The Steel Guitar Forum

After being at my first 3 or 4 ISGC in the early 2000ls I was hooked! Got to meet some of the world's greatest; Hughy, Emmons, Don Helms, Lloyd Green Doug Jernigan, Jeff Newman, Bud Carter, Sarah Jorey and a few more I cannot recollect, JUST PLAIN WOW! I had to have a steel or, or. My steel playing ...

Looking for qualified repair person for issue regarding my 2004 Carter SD 10 3-5. Someone somewhere within a couple hours of Madison Wi. I had a rod break malfunction and received replacement parts from Al Brisco, the Carter owner at the time. I've never been able to re-tune the affected pedals, 3 &...

A safe and secure journey back to our Creator, Ron has joined the faithful and crossed the river Jordan. He's meeting up with the many great steel players and all of country music's finest up there. April 19 2019 was his last "Jam" and his wonderful steel guitar music and many band group s...

Thanks for the site for the Carter Ops manual. I'll read some more, tinker some more & so on. I really appreciate the help as I'm sometime out of circulation with other players and just thought the SGForum might help I'm located NW of Madison Wi & don't know anyone who looks at/fixes, etc. T...

Having trouble tuning string 3 & 6 open then 2 pedal down.
Clueless.

The ear of the "beholder" is sometimes bent toward a particular sound one has heard before and formed a solid opinion about. Most of you know how "Awstruck" and "Amazed" you were in your youngest years of attempting to play any instrument, steel in particular. You'd hea...

Tom Bradshaw, Thank You! Your fast and accurate service in getting me the new "pot" for my Goodrich pedal. Installed it same day and it works great. Your web site was easy to find and easy to navigate. I also thank several other steel players for mentioning your site on the forum. That sav...

Lee Being a "late bloomer" attempting to play the steel, I have observed over many years of watching players of this magnificent instrument and their vastly different ways of holding the bar. The most interesting thing is to look at the size of the individuals hand. I believe this is the g...

OH GOOD! Now we're gonna have someone start a "CHORD Police Force" to snuff out individual interpretation of a particular song on the steel guitar. "Great Idea".......NOT ! ! If you banned all those particular chords that YOU don't particularly like, what does that do to all the ...

Ray: RFD, had the Porter W. Show the other night with Conway & the band as the guests. They did "Working Girl" and the steel pickin' was great. Hard for me to recognize who the steeler was but I didn't meet the wonderful John Hughey till 2003. Conway and the band did another song early...

A few years ago I picked up a Willy Nelson album titled "Just One Love" and the credits listed the big "E" as steel player along with some other great players. The fact that Buddy Emmons was listed was as much of a factor in buying the CD as was Willie. A nice bunch of real good ...

Bill I haven't a solution for you but consider the following for hopefully a little inspiration at the very least. I have an aquaintence who lost a right arm in his early youth but as an adult became a very low handicap golfer. I recently rcd an e-mail titled, "Amazing Woman", A story of a...

Bernie Liebe Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, jacket, kromer, choppers, steel toe Red Wings, bibs, long johns, longer johns 'n other carry on wardrobe ta prove it! Yes, you wear it all at the same time in the North country railroad territories. That's why I'm a late bloomer in steelin'! Owned...

Great job booking one of the "Elite" players in the Steel Guitar World, Craig! Everyone needs to know that you and your entire staff along with many helpers put forth a supreme effort to make the Dairy State Jam a success, and it always is. The ocassional weather snafoo shouldn't deter any...

Thanks for the welcome fellow steelers. I indeed feeel like i've come into a family with much in common with most of you! After all we're all family anyway according to The Almighty. Thanks Jack, I spent my share of time in and around the Ft Sill area. Every place has it's special beauty. Florida, S...

As a new S G Forum member I'd like to thank the rest of the forum contributors for all the tips & tactics helping me & others to be better players or just listeners. I'm a late bloomer as a player of this beautiful PSG instrument so any help I may get from the forum, or anywhere else is alwa...