The Steel Guitar Forum

I've only been playing a few years, but it seems to me that "cabinet drop" is nothing to do with the cabinet bending when you press a pedal. An analogy:- If you have a Fender Stratocaster with the "floating" trem with springs in the back of the body, try pulling one string (say p...

I've got an S10. Nice and light to lug to lessons (especially with the Wheeleezee case) while leaving my Carter set up at home.

Dave

I've used Newtone on PSG and they're good. I hadn't thought that they were that expensive compared to 6 string geetar sets... bearing in mind that sets for Pedal Steel are pretty much unheard of in music shops here, and the custom gauge strings for regular guitar don't cover it either (try getting a...

I had the same problem with an Artist... I ordered some shorter pedal rods from Sierra, and adjusted the length of the front legs with the grub screw (if that's what you call it in the US). I also had someone with metal working equipment extend the adjustment slot in the back legs so that the steel ...

.. which is why their name is laser-etched into the end of the bar...

Thanks Ed and Bill

Dave Carr (#81)

I'm very happy with mine too 8^)

Cheers,
Dave

I'm very happy with mine too 8^)

Cheers,
Dave

I'm very happy with mine too 8^)

Cheers,
Dave

As an 8 or 9-year old, went to see the Beatles play in a cinema in Sheffield (UK) with my big brother ('62? They were top of the bill of a package tour of Liverpool bands (just before they really made it massive)). The girls' screaming was deafening. Blackmailed my Dad to buy me a guitar after that....

If this was the concert taped in Spain, it was shown here (UK) last week. BJ Cole seemed to play on most songs. However, the sound man wasn't as kind to him as he could have been (kept him low in the mix, at least on the TV mix). What surprised me was BJC's ability to teleport during "Roxanne&q...

I think the player may be Melvin Duffy...
Are you out there Melvin, can you confirm? 8^)
Dave.

Sorry, I've only just spotted the replies to my posting. Johan, I don't know who the player is; he looks fairly young (for a steel player 8^). Robbie's come in at number one in the singles charts this week in the UK, predictably, (with steel on both sides of his double A-side!). Perhaps you could ta...

The foremost solo male performer in the UK at the present has got a PSG player in the band (and he appears fairly prominently on the forthcoming single release). For the benefit of USA readers, Robbie has sold millions of albums (14 million?), but is unknown in the USA. He is a mainstream pop artist...

You would be better with a switch setup which has an input and 2 selectable outputs (selected by the footswitch). I have one from the year dot called a "Switch Blade" which is a passive A-B selector switch. Just having other things connected via a Y cord may mess with the resistance in the...

I'm no keyboard player either, but the Pianet was a classic 60's instrument. If it's in working order and cheap, it could be worth buying and hanging onto. On the other hand, if you want a 21st. century gigging machine with all the latest sounds, look elsewhere. I seem to recall the "action&quo...

You might be much better looking out for a second-hand drum machine (as long as the manual comes with it). Drum sounds go out of fashion (at least here in the UK), and you find that people are looking to sell their last machines. (Ironically, the oldest drum machines tend to be the trendiest and are...