Emmons String Machine?

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 29 Jan 2002 4:24 pm

Can someone please explain this thing?
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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 29 Jan 2002 4:32 pm

I guess we could classify it as a kind of "3-channel fuzz tone". If memory serves me correctly, you placed the small one-string pickups under the 3 strings you wanted to play...and voila! You had a sound like 3 guitars playing fuzz harmony without the intermodulation distortion that you get when you play 3 strings through the same fuzztone. I think maybe Buddy designed it to simulate violins (the way some players do with a Bosstone) playing harmony together, hence the name "String Machine".

Maybe Buddy or someone else could jump in here and verify this...or maybe someone will jump in and tell me I'm full of baloney.

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Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 29 Jan 2002 4:45 pm

I have an old info sheet on this! It is used to create "string section" parts.
If you have "the Buddy Emmons Collection" Amazing Steel Guitar C/D, the cover shot shows one in place on Buddys S-12.
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Mark Tomeo · Post by **Mark Tomeo** » 30 Jan 2002 10:04 am

Too cool...I'd buy this just to have it as a paperweight.

Tiny Olson · Post by **Tiny Olson** » 31 Jan 2002 6:03 am

I have one of these that still works, still in the original hard case with the Emmons logo on top. I got it from Ron Lashley around '78 if I recall. I haven't used it in quite awhile but it's cool to mess with look at from time to time.

Tiny Olson