The Steel Guitar Forum

Everything by Ralph Mooney on Buck Owens' first Capitol album. At that time Ralph was living in Bell Gradens, CA and I managed to get his address from Capitol. I sent him a letter and asked about his tuning and the kind of strings he was using. He answered right away. He was always my idol and I lea...

Hello, At about the 7-second point in the intro to 1978's "The Dream" by Merle Haggard the steel plays about 3 seconds of some of the most "bell-like" notes I've ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22RBeA5yeoQ Do any of you know who the steel player was on that recording ...

Thanks for the information. I just downloaded and tried BestPractice and it does have a lot of versatility for adjusting the speed and pitch, but again the buttons and slider are much too small to be used easily for the clumsy way I practice. I would, however, find it very useful for doing some prel...

Hello, Back in the early 60s when I was first getting into pedals I would sit for hours each day practicing and trying to learn what the pros were doing note-for-note. I would do much of this by recording a song or lick on a tape recorder at 7-1/2 IPS then slowing it down to 3-3/4 ( or even 1-7/8 ) ...

The best tuner I've ever used is an "E" tuning fork in conjunction with nulling out the beat notes between the various strings. While some sort of electronic tuner might be appropriate for newbies, for poor quality guitars, and the occasional broken string, I believe that using them exclus...

On my three steels with type 84 pickups, I got pretty much there by just staggering the poles (10-string steel) in increasing order from the 5th string- that gets you into the right range, and any further adjustment is gravy... Steve, Did you actually notice any difference in sound when you used th...

Hello, I recently installed a new Telonics Type 128 12-string pickup on my 1978 MSA Classic XL steel and also purchased a Telonics volume pedal to go along with it. With this combination the improvement in sound quality over the stock MSA SuperSustain pickup is like night and day. The 128 pickup and...