The Steel Guitar Forum

The wires are probably reversed somewhere along the line, so the signal path is connected to ground.

"Works published before 1964 in the US are all in the public domain, excepting only those for which a renewal was registered with the US copyright office. Relatively few works from this era have had their copyrights renewed. A US copyright office study in 1961 found that fewer than 15% of regis...

Scotty's makes an E13 set, which is what I use. It's a little different for the fourth and fifth strings, but it always felt right to me.

http://www.juststrings.com/sit-sc-e13th ... sc-e13th-6

Here is a link to all the Craig Prior tabs I could find, if anyone still wants them:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/563553/CraigPriorTabs.zip

Why exactly? The regular tuning pegs on a violin are friction tuners, with a 1:1 ratio which are difficult to move as precisely as you might want especially on the higher strings, thus the fine tuners. The fine tuners, by definition, have a considerably smaller range than either the tuning pegs on a...

To me, the fact that the major chord has the root only on the second string would be awkward. At a quick glance, the only full chords you easily (ie. straight bar, no slants) have access to are major, minor, and minor 7th. And that fifth interval seems odd, especially since the only strings spaced a...

I've caught them playing some Sol Ho'opi'i. Also, Gary Brandin is or was in the Blue Hawaiians.

Those are two different techniques. Playing with the volume pedal halfway up and increasing it as the volume of the sustained chord decreases vs. using the volume to swell from nothing to audible. The former is probably less noticeable, because the idea is to be less noticeable. Often, you can hear ...

I think lots of people change the tuning on the lower string depending on what suits the song. Tuning the 8th string to G takes away the root position minor chord (and minor seventh, etc) that the A gives you, and I'm sure what it gives in return.