The Steel Guitar Forum

|John Thanks you again for getting the tabs out to me so quickly.
Denise

Hi Thanks for sending the tabs so quickly. You are a life saver
Denise

Hi Jon. I just got your tabs for Heartaches by the number. You put so much work into this......Thank you for all your time.

Thanks for all the info on my steel. It is great to know what I really have.... And Herb - the analogy with the trucks was absolutely perfect....I play in a small local band (acoustic and dobro) they are so excited to be getting a pedal steel. I have it tuned to E9 - without the top 2 strings. So fa...

I am going to try and send a couple pictures of my steel.

I finally have my Fender up and running. Now comes the learning curve !!!!!!! I had a bit of trouble keeping one of the pedals tight - my husband is a machinist so I got him to work on it. So far so good. Other than that it is working fine - stays in tune!!!!!!! I don't know much about it (an estate...

Thanks Tim. I checked them out - awesome sound. Now I just have to learn how to play this baby. I will definitely be in touch about favorite songs. Thanks so much

I do like country swing and older country western - Hank Williams - Patsy Cline era - and up to about the early 80's.

Thanks Jim. I will give my husband the job of tearing it apart. He is a lot more mechanically inclined than I ever will be.

Thanks for all the info Jim. I will check out that site.
When I checked out the manual on line it said it was set for an A6. I also play Dobro and am told that this tuning will follow the dobro playing quite nicely.. Any thoughts on this

Again, thank you everyone for all your comments. This site is amazing. I don't feel quite so far out in left field anymore.

I read on one of the post on this site (somewhere) that you can add levers. Is it very difficult and can they be added to this particular gutar

Thanks to everyone who answered me. I am picking my steel up next week and then will start making some decisions.

I am a new member - am hopig to get some help. I have a Fender 8 string pedal steel from the 50`s. Any ideas where I can find instruction material for this. Everything seems to be written for 10 strings