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- 8 Mar 2023 4:09 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: How do you go about learning a tune by ear?
- Replies: 32
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- 6 Sep 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Most needlessly complicated? The Pencilina
- Replies: 11
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- 22 Aug 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: VIDEO-Old Joe Clark
- Replies: 12
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- 18 Aug 2022 6:03 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Paradise Isle
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1313
Hi Rick, that whammy bar is a pretty cool way of overcoming your nerve issue in your hand/wrist and got me thinking. Jeff Beck uses a floating Whammy bar so he can not only go down in pitch, but up in pitch as well? If you could find a way to float your whammy bar like Beck does, you could have the ...
- 8 Aug 2022 3:31 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Nice vintage photo - kid with Gibson EH lap steel
- Replies: 6
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- 8 Aug 2022 3:21 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Remembering the changes.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7701
I was thinking what else I do to force myself to try and remember chord progressions. I guess if you really want to get good at memorizing the chords (and this takes work and a lot of repetition), all you have to do is start thinking about and writing out the different Key Centers within a progressi...
- 3 Aug 2022 9:42 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Remembering the changes.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7701
Being mostly a self taught musician when it comes to steel, upright bass, alto sax and guitar, I realized I had developed a bad habit in my youth of memorizing written music lead lines on clarinet in school without memorizing or even knowing the chord progression because it wasn't on the music. I st...
- 31 Jul 2022 4:03 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Herbert Hanawahine 7 string Ric Panda tuning?
- Replies: 2
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Herbert Hanawahine 7 string Ric Panda tuning?
I've been enjoying watching Herbert Hanawahine perform at the "Oct 8th 2021 HSGA Festival 2" and was wondering if anybody knows what tuning he was using? He was known to play a triple neck steel that had E7, C13 and B11 as his tunings. The 7 string tuning could be Jerry Byrd's C6 tuning wi...
- 20 Jul 2022 10:56 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What is Ian Ufton's lap steel tuning?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1042
OK, reread your first reply Mike and I understand that the Panda steel Ian Ufton gave you that Sol used to own and was tuned low to high...BDEG#C#E...is probable the tuning Ian Ufton was using on 6 string steel...(Got It)lol. I know Sebastian and I think you as well, use this tuning for your standar...
- 20 Jul 2022 9:21 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What is Ian Ufton's lap steel tuning?
- Replies: 6
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- 20 Jul 2022 8:53 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What is Ian Ufton's lap steel tuning?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1042
Thanks Mike, that's what I was thinking after reading he was influenced by Sol and was given one of his Panda's by Sol's wife. Great style, very relaxing and reminiscent of what soldiers probable heard in the bars in Oahu back in WWII. I have a nice Magnatone that's always tuned to Sol's C#min7 tuni...
- 19 Jul 2022 9:08 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What is Ian Ufton's lap steel tuning?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1042
What is Ian Ufton's lap steel tuning?
I really like Ian Ufton's relaxed style of Hawaiian lap steel playing. Does anyone know what tuning he uses and where you can buy his Hawaiian Music CD's? Thanks...
- 7 Jun 2022 2:58 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: New possibilities for creating music
- Replies: 16
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- 30 May 2022 6:53 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Magnatone...? lap steel
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6045
That's a nice looking Magnatone. I still have 4 that are all tuned to different tunings and made of different woods. I use the heaviest string gauges I can for each particular tuning which gives you a fatter sound. One has a Dickerson decal on the headstock and is still my favorite to this day even ...
- 3 Apr 2022 9:46 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony - Bert Ligon
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7861
- 27 Jun 2021 8:38 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Leon McAuliffe radio broadcast, April 1948
- Replies: 5
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- 29 Jan 2021 10:44 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Interview with Jeff Au Hoy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2152
Levi, thanks for posting this. That G11 tuning sounded pretty hip that Jeff was playing at 1.05.3 of the video. Reminded me of a 1940's style glamorous movie sound track. I guess it's similar to B11 since Jeff started riffing on Sand with it. Jeff really has some nice tone with that old Deluxe clone...
- 17 Jan 2021 2:23 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Recording of Sol Hoopii Rickenbacher playing some jazz
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5891
That's impressive, great tone and very in-tune playing. I think that's the best jazz tune I've heard on non peddle steel for being in-tune and sounding like a typical straight ahead jazz performance piece. I personally can't play in-tune close enough on steel to satisfy my own jazz style that I can ...
- 17 Dec 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What’s Wrong with C#m7?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4917
To the best of my knowledge, Sleepwalk used this particular C#min7 tuning...low to high...E,G#,B,C#,E,G#,C#,E. I first learned it in C#min7 tuning on a 6 string lap and then relearned it on C6 tuning. There was almost no difference in being able to play it pretty much note for note that your average...
- 15 Dec 2020 2:17 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: What’s Wrong with C#m7?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4917
I really like the vintage sound of Sol's C#min7 tuning, low to high EBEG#C#E. After a few years of frustrating myself to death trying to play Jazz on C6 tuning as a way to help learn steel, I finally decided it wasn't the best suited for me compared to playing jazz lines on guitar or other instrumen...
- 30 Nov 2020 6:27 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: King Benny Nawahi Island Lords Transcriptions
- Replies: 5
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- 29 Nov 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Kalama's Quartet, with Mike Hanapi (lead steel) circa 1927
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2023
Kalama's Quartet, with Mike Hanapi (lead steel) circa 1927
While looking up some King Benny after Andy's great post, I stumbled across this great gem of a live performance from 1927...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmN3E2tqOvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmN3E2tqOvU
- 29 Nov 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Kawohikukapulani
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3250
Hi Rick, good to hear your still playing. I really love the sound of the 25.5 Tenor, reminds me of Dick McIntire's tone. The vibrato on the single string video is very nice. I've been fooling around on Sol's C#min7 tuning and stuff from the 30' and 40'on my old blue Magnatone. I'm pretty sure I need...
- 18 Nov 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Who still play C#m
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2433
- 18 Nov 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Your favorite steel and why? Vintage or New
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5861
Even though I have a nice Ric Panda with the wide shoes, my favorite lap steels are three mother of toilet seat Magnatones with heavy strings tuned C6, E6 and C#min7 (Sol Hoopii). I leave them off to the side of my electronics bench and just grab them to play when the urge hits me. Got them all pret...