The Steel Guitar Forum

Or you can have Ben Bonham build you something like my Myrtle/rosewood tricone...check out his instagram page of past projects ....why not have the instrument of your dreams now, for the same price as a standard commercial one? Ben is happy to chat about possibilities, tricone, single cone, whateve...

It would be interesting to learn how other players are exploiting simple tunings to solve complex harmony problems. Alan— I play on one of the same tunings as you (L-H eGBDGBD) on a 7-string re-entrant resonator. Here are some of the options for minor chords I've explored: [tab] D. 1_____________...

1) Useful chord extension “out of the way”. Keeping the 6, 7 or M7 tonally above the root, easy to use, but also easy to avoid. This is what I’m doing with my current tuning, bDADF#AD 2) Major/minor swap. Putting the flat 3rd at close hand, but out of the way. For a while I did this with an o...

Goldurnitt, missed it!

But it seems that the stream is still available…do you happen to know for how much longer it can be accessed?

Thanks,
Dan and anyone else who might want to arrive late to the party

Would anyone currently playing/experimenting with a re-entrant tuning care to share an example or two of what you're doing with it? Video, sound, tab, etc…anything welcome…

Here's a list of 115 songs with Bob Dunn on steel, from the mid 1930s to about 1950. Only a very few after the early 40s. Here are 7 songs that I posting on my channel last year.All from 1939. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0cK1GLVYk Thanks, Mitch and Chris! The master song list is helpful to kn...

I appreciate the introduction to great sounds of the past which are unfamiliar to me :!: PostPosted: 16 Jul 2021 7:05pm Post subject: I just ordered this, i have maybe six songs from him on a comp but i wanna cop some of his technique, I'm guessing he plays in A tuning, at least it feels right to me...

Inspired by its mention in this very thread, I ordered a copy of 'Kealoha's Modern Harmony Method for Hawaiian Steel Guitar' (1935) and it arrived all the way from Australia a few days ago! As stated, the book is written for a 6-string re-entrant A7 tuning (g C# E A C# E). As a newcomer to lapsteel,...

Don't know about the past few weeks, but I ordered and received one a couple of months ago. He's also responded to emails more recently. Don't give up - he makes a really good bar.

Ditto: I also ordered a bar from him about four months ago. Haven't really touched the Dunlop since…

Have been admiring your performance(s) (and not just because of the name in the song title)! Such tasty and varied chords to accompany the flowing melody…I think you've inspired me to try tuning my high bass G low G string down to E… Let there be minor 7's …. and there were minor 7's 8) :?: Ho...

Ditto, ditto, ditto!

Oh, and after you post the sound clips please have it delivered to my local music store so I can at least try it out.

Look forward to it,
Thanks,
Dan

Joe A. Roberts wrote: Allan, if you are back to a 7 string open G, perhaps you could throw a reentrant F string on string 7 (or 6) and try the Kealoaha tab pages above. I am very curious about them but I don't have anything strung up close enough to try the tuning without drastic restringing Crying...

I recommend highly Guy Cundell's thesis and his other great academic work and transcriptions for anyone interested in the evolution of tunings in the 30s. If I recall correctly, he gets into the need at the time for new tunings that could better reflect the growing jazz repertoire and harmony of th...

A beauty!

Happy Honeymoon

In both of my primary learning methods from the same time period (late 30's), Alvino Rey's 'Modern Guitar Hawaiian Style' and the 'Gibson System for Hawaiian Guitar' (I think also written by Mr. Rey, at least in part) the lessons start in high bass A but switch to E7 (L-H E,B,D,G#, B,E)—different ...

Greetings from Central Jersey! So far I've listened to it between 5-10 times all the way through and love it! From my listener's perspective, it is a coherent next step after 'Steelonious' and a further development of your playing. It strikes me musically/emotionally similarly to Lyle Ritz's 'How Ab...

I'll have what you're having....

All you have to do is walk hard, Peter:

https://youtu.be/f_1mxNtLCK0

The musicians were secretly recorded as they were waiting for Brian Wilson to show up for the Pet Sounds Sessions while he was off on his search for an army of 50,000 didgeridoos

...and seemingly page one of the book of blues slide guitar in america, too! https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/06/the-forgotten-story-of-how-hawaiians-transformed-american-music/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-hawaiian-steel-guitar-changed-american-music-180972028/ These wer...

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Delightfully disorienting in most time/space dimensions!

There's a reason why an aluminum alloy has been used for 92 (?) years. Can you actually see spin marks in those cones or are they stamped? Curious. Good luck. They were spun. The lines were visible. According to this 3D printing services company, they can print in aluminum! Not solid aluminum, obvi...

I know that Paul Beard has "chucks" for the National cones. He's occasionally done some customization in the past. I don't know if this translates to something he can do so..best to reach out to him at Beard Guitars next week Thanks, H.P.! Seems like a logical place to start....then maybe...

Months ago I started my lap steel adventure by buying a John Morton 7 string tricone resonator on this very forum. I was told by the seller that it takes the standard National replacement cones, which put me at ease buying such a custom instrument. Opened it up today to find that it doesn't. At all!...

Sebastian,

Let us high bass A players know how good (or not) this method is, ok?

PostPosted: 6 May 2021 8:25am Post subject: Thanks, Bill. No slants, just pulls... Now my head is spinning the other way! My head is spinning BOTH ways :!: :eek: I was wondering the same thing while listening to your post: Slants? Levers? Secret pedal mechanisms? But, no....PULLS :!: :!: As a recov...