The Steel Guitar Forum

Aloha Jack, welcome aboard. So good to see your name here. I hope to meet you someday when you come to Hawaii again. If you need anything in Hawaii, don't hesitate to call or write me. Isaac Akuna

Aloha Everyone, your post is correct Ray, Jerry turns 81 on Friday, He called me last Friday and sounds great. He'll get performing at a concert on April 29 in Honolulu. Isaac

Hey Big Bill and the Ross-Man, You guys have been going to the gym too much. No wonder that bar feels too light! May have to go with the 20 lb. dumbbell pretty soon. I'm going to have to raid the tackle box looking for lead weights. Gerald, see you soon in Hawaii. Hey Bill, have fun in Italy, aloha,...

Aloha Bob, I've got the exact same model, You might want to give John Tipka a ring, he's pretty knowledgeable about Stringmasters.
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Hope that helps. Isaac.

Aloha George, Kind of interesting this topic came up, I have to play tomorrow night at the Halekulani (Waikiki)upstairs in the ballroom. No sound system. I have an old Morrell (Asian)single cone that I will be using instead of my Tricone(1930). The Tricone developed a deadness in the first string. H...

Aloha Scott, check your mail. We are now putting together a list of playdates/events for the convention. Anyone who wants to( and a few who don't) can take part in the various public performances we will be scheduling throughout the city April 30 - May 2nd. If you bring your axe you'll be considered...

Sounds like a great guitar Bill. Nothing stirs the heart like a soulful resonator . Although ,speaking for myself, it's going to be a while as I seem to have used up all the Christmas and birthday credits for the next 12 years or so ! Aloha , Ike

Check out "Donovan's Reef" with John Wayne and Lee Marvin. I think Uncle Barney Isaacs is in that one. Doc

Aloha Carl, really looking forward to hosting you guys when you come to Hawaii. We're going have a great time. Lots of planning going on right now. some of the venues will be outdoors, so will pray to the gods who control the weather. Let me know if you need any help on this end. Doc.

Aloha Carl, Great to see you in Joliet. Thanks for all the nice postings. Here are the tunings Duke, Alan, and I used:

E C6
C
A
G
E
C
Bb
C


E E13
C#
B
G#
E
D
B
E

E B11
C#
A
F#
D#
C#
F# (B)
B (F#)

E FMAJ7
C
A
F
C
A

Hope this helps. Isaac.

Wow, what can you say after all of that, except it was a great personal experience for me. Many thanks to all who made the meeting possible. Top awards go to Doug Smith, Barbara Kuhn, and Floyd Alexander . They trucked in all of the sound equipment from Ohio, set it all up and ran the board the whol...

Great timing on this post, Marc. I played last night over at Waikiki and was packing up and noticed one of those little rubber feet missing,I was bummed out until you guys let me know about the hardware store availability. Mahalo nui. Doc.

Mahalo Andy for posting this interview. Whew!The man's ideals have certain stood the test of time. I met with him yesterday at his home. He is doing well and in good health and spirits. He had his double neck Sho-Bud set up and showed me some stuff on a Diatonic tuning. He sounds as great as ever.

Aloha Gerald, I guess when it comes to sound it's been hard for me to describe it in words...since we last talked I had a chance to try one of the newer Tricones. When I first purchased my 1930 Tricone I had a chance to compare it head to head with a bunch of single cones from the same era in a coll...

That long-scale Stringmaster appeared to be in excellent shape. I tried to bid on it myself. The final bid topped $1400.00. Whew!
I guess I just continue my search.