For The EMMONS LOVERS ( Lets see your Guitar)

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 8 Jul 2008 9:49 am

skip...i love the lavendar steel....who's is it?

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 8 Jul 2008 10:21 am

I don't know...it's cool, isn't it?

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 8 Jul 2008 12:24 pm

It looks like a "push-pull mania" is sweeping the country.

I couldn't believe what Bobbe Seymour's sign said. I had to take a picture

Even rural areas are getting the push pull fever.

Who would expect to see this written here?

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 8 Jul 2008 3:56 pm

Now this is getting crazy!

Larry Scott · Post by **Larry Scott** » 8 Jul 2008 4:18 pm

Danny Bates wrote:Now this is getting crazy!

YOU NEED TO SET THE GLASS PIPE DOWN

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 8 Jul 2008 4:23 pm

Larry... you made me laugh so hard, I spilled my bong water all over the card table!

Larry Scott · Post by **Larry Scott** » 8 Jul 2008 4:28 pm

Danny Bates wrote:Larry... you made me laugh so hard, I spilled my bong water all over the card table!

Please put it down!!! take it from someone who knows

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 8 Jul 2008 5:01 pm

Hilarious!

Shorty Smith · Post by **Shorty Smith** » 8 Jul 2008 5:40 pm

You can play your steel at the opera, or you can play it in a bar, you can play gospel music or you can back up a nashville star, but you will never find one that sounds better, tho you look near and far, than the one sound so great, the Emmons push/pull steel guitar

Emmon, 1973, D10

Jeff Bradshaw · Post by **Jeff Bradshaw** » 9 Jul 2008 6:16 pm

Here is a couple of mine... a Black 65(?).

A Mid 70's that I am refurbishing.

All the best. ..jeff

John McGuire · Post by **John McGuire** » 9 Jul 2008 6:31 pm

Here are mine. s/n 175L black Legrande and my newest 2237D rosewood p/p. Incidently, when I got the p/p back in May, I was playing it and my 92 year old Grandma walked up to me and said " boy that new guitar of yours sure sounds different than the black one, it sounds really good"
Even 92 year old ears can hear that "SOUND"

Tim Bridges · Post by **Tim Bridges** » 10 Jul 2008 7:02 am

This one was setup and modded by Albert Johnson. Additional hours by my friend Rick Byrd to really tweak it and teach me about the PP workings and tuning. THANKS to both of you! Also, thanks to Joe Kaloc for selling me this fine axe! SN 1065D

More pics to come. Problem with uploading some pics.

Tyler Hall · Post by **Tyler Hall** » 10 Jul 2008 8:39 am

Tim, I knew Joe had a p/p but I didn't know it was this one. Ted Crabtree told me about it, but said he probably wouldn't get rid of it. Course, thats been a while.

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 10 Jul 2008 8:56 am

Here are my PP's
75'-D-10 - 8/4
71'-SD-12 - 3/4 Ext E9th
79'-S-10 - 3/4
JE:-)>

Garry Vanderlinde · Post by **Garry Vanderlinde** » 10 Jul 2008 9:19 am

I bought this '66 from a lady in Southern CA who's husbund had recently passed away. This was in the early 1980's, Wished I had got some background info on him.

Non-standard 3-holes in endplate:

Peter Freiberger · Post by **Peter Freiberger** » 10 Jul 2008 9:34 am

Skip, That lavender P/P probably lives in West Hollywood, or my neighborhood. And it's probably been played at the Rawhide and a few other places we've both worked. C'mon, fess. It's really yours, isn't it? Why not re-mica it so it can come out of the closet?

Here are my two D10's, although I think all these pictures of black P/P's are redundant. They all look alike. And they all sound great. The one with 6 levers is the Tommy White/Jim Cohen/Gary Walker '76. Unfortunately it's forgotten everything they ever played on it. The other is the '72 fatback I got recently. After an extensive re-build it could still use a correct pedal board decal.

Brandon Ordoyne · Post by **Brandon Ordoyne** » 10 Jul 2008 2:24 pm

You know...I have had my 1974 P/P for over a year now, I always wonder, where has it been in the past? How many different owners has it had..I know the last owner is a pro player, and a session musician in the Houston area, and it has been all over the place with him..but I sometimes wonder how many before him, and where has it been with them?..anyhow just a thought...I LOVE this thread!!

Brandon

Larry Gurley · Post by **Larry Gurley** » 11 Jul 2008 4:44 pm

I THOUGHT THERE WERE MORE THAN THIS OUT THERE!!!!!! MAYBE OURS IZ WORTH MORE THAN WE THOUGHT !!!!!!

George King · Post by **George King** » 11 Jul 2008 7:00 pm

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 11 Jul 2008 7:53 pm

Hi Garry Vanderlinde,
that is a very nice and interesting '66 you've got. What is the third row of tuning holes in the end plate for? I'm also curious if you think it came from Emmons with nine pedals? I know on my '66 the pedal stop bar will only accomidate eight pedals. Yours must have been a special model. Do you know it's history?

Thanks,
Cliff

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 11 Jul 2008 8:41 pm

4953 Emmons P-P were built, expermental units, s and d guitars, student included.

Bobbe

Ron Brennan · Post by **Ron Brennan** » 11 Jul 2008 9:26 pm

"4953 Emmons P-P were built, expermental units, s and d guitars, student included."

Wow!! Interesting stats.........

Anybody know how many SKH'S were built?

TX

Rgds,

Ron

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 11 Jul 2008 10:10 pm

To many, Ha!

(just kidding)

Bobbe,

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 11 Jul 2008 10:33 pm

Danny: those pictures are too much!
Thanks!

Garry Vanderlinde · Post by **Garry Vanderlinde** » 12 Jul 2008 7:43 am

Hi Cliff, The 9 floor pedals are original. It was more common on older steels.
It currently has 5 knee levers. It’s really hard to tell how many are original. I suspect not many. It had 4 on it when I got it. I put the 5th vertical on last year.

On my guitar the top row(3rd row) of adjusting rows in the endplate don’t attach to anything. The raise and lower fingers are the same as the two rows models. I only have heard of two other Emmons with 3 rows of holes which are owned by Dave Robbins and Marty Muse; they have split fingers and are adjustable I am told.

Herb Steiner said that Buddy explained to him that the three hole configuration was an ill-advised attempt at a split tuning mechanism.

I showed my guitar to Buddy and he said it might have belonged to him at one time. He sat down to play it and he knew exactly what to do with that 9th pedal. I still haven't quite figured it out...

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