The Steel Guitar Forum

I have an S-10 case from my old MSA Semi-Classic available free to a good home - you pay the postage and packaging cost and it's yours. The case could use some restoration - edge binding and latches particularly. The interior is in good shape. For reference, the guitar (NOT INCLUDED!!!) is sized 34&...

I am really enjoying this guitar John

Hugh - I’ve tried to PM you a couple of times in the last week and haven’t gotten a response. Is there a better way to get in contact?

I’m looking for a new case for my MSA Semi-Classic, or a used case in good condition. I’ve found a lot of deal links to case makers on the forum, and was wondering if any of you can tell me who is still active in 2019?
Thanks

I play left handed pedal steel. Deal with it. There aren't many of us. I started as a trumpet player, where the right-hand does all the button pushing. The first time I held a guitar in my hands, the fretboard felt better on the right, and that is where it has stayed. Among guitar players, the perce...

I'm a lefty, and I play lefty. My first instrument was trumpet - your right hand presses the buttons, and your left hand just sits there most of the time holding the trumpet. I think this predisposed me to feel more comfortable playing lefty the first time I held a guitar. Then a lefty pedal steel a...

Thanks Jon - I did the search before posting but didn't see the amount of discussion this thing has generated. Interesting. I've been using hum canceller I made myself using a guitar pickup as a hum sensor, and then mixing some of that back with the original pickup sound. It worked great until I sta...

I own an old MSA semi-classic with a great single coil pickup that hums like a beehive under almost any circumstances. I have gone to a good deal of trouble to eliminate this hum, including shielding the pickup and its wires, and making my own hum canceller. So I thought I'd give the EH Hum Debugger...

John -
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) is a promising, but experimental therapy that tries to work on the source of the tinnitus problem directly. It is usually possible to find doctors in your area who do TMS, and the VA does sponsor some research in this field. It may be worth asking.

Eric - here's why... (I used to work on the Lyric Hearing device): The cost of goods of a modern digital hearing aid is about 10% of the retail price. From that, the manufacturer makes a very healthy profit. Most of the rest of the revenue goes to the audiologist / dealer. The way hearing aids are t...

OK - maybe I can attach a pic...


Email me and I'll send you the full res version...

Jeffrey -
It looks like this BB will not allow me to attach a file, so please email me and I will send it by return email…

Jeffrey Moore wrote:I'd love to see your chart, as I'm a lefty too. Thanks

As someone who needs to understand "why" in order to do "how", I made a chart when I first got my pedal steel that mapped the copedent to the scale degrees, and then built various chords from that. It doesn't sound too deep, but the exercise really helped me understand the role o...

I practice with model 921 by fellow Scot Jim Dunlop. How can you go wrong with a Scottish tone bar (unless it's made out of thistle)? The 921 is massive at 11.5oz, and once you get used to it you can switch to the 920 (7.5oz) and it feels light. Call me coarse, but I think most of the perceived diff...

Vagueness about which lever does what makes tablature challenging. On top of which I'm left handed, and so is my PSG, so everything is wrong all the time