The Steel Guitar Forum

Love it! You guys sound great as always, and good production with the video/recording.

I've been to, well, one, and he didn't play then. But just googling videos and images, it looks like a very common one is that branded one you mentioned maybe being a ShoBud. Definitely a pedal-style console S10, maybe made custom? Or at least, customized. Canopus are pretty common with players in t...

This is a fascinating topic though. Just a few thoughts...David's point, while it might sound harsh or critical of those specific musicians...I kind of get and agree with an underlying point. I've had similar thoughts about how jazz evolved (I am by no means an expert). In the 30s jazz was in large ...

It's absolutely crazy that Cumquat Records literally disappeared completely from the internet: not even the Wayback Machine can find a trace of it. Proves that the internet really isn't forever. I wonder if you were trying the right base website domain? I haven't had trouble getting to it here...th...

Ambitious and impressive! I love Maiden Voyage from that same album. As an aside...it's a great thing for a steel player, when you find a good jazz rhythm guitarist to play with. I worked with a guy like that for a few years, who had sort of a magical balance of knowing good, proper jazz voicings, a...

I partly accidentally standardized on "medium" scale (sometimes called long scale) of about 24.5". My stringmaster, magnatone, SX, and Clinesmith all in that ballpark. A nice thing about it is that my acoustics (dobro and tricone) also match that scale. So its a nice standard for me. ...

I think, as mentioned, one of the biggest factors is just how many D8s are out there as opposed to a D6. So you may naturally just find more D8s and even if you want to stay on a six string, it might just be easier to get a D8, string it up with six, and decide as you go if you want to extend the tu...

Yeah, that's kind of why I enforced a strict "happy to not understand it" policy with Carnatic music myself because there's just so much to learn from even a single school of northern indian music! I think you get a sense of -perceived- sustain with more buzz (open jawari) but you get more...

The thing about that open D tuning in my mind, is its simplicity. Power chord on bottom, triad on top. Anything you add to that tuning is going to be both additive and subtractive. Additive in that you get more options (reentrants, sixth options, b7, 9ths, etc, whatever), subtractive in that part of...

That's an interesting guitar for sure! And while that wasn't the piece of music I was expecting to hear...I love it and you did well getting the whole weather report sound. Those saddles are interesting, I guess the forward set screws let you adjust the jawari ("buzziness" based on string ...

Thanks Erv, there's one for 7 bucks on Amazon, cheap enough to give it a shot!

Hi guys, So I have and still love a SX 8-string lap steel. I've got a better pickup in it and I keep it tuned to B11...with a low B (I think a .065 or somewhere around there). Here's a sample image of the headstock: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/17302_delme_1.jpg My mild problem is tha...

I don't know of any in particular, but if you want to make contact with the local members of the diaspora...you might contact the local Hawaiian civic club? It's possible they might know if there are actual Hawaiian bands locally. Bear in mind the civic clubs are not there primarily for music purpos...

I'd like to track down and purchase a copy of Hawaii's Own David Kelii. Does anyone have or know of a copy? Preferably on CD. Or even a link to it on youtube or another site? I've only been able o find Whispering Lullaby. In particular I'd like to find Beautiful Kauai. Thanks! I don't have it, but ...

You mention getting frustrated with the Morrell...anything in particular frustrate you with the instrument or was it just getting frustrated learning it? You've got a pretty broad range available with 6 strings (lots of new and vintage offerings for not too much money). The only thing that I'd perso...

I was going to recommend Kully Stiles just because I thought he was in LA, and he's a great player...but I had no idea if he teaches lessons. Here's some of his group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTt7thjasqc Then I ran across this thread: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=372920&am...

Having "special" eyes (highly myopic) with a higher risk of retina issues, I've given some thought to this, if things went really bad and I lost my sight. (As it happens, I finally decided to get intraocular lenses which went in yesterday...after 35 years of contacts and glasses it is surr...

Joe Burke wrote:[Na Lei 'o Hawai'i]
Hey Nic - Do you have a favourite version or 2?

For me it'd probably be Alfred Apaka (backed up by Jules). [glances left at avatar] I guess I am nothing, if not predictable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqucFMBNoc

The easiest songs to learn are sometimes the ones you love. So for me, one of the first songs I learned (after Aloha 'Oe of course) was Sand by Andy Iona. It had my brain "captured", and so I learned it on uke and steel pretty quickly, even though it required the weird B11 tuning. Not that...

Hi Paul...first thought is, that isn't likely a very old lap steel...it's been modified for sure, but SX is a more recent Chinese import brand (I've got one and like it...although I did replace the pickup). It actually looks a lot like this one...given the (maybe? maybe not) nonstandard finish and c...

Nicely done. I was actually introduced to the tune relatively recently, by Raiatea Helm's version, which is quite pretty transmogrified into a modern Hawaiian sound.

The solo around 1:40ish, that was with a bit more gain or overdrive right?

Very nice Mike! I'm so used to hearing country steel styles seep its way into ostensibly Hawaiian songs (particularly on mainland recordings during the 60s and 70s, there was a lot of "heck its just a slide guitar, any session guy will do") that its fun to hear them 100% appropriately depl...

I use the lower C13 (JAS) but am curious about one thing...if you started on A6, and are used to that, why are you using C6/C13 (at least configured that way)? You're right, the string intervals map straight onto its equivalent A6 tuning...basically you get the b7-1-3-5-6-1-3-5 on both the C or A va...

I agree that this is not going to be a collector's item, exactly, but it could hold a decent value to the right person as a "player". It looks nice, decent condition albeit non-original obviously, and the long scale S8 is a pretty nice config for a lot of people who don't want to haul a bi...

This is a collaboration on an album of Count Basie covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4RtWRKt4PU Thought you guys might like it. There's nothing technically too sophisticated about those steel lines (on the surface) but played with just the right touch, reminds me how you can kind of play the ...