The Steel Guitar Forum

Dave Mudgett already asked for Mike Bloomfield's Sunburst Les Paul so... Earl Hooker's Gibson double neck George Pritchett's custom ordered thin line Blonde Epiphone Emperor with a single Christian pickup Bill Jennings' Gretsch Electromatic with the double pick guard customization because he was lef...

74. Two Levin arch tops, Epiphone M, Three different Oahu Iolana double necks, National 1010 Special 8 String Model, Electradair PSG. Maybe an Epi EHARP is older but I don't remember. All the other stuff is newer, a lot newer. Also "fostering" a pair of Gibson ES-150's with matching amps a...

1967 into 1968...Club Alex, later known as The 1815, Howlin' Wolf's, and Eddie Shaw's Place. Earl Hooker's working band with Freddie Roulette, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker singing and playing organ and electric piano, Jack Myers or Earnest "Big Train" Johnson on bass, Odell Campbell...

Look HARD at that picture. Instead of the standard "Dual Eight Pro" triple leg arrangement there are four legs. Two are side by side and it looks as if there is a rod or cable in between them running down to the floor. Then look at Shot's left foot angle. Looks like he's using a single ped...

The original version of the Electraharp with the full length wood panels on front and sides was made in a very small quantity. Six pedals and eight strings. From a direct conversation with Gibson's Julius Bellson they were shipped with an E7th tuning unless specified otherwise by the ordering dealer...

Being in Canada puts you at a disadvantage with much less available to you without importing. Earliest would be the Dickerson/Magnatone pushbutton "MultiMatic". Good luck finding one, and getting it to work. Same for the Epiphone "VariChord". Then there was the National "Ele...

Re: console Rickenbacker...
22.5" scale is a JB (Jerry Byrd) model
25" scale is a CW (Country Western) model
Scale length is the only difference, parts and construction are identical.
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I have a full page advert of 229K with what looks like a metal "horseshoe' pickup that is dated December 1937. Also another earlier and different advert from sometime in the fall of 1937 that I'm not digging out just to get the exact month. probably a "horseshoe' on that one too. Catalog 1...

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Bringing this back up as I have been off-line for a year with no internet. Edited the entire list to be current. Use PM, need a new email. USA only and no PayPal or other "virtual" payments.

Bringing this back up as I have been off-line for a year without internet. Edited the entire list to be current. Use PM, need a new email. USA only and no PayPal or other "virtual' payment.

Bringing this back up as I have been off-line for a year with no internet. Edited the entire list to be current. Use PM, need a new email. USA only and no PayPal or other "virtual' payments.

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OK, the Harmolin had one lever giving a half tone raise and the other a half tone lower. Knee lever linked to a rod that linked to the "tensioning member". Pivoting the "member" down to lower or up to raise. Everything on the neck, headstock, and nut. Nothing on the body or bridg...

The OP is looking for "a 2 knee lever bender for lap/console steel" which is what the above mentioned Harmolin had about eighty years ago. If you or your library has back issues of Guitar Player magazine you can see it in the November 1988 issue, page 127, Richard Smith's "Rare Bird, ...

The Phil Baugh unit was profiled in Guitar Player magazine's October 1974 issue. "Power to the Pedal, Phil Baugh's New Invention" A six pedal floor unit attaching with flexible cables. Raised and lowered any string. Changer did not interfere with picking positioning and was low profile eno...

FWIW the Wikipedia article on "our' Floyd Smith is a mess. There was another Floyd Smith from Chicago who was a recording artist and producer. The writer/researcher has combined information and dates on both of them without doing any research. Typical when you do an online search. So don't beli...

Floyd Smith recorded multiple versions of "FGB", the first was with Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds Of Joy; Then the Hy-Tone label version in the YouTube link above, after that a much wilder version on King. Finally, on his only LP recorded in France he played it on standard guitar. He spent the...

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That Tri-Cone is long gone. Fifty plus years ago. Arnold never recorded after WWII. Being "rediscovered" does not mean he started to play again. As far as I know he never did and being here and involved I would have known about it. He was visited and interviewed by French and English resea...

I'm almost positive Arnold played on his lap at all times. None of his recordings sound like bottleneck style with fingered notes. Arnold lived here in Chicago, on the 4400 block of South Calumet Avenue on the Near South Side. He passed away in late 1968. He was known to be left-handed. In 1969 I bo...

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