The Steel Guitar Forum

There's a great website, LOOKNOHANDS.COM where you can tune a phantom guitar any way you want, it will show you chord patterns and the notes on the pattern if you wish.

Joe

FYI for Dobro afficiandos, Dick Blattenberger, the great Dobro Guru to so many of us, will receive a special lifetime achievement award tomorrow, Sat, June 24th at the Lehigh Valley Bluegrass Festival in Schnecksville, PA. The award will be presented by none other than Mike Auldridge. Presenation ti...

That's about all I can do with mine!

Joe Wills

That looks like the original version of the National Electric Hawaiian. Mine is a 1935-36, came out of a landfill. You should have seen it prior to restoration. All those years it lay out in the weather, paint gone, fretboard bleached white, one string on, and a tuner missing. Electronics worked, th...

NEVER during a performance, but sometimes while practicing, especially mandolin, never Dobro. Only once during a rehearsal...

Anyone have a 14-fret Standel or Dobro instrument for sale? Looking for one.
Please respond to mrjobro@verizon.net.

Thanks! Joe

I never thought about this, but keep in mind a steel guitar is fretless, you approximate bar position. Developing a nice vibrato eliminates intonation problems and the need for compensation!

Joe Wills, Z88-9, Warm hearted Country, and the BAD DOGZ

Interesting discussion! I haven't flown in years, but if I did I'd pack my bar and picks in the suitcase. Wouldn't want to lose a bar; mine were custom made for me by a friend.
Alas; while the morons are busy confiscating an American steel players bar, they'd pass Rasheed right through...

That should read "popsicle stick"!

Joe

It might be the spider rattling against the cone. Take an un-sharpened pencil, posicle stick or such, reach in through a hole in the cover plate near the edge and push on the side of the spider to move it very slightly. That sometimes fixes the buzz...but BE CAREFUL! Dick Blattenberger taught me tha...

Alan Kirk writes: <<..."classically trained" music teachers. They have done more to turn off people to music than any other factor. >> I couldn't agree more! First came the music, then someone wrote it down. You learn to speak first, then read and write! A lady from Virginia, Murphy Henry ...

I don't have any pickups installed, I always mic. The problem there is that the volume must be turned up high enough so the Dobro will be heard, and you have to learn to "work the mic" so you remain closed to it. my son-in-law, who is an EXCELLENT audio engineer want to try a dual micropho...

...and I thought the coal miner's wake I played at was unusual.
Nu...any yentas in designer grass skirts?

John McGann writes <<Try not to practice too close to a picture window>>.
When I was learning reverse slants, I was sitting bare foot on a couch. Drop a bar about 18 inches onto your big toe once or twice and you'll learn how to hang on to it!

Nothing to do with his guit/steel, but Junior's one heck of a vocalist...if you like a powerful uncompromising country baritone. I personally do!

"Lap Steels of the Carribean"?
All ya need is skeletal hands and a bone fer a slide, matey!

Some unusual sounds on that CD, but very interesting. Beyond the usual instrumental albums, stuff you may never hear anywhere else!

FINALLY got to met Jimmy Heffernan last Saturday at Camp Jam in the Pines at Paradise Lake Campground. Jimmy's DYNAMITE on reso and banjo as well. He's a good friend of a good friend, but I had never met him. It was a pleasure listening to him; he's a true professional musician. Anyone lucky enough ...

Many thanks to Ron Victoria for coming out to the New Jersey Folk Festival and supporting my band WARM HEARTED COUNTRY! It was pleasure meeting him, and we appreciate the photos he took, adjusting my microphone when I switched from banjo back to Dobro and lugging the banjo back to my car after the p...

The 5th Annual Z88-9 FREE Bluegrass Concert is scheduled for Sunday, April 30th Noon-4pm on the campus of Burlington County College, Rt 530, Pemberton, NJ. Featured artists for this year are: LOU REID & CAROLINA; Lou's song TIME is no. 1 in the charts for April. The JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND. Merlf...

The 5th Annual Z88-9 FREE Bluegrass Concert is scheduled for Sunday, April 30th Noon-4pm on the campus of Burlington County College, Rt 530, Pemberton, NJ. Featured artists for this year are: LOU REID & CAROLINA; Lou's song TIME is no. 1 in the charts for April. The JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND. Merlf...

The 5th Annual Z88-9 FREE Bluegrass Concert is scheduled for Sunday, April 30th Noon-4pm on the campus of Burlington County College, Rt 530, Pemberton, NJ. Featured artists for this year are: LOU REID & CAROLINA; Lou's song TIME is no. 1 in the charts for April. The JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND. Merlf...

THE 5TH ANNUAL Z88-9 FREE BLUEGRASS CONCERT IS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 30TH NOON-4PM ON THE CAMPUS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY COLLEGE, RT 530, PEMBERTON, NJ. FEATURED ARTISTS THIS YEAR ARE: LOU REID & CAROLINA; THE JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND; WIL MARING & ROBERT BOWLIN; AND MARK MIKLOS & THE R...

THE 5TH ANNUAL Z88-9 FREE BLUEGRASS CONCERT IS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 30TH NOON-4PM ON THE CAMPUS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY COLLEGE, RT 530, PEMBERTON, NJ. FEATURED ARTISTS THIS YEAR ARE: LOU REID & CAROLINA; THE JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND; WIL MARING & ROBERT BOWLIN; AND MARK MIKLOS & THE R...

THE 5TH ANNUAL Z88-9 FREE BLUEGRASS CONCERT IS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 30TH NOON-4PM ON THE CAMPUS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY COLLEGE, RT 530, PEMBERTON, NJ. FEATURED ARTISTS THIS YEAR ARE: LOU REID & CAROLINA; THE JEANETTE WILLIAMS BAND; WIL MARING & ROBERT BOWLIN; AND MARK MIKLOS & THE R...