jun 2008 4:48 am

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 20 Jun 2008 5:11 am

No, because my setup is right, all those other guys are wrong . I don't want to spend my time playing on the wrong setup.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 20 Jun 2008 5:22 am

Does it count when I switch the pedal rods around like Jeff Newman did? ( Called the Daymmons Switcharoo)

Ulf Edlund · Post by **Ulf Edlund** » 20 Jun 2008 5:29 am

I must have the same setup as you then Tony

John Fabian · Post by **John Fabian** » 20 Jun 2008 6:05 am

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 20 Jun 2008 6:24 am

I can tell you that Billy Easton is definately Emdaydextrous. I've seen him play his Day Zumsteel and an Emmons set up Carter during the same gig. He never missed a lick. He's an amazing musician.

Don Sulesky · Post by **Don Sulesky** » 20 Jun 2008 7:53 am

My 1st pedal steel over 35 years ago was a ShoBud and I got used to the RKL for the E's and the Emmons setup. I've tried to switch several times but find myself get so confused I gave up.
So the answer is NO.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 20 Jun 2008 9:14 am

I was raised Catholic.

Jonathan Cullifer · Post by **Jonathan Cullifer** » 20 Jun 2008 11:27 am

Yes. As long as I don't think about it too much, I have had reasonable success playing any setup I have to (I switched from Day to Emmons and back in one gig, and it was confusing, but it worked). If it gets too challenging, that's what C6 is for

Benton Allen · Post by **Benton Allen** » 20 Jun 2008 2:21 pm

I was educated in public schools in Mississippi. I'm not supposed to know what that word means.

Duncan Hodge · Post by **Duncan Hodge** » 20 Jun 2008 5:24 pm

Yes, I play both setups with the same level of ineptitude and lack of ability.
Duncan

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 21 Jun 2008 12:16 am

A little trick to get you thru if you are forced to play the Day set up and you are an Emmons set up player. Take your tuning wrench and back off the the 4th string E to F# on the first pedal and you will have the Emmons set up on the first two pedals. Same thing for Day players on an Emmons set up. Back off the E to F# 0n the 3rd pedal and you will have the Day set up on the 2nd and 3rd pedal. You will be limited to what you play, but it will get you thru. As for the knee levers, you are on your own. Jody.

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 21 Jun 2008 1:08 am

I would give my right arm to be able to do it.

James Martin (U.K.) · Post by **James Martin (U.K.)** » 21 Jun 2008 1:50 am

Is that an American spelling of the english word ambidextrous?

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 21 Jun 2008 4:38 am

Colm, great new word. You must have been thinking about this post for quite a while. NO, I can't set down and play the Emmons set up. I started some 40 years ago on the Day set up and have not had the opportunity to set down to a steel with the Emmons set up very often.

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 21 Jun 2008 6:12 am

James, yes a play on words with ambidextrous.

Alan, somehow I woke up yesterday morning and was thinking about this ability and the word popped in my head. Perhaps a revised addition of a capital "D" to read "EmDaydextrous" may be more appropriate and I see that Eugene Cole has added that enhauncement in a later post.

Isn't the English language wonderful. Unfortunately I am not as creative using musical language nor am I EmDaydextrous.

James Martin (U.K.) · Post by **James Martin (U.K.)** » 21 Jun 2008 6:59 am

Clever word Colm.It can go in the steelies dictionary alongside copedant.

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 21 Jun 2008 7:04 am

I have an Emmons setup, my playing sucks.
With a Day setup, my playing will still suck.

So the answer is yes

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 21 Jun 2008 7:44 am

We call that Day thing bassackwards where im from.

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 21 Jun 2008 7:51 am

John Roche wrote:I would give my right arm to be able to do it.

Now that's funny!

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 22 Jun 2008 5:26 pm

I can usually switch to Day if I don't try to get too fancy. I don't do it often enough to be comfortable with it. The easy way out is play two pedals as if it were one. Sometimes I will switch to pedals B+C and remember to stay off of the 4th string. It all depends on the mood and the steel.

Eugene Cole · Post by **Eugene Cole** » 22 Jun 2008 7:13 pm

My Sierra has a Day setup and my MSA has a Emmons setup. I do not have any troube switching between the pedal configurations. However I lament the lack of low-tuned strings on the MSA.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 22 Jun 2008 8:37 pm

No. I never even considered fiddling with anything but Emmons until I tried to play Sam Confer's beautiful lacquer sunburst Emmons push-pull, which is set up Day - and I can only say it was very awkward for me. But I suppose if one practices that way long enough, one can learn.

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 22 Jun 2008 11:46 pm

The first time I saw Joe Wright he sat in on a d-10 with the Day setup and sounded like he'd been playing it for years. Of course he plays a UNI with the Emmons setup. Or maybe it's the Wright setup.

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