The Steel Guitar Forum

I use a lot of pedals with my steel for recording and performing live. I have quite a few from Chase Bliss- Condor, Mood mk2, Warped Vinyl, Blooper, & have the Reverse Mode C arriving in a few days. They're very cool pedals that allow you to get really otherworldly sounds, but using them with st...

I used to play short scale, but really fell in love with long scale guitars. My guitars are around 24.5". I think they sound a lot more in tune especially when performing live. I do have a short scale Rickenbacker DW-16 that I can't seem to let go of. It sounds so good, I make an exception. I d...

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Anyone know who this group is?

Looking for two chrome bridge covers for a long scale Fender 1000

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That's the 'G11' tuning but with an added G on top and on bottom. It's used in a lot of old Hawaiian music.

Lovey Lui played this tuning
https://youtu.be/f8_uzOTaWT4

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still looking !

Good question, I’ve never seen one with the diamonds off… I thought it was interesting how the (presumably refinished) one in this vid has no diamonds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXmPUv-UxS8&pp=ygUaZmVuZGVyIGN1c3RvbSB0cmlwbGUgc3RlZWw%3D If you look closely in that video, you can see where th...

A friend just gave me this old Goodrich volume pedal. Not sure the model, but looks to have a preamp or some active circuitry built in. It still works fine even without a battery. Unfortunately the preamp inside looks to be disconnected, but I'd like to wire it up properly. Does anyone have this mod...

Looking to buy a single channel Sho Bud S-15 amp.
I have a 15" speaker I'm set with, so would be fine buying one without a speaker in it.

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Always loved that song. Here's a quick take on my 10 string Clinesmith neck with the Noren 13 tuning

https://soundcloud.com/goodnightcody/tenderly

I really like the talkbox sound !

Here are a couple quick videos I made messing around with a steel connected to a vocoder.

https://youtu.be/DTYYOnXKH8I
https://youtu.be/IBsb3m0Nfew

Here is Ernest Tavares playing with T Texas Tyler

https://youtu.be/cgWCAPQrexk

That's Bobby Koefer.
He didn't wear fingerpicks from what I can tell. I think helps the kind of chiming he's doing. Just touching the string with his index and picking with his thumb.

Bill Groner wrote:
I'm kinda am partial to the ones I make.

Are they threaded to adjust the weight?

A couple days ago, I acquired Ernest Tavares's home built pedal steel guitar from the 40's. Still learning about the instrument & will upload a video in the near future on how it works. For now, I thought I'd share some pictures of the guitar. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/18275_IM...

Apply the concept above to a circular tube (vs. a square 4x4) - with a foot pedal to rotate the tub as you play to bring different strings up into playing position. Sounds kinda like a valiha, the national instrument of Madagascar. https://youtu.be/XxsHAXsE7gc?t=38 Doesn't seem practical with a ste...

I'll add that with some finishes, bubble wrap in direct contact with the guitar can eat thru the finish and cause little marks. Might not be much of an issue, but if it's being sent overseas, I would wrap the guitar in a T-shirt or some cotton cloth before putting bubble wrap around it. Hasn't happe...

Ok, I can agree that it was probably that C#m tuning as it avoids a slant if playing in A6. What made me sure was at 1:42 in the track, he plucks a wrong string while doing that octave run & hits a note (D) that would only make sense in C#m tuning. All that nonsense aside, here's a quick take of...

I'm hearing an F6th sub in place of the Bb major triad. Which is the same F as melody note. I am not hearing that.. The notes are nearly the same, but I think it's sounding like he's playing at the first fret and picking from the middle of the guitar- which is a key technique to get his timbre. Pla...

A6 works.

The first chord (Bb) is the top 3 strings at the first fret. Song is in the key of Bb

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Top 2 are for a Frypan I believe

That video is the first time I've seen a player have a standard guitar in the lap and fret it with the thumb (1:33). Anybody know if that instrument is tuned in an open tuning to get chords? That's Thumbs Carllile. Incredible technique & there are some great videos of him on youtube. I believe ...

Here's a video of Curly Chalker doing a great stuttering effect on his Fender quad (around 1:16). https://youtu.be/CMMzwQi07vs He's just using the tone knob & his bar, no switching. I think the sound in those earlier clips of Vance is very similar. Did he have an actual killswitch on his guitar?