I should add that I didn't know there was such a thing until I played a friend of mines guitar. He uses the Day split. Without knowing it was an experience to remember... or forget...
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Ernie

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[This message was edited by Ernie Renn on 21 January 2002 at 03:10 AM.]

I should know better than to trust to memory...I'm even wrong most of the time when I try to remember what I had for lunch yesterday! www.genejones.com

[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 21 January 2002 at 05:13 AM.]

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kenny
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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

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Man, I'm even increasing my vocabulary !! What a place to learn new things and ideas.
Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with it.

Lately, we've been hearing other ideas such as changer shaft flex contributing to the drop, so cabinet drop isn't the only culprit.

BTW, a good way to test cabinet drop without involving the changer shaft is to step on C6 pedals 5&6 on a double neck and see how much the E9 strings drop.

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EMMONS

Could it be that there is something like left handed vs right handedness in the use of the pedal foot ?? Some say it is easier to rock one way while others prefer the opposite rotation. It also seems that the baseball term, switch hitter, also applies here since some have stated they can do it either way with ease while others are absolutely blown away in that attempt.

I'm certainly no physiologist or anything like that but I do sense something else at work (play ??) here !! I hope this is also; still On Topic........I also think we have players of Master Level Talent who use both of these set ups so it's not a one way street by any stretch of the imagination.

Since I've learned Emmons setup, I guess I'll stick, but those "outside" rocks are tough for newer players. You gotta raise the A pedal height because your foot just doesn't want to go that way!

Serious question: How do DAY players get the same move we Emmons players get when we press the A pedal and the F knee (raising the E's)? Since I've got the E raise on LKL it's real simple to stomp on the A pedal and slam the LKL knee - move up 3 frets and have the upper inversion (then "shiver gliss" back down - oh yes!)

Best, -Dave

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I think you'll find that, with the 'Day' set-up, the 4th and 8th 'raise' and 'lower' levers are generally assumed to be reversed - provided, of course, that those changes are on the player's left knee. It's certainly what I do.

Paul.....

I, too, am interested in the physiological reasons why this is an issue at all. I can easily lift my big toe off the ground without moving my leg but, however hard I try, I simply cannot lift my little toe without my knee moving to the right! Obviously, this isn't true for the majority of you guys!

I might have come to the 'Day' set-up because my first steel was that way, but I dread to think how I'd have coped if it hadn't been.

I see Mr Seymour, apparently, plays either way - this says a lot for his athletic prowess.....

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Roger Rettig
Emmons LGIII(S10/D10)& MCI D10

[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 22 January 2002 at 06:11 AM.]