The Steel Guitar Forum

I have a couple of those old stands like the one shown on Ebay. If anyone is interested let me know via a PM.
Cheers!

I'm right there with you Erv.

Or is that what you are offering?

Nope.

Yes, that is the general idea Brad.To have the option of the song scribed out in intervals/scale steps as well as tabs and standard notation.

Sorry Erv didn't mean to dampen the fire. But there doesn't seem to be much interest in intervals/scale steps in a tab editor so lets talk music. I've been interested in modes myself since Paul McCartney wrote Eleanor Rigby in a mode not chords. Modes are the ancestors of chordal music. Where did yo...

The Western musical scale we use is called the pentatonic scale and is based on two whole tones and a half tone.

Well Erv that's interesting and maybe worth it's own thread,
but I'm not quite sure what it has to do with if folks want a scale steps option in a tab editor?

Okidok!

Jim,
You would stay with the original numbering system.
Maybe I'm a little confused? Not the first time.
Don't quite understand how changing the chord would change the key?
As in Open D the IV chord is G.

Hi Jim, Well it's not the Nashville Number System but similar. Scale steps are the same as intervals. Tab editors scribe midi's usually in tabs or standard musical notation, scale steps would be another option. Scale steps are the numbers in a scale, for instance the root is 1 and so on through 7, n...

Hi folks! After a couple strokes and a heart attack I'm up and at it again. When I first started playing and took lessons from good buddy Pete Grant, Pete taught me using scale steps instead of tabs. My question is: How many of you also use scale steps? And would you like to see a software program t...

O.K....So for all the tuning arguments that I've witnessed over the years, especially the open G over open D battle, here's something interesting. Scientists have captured the sound of a single atom...and it's tuned to D! About 20 octaves above the highest D on a grand piano. Have to say open D has ...

Hi Ron,

No, don't have it...I'm sorry.

Ron Bednar

Doug and Stephen... I understand...thanks for the corrections and explanation...much appreciated. I changed the original post so that it is better worded. Interesting that CBS also bought the Rogers drum company in the late 60's. I once owned and played a set of pre-CBS Rogers drums that were valued...

Thank you Russ, edits were done as suggested.

Cheers,
Ron

Always welcome corrections to posts and expect the experts here to chime in...thank you all for your input...it is much welcome. The serial number that I found, under the blend wheel behind the bridge, is 3029. According to what I was able to find from multiple sources is that according to that numb...

A lap steel floor stand. One arm moves over it's stop but a piece of tape holds them together fine. Takes down into a compact three piece package. It's as solid as a rock for playing. If you have questions please post on the thread, if you want to buy please send me a PM...FCFS. The price is fixed s...

A six string Fender Deluxe that is autographed by Don Helms with the date of 2001. The Deluxe was offered in six and eight string models. Although called the Deluxe it is built with the same neck and electronics as the Stringmasters which have two, three and four necks. According to the logo style a...

Hey, that's my sister!

On her 20th birthday... with her present... she wanted a truck.

Thanks for posting that Greg! Those are both amazing sounding guitars... I thought in the first clip the National seemed a little louder. But couldn't really tell in the second clip. The National guitar is awesome. For me...and especially considering the price points...there would be no question. Re...

Tim, you are absolutely right...
I apologize for taking the thread off track.
I'd like to hear what the differences are too.

As we all know, there are two sides to every story.

Yep that's true.

I've seen and heard Pete's and am pretty sure his is a Teacher's model. Not in as pristine a condition but much fancier details on the body...lots of scrolling etc. But it does sound wonderfully rich. I remember him telling me he used it in a studio session and the engineer was blown away by it's to...

I have always been bit boggled by even the highest priced resonators using that old relatively thin stamped metal tailpiece. Any reso can be improved by changing that stamped out relic to a solid metal tailpiece. An RS-2 by Allen for instance, or something similar, if there are any. Well worth the p...

Mike...That thing sounds awful! I had the same reaction to hearing those old "sitar bars"...remember them? A one trick pony that thankfully fell by the wayside. Like them, a buzzy nut or bridge does not a sitar make. However I did play around years ago with sympathetic strings on a reso......

Tom, Like Stefan was saying a search of the archives will show you variations on your question going back for sometime. However here is a tuning based on the Open D you are used to that serves one fine player very well. Pete Grant's eight string tuning: .013 F# .015 E .017 D .022p A .026w F# .035 D ...

Daniel, The price is right so why even mess with the guitar? That is a lot of unnecessary work. The truth is unless you entirely rebuild the guitar, adding a sound plate of some sort and a better pickup you are not going to make any difference in it's sound. I'd say leave it as is and enjoy it for w...