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Location: Paris/France | Hi,
Does anybody knows what's on A.Legg's Adamas Head???
Is it special strings??
I've never seen something like that before.
Thanks
J :)
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Location: south east Michigan | String tube restrainers? |
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Location: Paris/France | There's no tuners on this guitar!!
Or maybe is it tuners like on banjo (behind the head)??
J :) |
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Location: south east Michigan | And it looks like there is some type of foam material under the "restrainers". |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I believe the tuners are behind the headstock. As for the gizmos atop??? Micro tuners??
It also looks like he's got all wound strings on as well... |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I believe the tuners are behind the headstock. As for the gizmos atop??? Micro tuners?? That's what I was thinking. |
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Location: NJ | Looks like MicroTuners ala a violin . . . |
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Location: Paris/France | Finally found on THIS PAGE:
"...Legg's road guitar is a modified Ovation Adamas with a super-shallow body, maple neck, and ebony fretboard, strung with extra-light Trace Acoustic strings (.010, .013, .017, .026, *fifth string?, .046) and fitted with Keith pegs (banjo tuners) on all six strings. Output from the vibration-sensitive Ovation saddle transducer runs through the built-in Ovation Optima preamp into a battery-powered Fishman Dual Parametric DI equalizer used to change impedance, notch out feedback, and "deal with the unusual resonances of the guitar," he says. Legg also uses a battery-powered Trace Elliot seven-band TAG-1 graphic equalizer to "deal with problems of the house." To minimize another possible source of feedback, Legg fills the numerous soundholes in his Adamas with rubber “airlocks,” molded plugs designed for just this purpose...".
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Location: Paris/France | Another question...
Why using banjo tuners??
Does it change the sound???
If you want this nice photo in high resolution, just CLICK HERE.
J :) |
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Location: NJ | Legg has a penchant for changing tuning OnTheFly (WHILE he's playing).
I'd assume that makes it easier t'do if your hand did'nt have t'make that awkward "turn" to grasp a tradional guitar tuner . . . |
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Location: Australia | I have several of his CD's and you can certainly hear when he does it as the tone slides up or down.
If anyone has that DVD I shared around, you can see him do it when he plays "Silent Night". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | the tuners had stops on them so he could go from E to D, A to G etc. the other bits were the fine tuners he added and the phoam pads were to keep it all from rattling. Quite a piece of machinery when it was working well. |
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Location: Connecticut | In all my years at New Hartford he is one of a small handful of artists who have actually setup and played for us.Very interesting to watch him play and tune using his Keith tuners, impressed me enough to go out and buy some of his music.Also he was very approachable, I ran into him later on down in the engineering area and we talked for awhile about his guitar and things. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Before he "hit it big" he worked for Rose-Morris who was the UK distributor of Ovations. He did all the repairs and set ups as well as demos at trade shows and the like. Before that he played in an English Country (as in US country) band and after that was driving a truck. The connection was reestablished with Trace Elliot and the acoustic amps. He did the demo with a Lowden? or some box guitar and we sat down during the show and designed the one he's holding in this picture.
He is a great player and certainly a likeable bloke. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cwk2:
He did all the repairs and set ups as well as demos at trade shows and the like. Before that he played in an English Country band and after that was driving a truck. I thought you were talking about Templeman !!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Maybe it will be his time next? As soon as he's moved the lot of Capos....... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Don't you mean cappos ??? |
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Location: NJ | He has to develop a good "Dawbro Cappo", too . . . |
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Location: Paris/France | Thanks for all these information.
There's always something to learn on the OFC... ;)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | ain't that dawbra cappo? |
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Location: NJ | Nah.
Temp's a "Geordie" . . . it's "Dawbro" . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | is that better or worse than being a waankah? |
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Adrian Legg's Adamas ???