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Correct on the switches, Bill.

Joe: I have a sketch I can send you. Email me: rod-mason@att.net


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Rod Mason

Correct on the switches, Bill.

Joe: I have a sketch I can send you. Email me: rod-mason@att.net


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Rod Mason

Tuesen tag, Bengt

That's it for sure but seems harder to play than it should. I'll keep at it.

Rod

I think this may be the hardest doggone thing I've ever tried to play. I think Mr. Brumley may have been using three strings: melody on 5 with some A pedal here and there, 4th string with some F lever here and there, and open 3rd string. When he goes to V it sounds like he drops the 3rd string. Rick...

or I'll speed up the turntable.

rod

Thanks, Jim. I hope you haven't been playing the Ray Charles version. Yecch!

Anyway, I'm glad to know that it's indeed an open string. I've been experimenting with the 2nd but I'll see what I can do with the 3rd. I'll also try tuning it down a half.

rod

I'm hearing either an open string or just a natural harmonic or distortion (could even be something in the groove of my old vinyl) in there that's driving me nuts. I'm happy with the way I'm playing it but really curious about that mystery sound. Anyone got a tab?

Rod

Correct, Jack.

I just want it for my Matchbox. I think I'll try to build it when I get back to the U.S. I'm happy to say that our tour here is almost up and I could be packing out before I got halfway through the project. Hallelujah!!


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Rod Mason

It's "boo-wah." I first heard the term "doo-wah" (which I believe has now evolved to "doo-wop" in the mid-fifties used by Washington, D.C. area DJ, the immortal Don Owens who was also a fair country singer and left-handed Martin picker who idolized and emulated Hank Sno...

Perhaps some of you could look at this circuit I found on the net this morning and let us know if it could solve the problem, i.e., safely power our Matchboxes and similar devices:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page4.htm#ps3.gif



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Rod Mason

Wow, thanks, Keith: I awoke this morning and remembered that I had left my Matchbox switched on last night for the umpteenth time and the thought that I just gotta get an alternative to battery power for that thing. Remembered your discussion on the subject a couple months ago here on the forum. It'...

johnnyb - For a half-fast tabber like me, trying to tab this stuff, especially with out my stealth pedal, will be quite a project but I promise to try.

(to be continued............)

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Rod Mason

Ditto. Being a Mooney nut, I found that particularly true while searching around the neck for some of his stuff. I think that attitude has helped me a lot now that I'm concentrating a little more on C6.


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Rod Mason

Interesting sound, particularly the D lever part. I've never been comfortable with the second string, however. You may wish to look at Ricky's tab http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/bottle.html This is much easier for me at least. ------------------ Rod Mason <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b&qu...

It's on the "Open up your Heart" LP. Great
steel break, with little "Together Again"
nuances. A couple of other good ballads also
on that album.


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Rod Mason

We don't all get a leg up like John Ritter, Hank, Jr., Pam Tillis, and hundreds of other kids of stars. I'm really happy to be who I am and that you, Pat, are who you are with your cool posts that we wouldn't otherwise have. Remember that for every adoring fan, those folks have a hundred out there w...

Bill, do a forum search for my user name, rmason; you should hit an exchange we had on the topic last December. The post topic was "george strait." It's not guaranteed to solve your problems but it may help. Mr. Emmons: If you're listening. Was I anywhere near close on this? Thanks. ------...

Consider "Hawaiian War Chant" (Ames Bros.,
as I recall) early fifties.


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Rod Mason

Not enough Stanley!!

Why in the world they would bracket a
bluegrass special with those two sickly
sweet Steve W. songs is beyond me. Puh-leeze.

True, Ernest, but in this case the wall receptacles were left as they were when the apt. was built, our standard U.S. 110v types; typical workmanship here in Caracas. I didn't know it until after I blew my fuse but my host was using the opposite kind of plug adapters for his stuff with a blade-type ...

I operated my amps from country to country from 110v to 220v (with a voltage transformer) and back to 110v again over many years in the Foreign Service and never had a problem. Mike is right of course, about the transformer's capacity; a small 500 watt xfmr will do for most any amp. Here in Caracas...

The 50Hz current will not affect performance of a typical amp. It only affects appliances with AC motors in them; in terms of musical equipment we'd be talking about very old turntables and tape decks. Since about the '70s these mechanisms have been running on internal DC motors, unaffected by the f...

Hank's "I've Just Told Mama Goodbye." Hank's (Luke the Drifter) "Beyond the Sunset." The Last Letter Tragic Romance Country Gentlemen "Bringing Mary Home," "Two Little Boys." And about a zillion other Bluegrass songs. (Not necessarily in that order) ---------...

Thanks, Keith:

I'll see how that goes. Maybe I can use that
info as ammo to persuade my wife I should buy
one of your pedals as it will amortize itself
in the cost of batteries in a very short
time.



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Rod Mason

Thanks for the warnings, guys. That's one brainstorm that won't get tested. Really love that Matchbox and wouldn't want to take any chances with it. I did put on a on/off switch and pilot light after leaving it on idle for about four hours the first day I had it. Works fine. Switch is so much easie...