The Steel Guitar Forum

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For live performance, I've been very pleased with the sound from a Revelation pre-amp straight into the board. The sound of steel from my monitor wedge is the same sound as foh, so I know what it sounds like.

I don't know how electronic keyboards are tuned. They all default to equal temperament. But since about the time you last saw Halley's comet, most of them offer a choice of historical temperaments. For example my Roland has Equal, Just Major, Just Minor, Pythagorean, Kirnberger I, Kirnberger II, Ki...

Jack Hanson wrote: ..how many couples are still together.

Marriage duration is inversely proportional the the cost of the wedding.

I put up a video showing how to get 2 independently tunable half-stops on the same knee lever on a push/pull :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tlXL6eYaAQ

I've had that change on my RKR for as long as I can remember, on all 3 G# strings. On some of them I don't lower the high G# string because the pull is too long/stiff.

Just above your red circle, it looks like the hook on the pedal rod isn't going thru the hole as it should. The pedal rods on A and C pedals look OK.

I would be interested in hearing something of his background before Taylortucky.

Doug Jernigan re-tunes his first string D up to G to play his solo Streets Of Laredo.

I had so much fun yesterday playing Save The Bones For Henry Jones 'Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat in the Glendale sun that I'm going back at noon today to do it again.

Richard Sinkler wrote:How much time would you need between songs to put it in?

How much time would it take to just tune the strings with your left hand?

I can't listen to it because the choppy rhythm makes me nervous. But I did love listening to Curly play E9 on the Wilburn Brothers show.

I aim for:
major thirds 390 cents
minor thirds 307.5 cents

I wish it had been about 3 hours closer to home.

David Higginbotham wrote: My GFI is a 1993 model and the 8th of only 10 built before improvements were made to the model you have.

What changed did Gene make then? I think mine is older than that.

Thanks for that Johnny. I think my favorite thing about the steel guitar is that I can get so much pleasure from hearing someone whose approach is so completely different from mine.

Looks like Red but sounds like Mooney.

I just move my chair an inch to the left.

I found that the best way to reduce hum with my old single-coil Sho-Bud was to tip the guitar over, lie flat on my back, and lay the Sho-Bud across my chest. But my intonation suffered, and it interfered with my breathing.

I don't think I could ever get comfortable operating the volume pedal like that.

go low

The only song I can sing is Giddyup Go, but somebody else has to play steel. That's how the knee lever got busted off my Sho-Bud.

Olaf van Roggen wrote:"Crazy man crazy" with Bobby Black on steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ88XSpvgo

Yeah Bobby !!

I wanted longer springs on my Sho-Bud, so I just put a piece to hold them on the outside of the end plate: