The Steel Guitar Forum

When I got my 71 Emmons, it only had two knee levers, RKR lowered the E's, and LKR lowered the second string Eb to D. Then with help I had the E to F pull on RKL, changed the 2nd string to D and lower it to C# with the LKR.My 3rd pedal only has F# pull.I'm happy with it, don't plan on any more chang...

I'm slowly restoring an old Miller Dbl 10 and it had red flocking.So I started calling around different fabric stores for flocking material and when the women wounder answer the phone, well you can imagine what they thought when I asked for flocking.What a hassel, until I told them it was put inside...

It was Willie Nelson on the show last night. Not one of my favorites but it was better than nothing.I'm waiting for the one with Alvin Crow and the Pleasent Valley Boys and maybe see a young Herbster playing steel.Will have to stay glued for that show.I don't know how many times Alvin Crow played on...

Didn't Walter Haynes play some of that Cajun music on steel with Jimmie C. Newman? Seems I remember (CRS)that he played with Jimmie C.......

I think there was another line in the song mentioning " A Georgia Overdrive" I'd like to know what exactlly is a Gerogia Overdrive??????

In this order and all day long.(Maybe)...
Half a Mind - Ernest Tubb(W/Buddy Emmons)
Mary - Bob Wills ( I think Gene Crownover played steel) and,
Oklahoma Stomp -Spade Cooley (With Mr. Murphy)

For Me it's Rocky Top. I cringe everytime I hear that song by anybody,whether it's Bluegrass or Country Rock, or what have you.If I never hear that song again, it will be too soon.

I bought a whole set of tubes for my 71 Fender Twin at www.tubesandmore.com and they have a lot of parts for Fender amps. I paid approx. $105.00 for the whole set of tubes.

Jussi, one other thing, I first met Jay Decker in late 1969. I stopped in the Montana Club one evening for a few brews and Jay was up there banging away and I noticed that one of his pedal rods was made from a coat hanger. Does this guitar have a coat hanger for a pedal rod or are all the original p...

Jussi, you mentioned that the name Jay Decker was on the front of your steel.I knew a Jay Decker in Alaska, and he use to play at the old Montana Club and played what I believe was a triple neck Wright Custom. This was back in the early 70's, and even then the guitar looked very wobbly up on the sta...

Smiley, the group called "Prairie Ramblers" sounds like a group that played on the old WLS Barn Dance in Chicago on Saturday nights back in the 40's and 50's.

This has nothing to do with Banjo's, my quest for knowledge is how do you tune a Tenor Guitar, you know one of those 4 string models???? Would it be tuned like a Tenor 4 string Banjo? Beats me.

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I'd have a check ready to send to Keith to buy a tone/volume pedal. With today's electonics, It would be twice as good as my two Fender Volume/tone pedals. Sleep on it Keith, I think you would have a few buyers here on the forum.Well, maybe more than a few.

Hey gentlemen, what shows up on my computer is www.broadcast.com/concerts/willienelson/
nationtv. I have it on my favorites as texasnation.I had the Wilburn Bros. show on a few minutes ago.So something must be working, unless we're talking about two different shows.

Bob, I listen to channel 591 on my Dishnetwork and listen to Classic Country, 50's/60's/ and 70's. I'll have to cruise over to 950 and give a listen.I assume we all get the same channel numbers. I'm in North Central Indiana.

Looks like you could put 3 different tunings on this guitar.That would be two eight string and one ten string tuning, get a quart of Jack Daniels and just have a ball.I'd crank up the volume just to annoy the neighbors with the all night barking dogs.

I'm looking for information on the size(input and output/Ohms) for the Fender Twin Reverb Tanks. My twin is a 1971 model, with stock 12" Fender Speakers.I haven't taken mine out yet, but I believe it may be 8 ohmns input and about 2250 ohms output.Any ideas out there. One more question..."...

I was living in Anchorage, Alaska in 1971 and I found this ad in a magazine from a wholesale music place in Dallas Texas.I soon got there catalog and lo and behold they had a Fender Twin for something like $436.oo plus shipping.Well I sent them a money order for my Twin,and they in turn ordered it f...

David, I'm so glad you love the clear sounds of your CD's. I started at an early age with 78's, then they came out with the 45's, which meant a new record player. Then RCA came out with an automatic 45 changer player, which I had to plug into my Sears guitar amp.Then Hi Fi came along and 33 1/3 albu...

Okay people it's time to burn the midnight oil again.I have a Warner Bros. 45 RPM of Fats Domino singing a song titled "Whiskey Heaven" that is real down to earth honky tonk, pauses for the causes, and covorting around country music.To me Fats could do wicked Rock and Roll, plus Blues but ...

I have a Stoneway 45 RPM stereo/mono record, dated 1976 titled "Big Beaver" a Western Swing song by Dick Allen and The River Road Boys. Anyone ever hear of them and who may have played steel on it.With the deepness of the steel guitar sound I beleive he was using a Bb6th tuning.

Hey Slick, my sister in law who lives in Peach Tree City, Ga told me that she always gets knocked off with HotMail. I told her to go to eudoramail.com which is a free e-mail service and I and several others here at work have never had any problems at all.

Do any of you gentleman remember the old Carvin steel guitars? I beleive in the early/mid 60's they had a single 8 with a cam device on the bridge.In the forward postion I would assume was the standard tuning one would use,then raise the cam straight up for a second tuning,then all the way back for ...

Need the dimensions on a case for a T-8 Fender Stringmaster. Need the inside dimensions for the guitar storage area and also the leg storage area.Then I would need the overall exterior dimension,"length,width, and heigth". Can't find any original cases so I'll have one built.Can anyone out...