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Post subject: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 10:18 am
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I edited the post after your helpful comments:

Hi All and thanks for thinking about this one. I have a Fender Tele Nashville Deluxe (Mexico),
with three pickups. The low E string stopped amplifying. I changed out the 9v battery, it worked briefly and then stopped. The other five are alive.

Looking at images of the guitar on the web, I note that there aren't two volume knobs spread a few inches apart, but just one, that has a smaller knob on top. This might be a modification.

I live in the Virgin Islands and local guitar repair is not available. My local musical friends are stumped. Any help much appreciated!

Thanks


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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 12:50 pm
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Telecaster deluxe need a 9 battery ?? Are you sure ? Not the tecaster deluxe I know.

1- Ok if it have a 9v batt . ; you change out the battery and worked briefly ....

The battery or the Low sting ?

2- Low e don't work on all / any pickups ? On wich pu it work ?
3- All other string work ?

A bad connections in guitar ? Is it a new guitar ? You are the first owner or unsed one .

Any mod on guitar ?


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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:02 pm
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I don't know what guitar the OP has either, but it is physically and electrically impossible for one string out of six to "occasionally" stop working.

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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:52 am
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My thoughts are that it could be a Deluxe Nashville Power Tele, but obviously I can't tell from the description. If there was a problem with the piezo on that saddle, or with the power bridge connections, then you could have intermittent signal losses on just one string...if you are playing with the power bridge switched in!

However, that is just guesswork, which is not always correct or helpful.


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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:52 am
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Butterscotch wrote:
My thoughts are that it could be a Deluxe Nashville Power Tele, but obviously I can't tell from the description. If there was a problem with the piezo on that saddle, or with the power bridge connections, then you could have intermittent signal losses on just one string...if you are playing with the power bridge switched in!

However, that is just guesswork, which is not always correct or helpful.


Good point. Didn't think about a piezo bridge (I don't use them). It's always helpful when people come here with problems and provide incomplete information (or none at all) and make us guess what may be going on. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 7:10 am
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bluesky636 wrote:
It's always helpful when people come here with problems and provide incomplete information (or none at all) and make us guess what may be going on. :roll:


+1000
Yes incomplete information :(


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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 9:01 am
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SunDogMichael wrote:
I edited the post after your helpful comments:

Hi All and thanks for thinking about this one. I have a Fender Tele Nashville Deluxe (Mexico),
with three pickups. The low E string stopped amplifying. I changed out the 9v battery, it worked briefly and then stopped. The other five are alive.

Looking at images of the guitar on the web, I note that there aren't two volume knobs spread a few inches apart, but just one, that has a smaller knob on top. This might be a modification.

I live in the Virgin Islands and local guitar repair is not available. My local musical friends are stumped. Any help much appreciated!

Thanks


Hi...If it is the Deluxe Nashville Power Tele as Butterscotch suggests, then the concentric pots are volume (larger) and tone for the 3 magnetic pickups and the single pot is the volume control for the 6 individual piezos. So if you have only (or mostly) the piezo volume turned up and a piezo is wonky, you would get the problem you've described, as Butterscotch said.
I'm still unclear as to whether your guitar has the concentric pots plus the single pot, or just 2 single pots?
I have the Deluxe Nashville Power tele and that's how mine works. I did have a problem with the G piezo once - low volume - and had it replaced. From reports on the Web, the piezos are very susceptible to damage from moisture.
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 9:53 am
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Premising it is a problem with a piezo, there's really only two possibilities here:

1. There is a lack of direct, consistent, downward pressure being exerted from the string onto it's saddle. Hence, the piezo will not be able to dependably sense and faithfully transmit the string's vibration.

2. There is a short in the lead wire of the affected string's piezo.

I'd explore #1 as the more likely of the two however.

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Martian wrote:
Premising it is a problem with a piezo, there's really only two possibilities here:


Very nice use of alliteration 8)
Good suggestions too!
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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 10:26 am
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AlexeiY wrote:
Martian wrote:
Premising it is a problem with a piezo, there's really only two possibilities here:


Very nice use of alliteration 8)
Good suggestions too!
Alex


I thank you!

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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 6:46 am
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pursuing the probability that the piezo was impaired, perhaps by pressure or volume impaired, I prepared a potent portion of a probable pathway: WD 40.

and put some new strings on and now it works: sweet!

We live in a high humidity environment which plays hell with all kinds of electronics

Thanks All for the Help

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WD 40 wins again! :)

Great that you got it fixed!


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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:02 am
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SunDogMichael wrote:
pursuing the probability that the piezo was impaired, perhaps by pressure or volume impaired, I prepared a potent portion of a probable pathway: WD 40.

and put some new strings on and now it works: sweet!

We live in a high humidity environment which plays hell with all kinds of electronics

Thanks All for the Help

Rock On!


Purportedly, purveying said petroleum product predisposed power to positively pulse through the piezo, thus promoting your plectrum playing pleasure.

Seriously, You're quite welcome and I'm glad you're back in business!

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Post subject: Re: Low E String doesn't amplify
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:06 am
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Martian wrote:
SunDogMichael wrote:
pursuing the probability that the piezo was impaired, perhaps by pressure or volume impaired, I prepared a potent portion of a probable pathway: WD 40.

and put some new strings on and now it works: sweet!

We live in a high humidity environment which plays hell with all kinds of electronics

Thanks All for the Help

Rock On!


Purportedly, purveying said petroleum product predisposed power to positively pulse through the piezo, thus promoting your plectrum playing pleasure.

Seriously, You're quite welcome and I'm glad you're back in business!


This is getting out of hand :lol:
Makes me think of Peter Piper and his peppers.....

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