The Steel Guitar Forum

cool. yes. I had seen some of the other variations, but until the ad in my first post I hadn't seen a photo of the lap steel model. (some of the links on teh otehr forums are broken.. maybe there were photos at one time?) I saw this Uke model in a shop in waikiki last december.. (The $15,000 price t...

Has anyone seen one of these in real life? I mean a stroh lap steel as shown in the lower right of this ad (someone just posted the vintage ad on a facebook forum)? I have seen other variations online, and I know Andy Stein from Vince Giordano's band plays a Stroh type violin. http://bb.steelguitarf...

Very cool. Hey, here's a hard to find version: From Cumquat's Radio Sol cd. Sol Hoopii playing On the Beach at Waikiki. It was for the "Memories of Hawaii" radio broadcast. As Far as I know it was never released on 78: http://angryjim.com/storage/sol/Beach_at_Waikiki_Sol%20Hoopii.mp3 (I'll...

oh yup, I have all of those already! But thanks so much!!

also, if any of you are looking for hard to find tracks that aren't available to buy online, (other than the ones listed above) I can hook you up.

Thanks Kay! Yeah I've got it. the ones above are the only ones I am missing that I know of. Jim Myers, I have a lot of the religious records too. I may have all of them but it's hard to find a good discoraphy of those so I don't know for sure.. Do you know which record labels they are? I have all th...

Very cool. Do you have a good tiki bar to play at there? I lived in st louis years ago. I don't recall one then, but I didn't drink much then either..

"Billy Hew len" according to the booklet that accompanies the cd Harry put out. (available here:) http://www.territorialairwaves.com/inde ... e=2&pid=26

(also Cy Ludington on guitar Benny Saks on piano and vibes.

sounds like a question to pose to Harry B from Terretorial airwaves. He's a real historian on that sort of thing. his contact is here: http://www.territorialairwaves.com/index.php?page=11

So, I've been trying to track down as complete a collection of sol hoopii tracks as I can. From 78s, compilations, CDs mp3s, youtube etc. Using a database of 78s as my guide, I think I know the only tracks I am missing. If anyone here collects 78s, maybe you can help! I only want digital copies, (I ...

I'm afraid that just by posting this and making more of you steel guitar forum people want one, I'm probably going to make these even more valuable .. if they come up again the auctions will go even higher and I'll never be able to own one. Ha. Oh well.

I saw this come up once before about a year ago. (I lost that auction too) That time it had the box. Unfortunately I lost the original photos now, but at the time I downloaded the images from ebay and photoshopped them into a template for a reproduction of the box. The top one is just the photos of ...

here are a couple photos and the info from the ebay listing: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1403/14984__571_1.jpg http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1403/14984__57_1.jpg http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1403/14984__574_1.jpg Measures approximately 3" long. Here is the copy from t...

Aw man. Someone outbid me by a long shot on this sol Hoopii branded steel bar. I had no idea these existed. No information online that I could find: Pretty neat. http://m.ebay.com/itm/111631342497

Thanks!!!

So hey all, I am just learning Hawaiian style lap steel. Well actually I've been trying for a couple years but off and on. It's slow going. Anyway I've always had difficulty handling the bar and felt that was part of my problem. Maybe my hands are too small. I just found a vintage steel bar that is ...

Dallas replied to my email. His other business and the economic downturn seem to have made it difficult for him to keep up cumquat records. But he now has http://cumquatrecords.com/ (as opposed to the old ".au" address) and plans on bringing back a revamped website soon. He still has a bac...

Thanks John! Yeah I live in new york, so I opted for emailing him rather than figuring out how to call Australia.

I emailed the address on Dallas Clarke's high end audio site there. I'll keep you posted if I hear more about what has become of his collection. I have a dream that I might be able to help them set up some sort of digital download site for these recordings. They really are valuable recordings availa...

here's the last thread, where I read about this originally. http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... b279b64f99

(I posted this same post under "wanted to buy", but It's probaly more relevant in this section so I deleted it and moved it here) So I have gathered from reading some old forum posts that Bruce Clarke passed away several years ago and his record label's website has been down since at least...