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I used to teach harmonica and one of my go to mantras was "Just because every song in the world can be played on the kazoo, doesn't mean it should." Having said that - I'd always say "Go for it! If you "hear it and it's in you...it's bound to come out!" (but always record yo...

The big chunk of metal is actually the magnet and is part of the same piece that pokes up inside the coils. Here's some pictures of my old Teisco 7 when I had it apart. I'll provide a little more detail tomorrow when I have time to describe it. Any chance this may be able to be solved by wax pottin...

Thanks Bill - was yours also microphonic? ( being a feature not a bug?)

1960's Model P from a dealer in Hiroshima. Most microphonic thing I have ever heard (not feedback) just picks up everything and takes blocking to a whole new level because every facet of the lap steel is hot. Not a good time player. Went to open it all up and found the vol/tone cavity sealed - will ...

I used a 23" acrylic fretboard ($12) from CB Gitty on my 7-string. The bridge is almost all the way back (the picture is deceiving)

Charlie Hansen wrote:

Tommy Martin Young wrote:I used these and they were a perfect match. After a year no complaints.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JL ... UTF8&psc=1

Do these fit without modifying the guitar?

YES = perfect fit.

Paul, I'm not sure if this'll work for you but it's the cheat sheet I use.

I used these and they were a perfect match. After a year no complaints.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JL ... UTF8&psc=1

Noah Miller wrote:From the 1939 Gibson catalog:

I guess we have definitive proof that the tuning debate started with the advent of steel guitar!

Jack, this info comes directly from a 7-string 1936 Gibson EH-150 that may have sat in it's case for 80+ years as the owner was drafted in 1937/38. It still had the original strings on it and 2 full sets of replacements along with unused fingerpicks, pitch pipe and 3 tonebars. Oh and all the lesson ...

Kinda hard to beat the price on one of these.



Great video btw on the pursuit of tone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

Can I post this on the American Music of NorCal Facebook page? Also on Sacramento Western Swing Society - is there a flyer/graphic of some sort?

Looking forward to it!

You could go for the Funkadelic approach!

It's easy to throw shade on the lowly Rogue but it was my gateway lap steel and my lil' 7-string is the only one I have that would qualify as a frequent flier and prescription strength! Here's a pic of us in Maui last week...trapped in our hotel room...quarantined with a breakthrough case of C19. 4 ...

Thanks for posting Tommy. Blues harp was my first instrument. I've been a fan of Little Walter since the 1960s. I have recently been working on Little Walter's "My Babe" using a wah pedal with a little overdrive as a tone control--very little pedal movement--on my Fender Dual Pro. You can...

I used to have my beginning harmonica students put down the harp and hum/scat/kazoo what they'd play over 12-bars. Within 4 bars I could tell whether or not they had a grasp of what the instrument does. Sometimes they'd sing stuff (sax lines) that a harp isn't set up to play other times it was just ...

Dang it - not 2 weeks into a new year and I broke my resolution to not talk about tunings. Ever. But this is different, I hope. After 30 years of playing harmonica I’ve always approached my lap steel learning knowing there was solid connection between a harmonica and an open tuning. The pic shows al...

I just participated in the poll and thought I'd ask a harmonica / lap steel question - so like the old saying "a contractor sees every problem as a nail" I tend to "hear" harmonica no matter what I do. I have always looked at a lap steel as tuned kinda like a harmonica - with the...

I found this on a thread from 2010 and had to bump it up. This is so cool - Kayton's at a luau playing Jimmy Reed's Big Bossman. He's riffing on his C6/A7 neck with that FAT .072 A string and I love that at a few points he's just holding it down without even using the bar! Then when it's time to go ...

Nut material matches bridge. All that's left of label is "CHORD" not familiar with the brand.

Found this "Chord" lapsteel on Craigslist the seller has noted that the output on the pickup just ain't what it used to be.

Probably sounds kinda "plinky"

$149.99

definitely best price I've seen for an 8-string

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/In-St ... p-Steel.gc

Hi Jon,

Trying to contact you - just PM'd ya.


Cheers!

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/17317_00F0F_apxgdiOSayhz_0t20CI_1200x900_1.jpg Feel like a little kid the night before christmas morning. I pick up the lil' guy in 2 hours and 45 minutes (but who's counting and is it weird showing up an hour early?) Just noticed it looks like a reent...

Noah Miller wrote:It's documented in Duchossoir's book - some 1936 batches have one or three dots at frets that were eventually standardized with two.

Thanks Noah!Great info....now I just need to find a book for old Vega's.

Cheers!