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by John Soper
4 May 2006 9:18 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: stringing up a sixth tuning on a dobro
Replies: 12
Views: 1491

How about just modifying a G-B-D X 2 standard dobro to a D6: F#-B-D X 2 or raising everything up a full step to an E6? Standard string guages should work & you can pop in & out of a Dobro-esq tuning...
by John Soper
2 May 2006 4:08 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: New CD out by The Moonlighters!!
Replies: 40
Views: 3821

Got mine last week & it continues to hog space in the auto's CD player...

Great tunes, great vocal arrangements, wonderful/tasty instrumental arrangements - Mike, you really play for the tune.

Thanks- my fave Moonlighter's to date.
by John Soper
26 Apr 2006 7:18 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Hi - New to Forum
Replies: 12
Views: 1167

As a fellow North Carolinian who travelled with Dan up to Millwood: a big hey to everybody I met- it was a great weekend & great to put names & faces together... it's been said more eloquently by others, but I want again to thank Rick for a great party. I have to blame this forum and HSGA me...
by John Soper
21 Apr 2006 5:38 am
Forum: Steel Without Pedals
Topic: Was Joseph Kekuku a time traveller?
Replies: 44
Views: 4848

Don't forget the long tradition among many African cultures for using various sticks, bones, etc to produce notes on non-fretted instruments, leading to the Diddly-Bow and the use of knives & other implements to fret guitars in the USA... probably too far removed, but: Any African-American sailo...