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Brad Malone
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What brand of Steel did BE use to record his "Swinging Our Way" Series? Reason for asking is; that on this Series he used 7 knee levers and I never seen an Emmons Push pull outfitted with 7 knee levers.
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It could have been one of these guitars, Emmons, Derby, MCI/EMCI or a Sierra.

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Crawford Cluster p/p's had at least 7 KL's...
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Re: brand of Steel

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Brad Malone wrote:What brand of Steel did BE use to record his "Swinging Our Way" Series? Reason for asking is; that on this Series he used 7 knee levers and I never seen an Emmons Push pull outfitted with 7 knee levers.
It's probably fairly common. Jimmy Crawford used to install his "Crawford Cluster" on push pulls that had 10 knee levers.

Buddy probably has at least 7 on his push pulls. I know he has a center cluster of 2, maybe 3 on his C6 neck. Add that to the 3 on his E9 left leg and the 2 on his right leg, and you have at least 7.
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Let's hear it from the horses... http://picosong.com/YRx8/
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Post by John Swain »

I asked Buddy about the Swing Series CDs, most were recorded with his MCIs. The last was with the Derby!
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Brad Malone
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Swinging Our Way

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THe "Swinging Our Way" book has his setup as 7 knee pedals,,,he raises his two high C's to C# on the C6th with the same knee lever he lowers his 2nd string on the E9th to D/C#, he also raises his 4th string A to Bb with one Knee lever and lowers his 4th string A to Ab with another Knee lever. On his 4th pedal he raises strings 2 and 6 from E to F and he lowers his third string C to B with the same knee lever he lowers his 6th string G# to F# on the E9th...very nice C6th set-up for playing all the big difficult chords....Thanks for all the replies...I guess he really liked his MCI steel.
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