The Steel Guitar Forum

I am blessed to have Jon within 30 minutes of my home. He has repaired my Williams 7x5 Uni several times and recently moved a bunch of stuff to give me a C6 pedal 4 type change in the 0 position. He not only did the work quickly and effectively as always but also went over the whole guitar fixing po...

Since this thread lives on I will post twice. The psg may or may not be one of the most difficult instruments to play, but as the owner of an 7&5 12 string with numerous splits it is indubitably one of the most difficult instruments to TUNE! Yeah, yeah piano. Tune it once and it's good for at le...

Gary- It's beautiful the way it is. The dancers say it all.

What part of tone is in your hands? I think dynamics can be considered part of tone and one difficult aspect that most great players have mastered is the ability to play a dyad or triad where the components are played at different volumes. Lloyd Greene is a master of this. I also believe vibrato is ...

I have used a BJS and now use a Dunlop. I can tell you that having the right size is a lot more important than the right kind

I will preface this by saying the man is a better player than I will ever be but...it sounds like practicing on the bandstand to me.

Measure twice, cut once, curse a lot, get a new piece of wood, repeat. That's my system.

I have this book and find it very rewarding. It's easy to break into practice sized pieces, has beautiful recorded examples, and is well worth the money.

As we say in nursing: "see one, do one, teach one." If you know something they don't you can teach them. If they are giving you money, they'll stop when you aren't helping them enough.

Badly,yes,yes,yes.

Beautiful tune, beautifully played. Ragtime can sound so mechanical because it swings differently than post Basie jazz, but you really made it sparkle. Just the right tempo!

I'm more of a psg operator than a musician but I will chime in. I think the psg at a basic level is easy. Hold the bar straight, play three adjacent strings, boom,triad. Push 2 pedals, 4 chord Push one pedal and a lever, 5 chord. Push one pedal 6, one lever 3. Etc. Whenever my friends come over with...

For all he has done for others down here I'm sure St. Peter will bring down the choir, set Buddy and the others aside, and let b0b have his first heavenly ride. RIP invisible sensei.

Single neck 12 string universal

Is it one inch in diameter? Can you post a picture of it unwrapped? It looks like an Arctic ice core in the picture. I'll take it if it's undamaged and the right size.

Still playing the black Williams S12 you sold me years ago. Plenty of guitar for me.

I come late to this thread, but would like to add my thanks and best wishes. The forum helped me decide to take the leap into playing. I bought both my steels here and sold one. I learned how to play them, how to fix them (a little,) and am looking forward to learning how to tune them once we figure...

Really nice, sounds West Coast jazzy to me. I think the clone band look could be a real alternative to the bar band in Star Wars also. Maybe you could be in the background for Blade runner III. I also dig the jazz on the back neck stuff.

My wife reccomends suinging the lonely goatherd song from The Sound of Music, It makes you hate all music for about two minutes which is long enough to reset your brain.
Of course you may have to learn it first which hurts alot.

Some mighty nice, mighty cheap 5 string banjos in there, including a Gibson Mastertone currently bid at $800. that's a steal for those that care for such things.

Sorry it didn't work out for you Patrick. This was my first steel and it's a fine instrument. For me it was a gateway drug; I play a uni now.

I've got a bag of the white speed picks. I've put hundreds of hours in on only two of them. PM me and I'll mail you a couple. I love 'em, but they do have short blades which turns some people off.

One advantage of looking at chords in terms of the degrees of the home scale is it makes voice leading very clear. If you want to go from V7 (5,7,2,4) to I (1,3,5,7) it makes it pretty obvious that the 4 is going to the 3 and the 2 is going to the 1. Try moving V7 to vii-7b5. It also makes the same ...

I know I shouldn't, but I can't resist....

"Only cowboys stay in tune anyway." Jimi Hendrix

Maybe that's why a lot of us play country and western.

I am a pedal steel operator, not a player. There are things I believe: -Music is a language. We play together to communicate. To use a language most effectively we must hear it, speak it, read it, and write it. -Hearing and speaking are the most basic. You play something; I play it back. You play so...