The Steel Guitar Forum

That looks right, Dennis - thanks!

It's just that little chromatic spot that had me guessing. Much appreciated.

He's all over this old Glen Campbell track but there's a pattern he was fond of playing back in the '70s that always caught my ear.

It's right at the 2'25" mark (over the 4 chord); I can't find it. Any clues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2GWY4OzKA

You got that right, Fred. It's hard to beat that tuning.

Ha! This is indeed the place! :) Where, if not here, eh? Dale: My aim is to find a solution to as many harmonic conundrums as I can, especially on E9. I idle away my time doing this, now I no longer play for a living. You do much the same, but not being able to put it into words or theoretical terms...

That's a good idea, And C#m9 (14th fret): 10,9,7,6 (B/C pedals) F#7 (14th) 9,6,5 (np) Bm9 (9th fret) 9,6,5,4 (A/B pedals (picking the 6,5,4 consecutively gives us the melody): (Ah: I now see that's what you wrote) "Take pedals BC up for the dom5 sound same fret and resolve 5 frets lower with AB...

I'd seen that relationship, Andrew (Emaj7/C#m being relative to each other); it took a moment, though. I'm still surprised that standard charts for this tune don't make it C#m9; that '9' is the melody rather than a flavor note. My E9 version sounds every bit as full as on C6; I'm not missing that C#...

That's true, Fred, and I do have that change, but I wanted to maintain a thicker timbre and keep it more C6-like, tonally speaking. The C#m7/9 (although it lacks an actual C#) on 9,6,5 sounds more compact and the resolution to F#7 simply by releasing the A/B pedals is smoother. I think that 'add 9' ...

That's a very pretty thing! There's nothing more elegant than a grand auditorium Martin. Not a prospective buyer, but I wanted to express my pleasure at seeing such a piece here. (I have a '27 0-18, a '47 000-18, a '52 000-21 and a late (2004 Custom Shop 000-28). I never took to the aesthetics of th...

This may belong in 'Music' but, here goes... It's traditionally in Bb. Every single chart for this tune (fake-books, etc) gives the first chords of the bridge as C#m7/F#7/Bmaj9 (down a tone, it's the iim/dom7/1maj9, the sequence descending in whole steps thereafter). Interestingly, the melody note (...

I've become my own 'tech' now. It's too far to get to a real one.

He's Travis Toy's double (except for the Mullen)!

I can tell you which one looks the oldest.

Thanks, Ian. I don't care for them aesthetically, but I must say the tuning is really stable. I barely have to touch it whereas my Emmons is prey to the ups-and-downs of FL weather. I finished changing strings and mine's not quite as neat as yours, Ian. It's certainly nothing like it was when new tw...

Ian: I'm changing strings for the first time on my new keyless Williams. I'm finding it challenging to maintain that 1/4" that Bill R. recommends (between the nut-roller and the string-holding block); you can start that way but, once you tune up, the block has to move away from the nut. It's my...

I will say this for Bobbe; I once caught him in a rare moment of humility. This was 2004, I think, at the Chattanooga Show. I wandered up to where Bobbe was setting out his sales table and he looked a little bit down. Quietly, I asked him if he was okay. He had this slightly haunted look as he told ...

Thanks, Jerry!

Where can one buy these? I can't imagine that they're exclusively made for steel guitars. Are they a hardware-store item? I know that there are known sources, but sometimes a 'minimum order' is applied. Does anyone know the right thread for an Emmons LeGrande? As a 'PS', I have to admit to a bit of ...

I'm with Bob Hoffnar on this one. The things he'd make up just to get out of a scrape defied credibility, yet you'd stand there nodding in agreement. He did me a favour or two but I was lucky! There were some outlandish yarns about repairs being returned to the customer minus a part or two. But: he ...

A bump for this. I ordered the DVD from the Hal Rugg Foundation and it arrived very quickly. It's been twenty years since I heard these master-players doing what they do best. It's an inspiration to me: how much we all miss these two guys! $15.00 - that's all. Support the Rugg Foundation and listen ...

Jon is one of the heroes of the SGF - I wish he didn't live so far away!

He's helped me numerous times via PM and stopped me making a gigantic blunder more than once!!

Thanks, Jon.

I recall Andy Reiss telling me about the studio steel player who, seconds before he's about to do the overdub on C6th on a whim, hears a voice sounding in his ear:

"Think of your family!"

Apocryphal, no doubt, but amusing.

Right.

That's when I go 'quiet', too.

Well done, Dan!

Isn't it great when you figure things out then, putting theory into practice, you pull it off and it works out like you thought?

I'm in Naples, but no longer working.

Still studying both necks hard, though; nothing's changed!