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That's really fine Roy. A beautiful sound. Magic.

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Hi Peter My double ten is 22.5" center of nut to center of bridge. When I ordered mine I was never offered an option on the scale. But that was the scale I wanted so I didn't ask if there was an option. But I should have since I only assumed that were correct that it was 22.5". I've never ...

Thanks Brad In my first post, I realize I wrote July 15 when I meant August 15, '09. I used the link you gave to look at the Wiyo site and thought the guitar I you thought might be a double Gibson is the one I saw. Through the binoculars it seemed to have the flame maple front like the Console Grand...

I went to the Dylan concert on the 15th July in Stockton, last of the baseball field tour. I didn't spot a lap steel in the Dylan set up but Don Herron, did play sometimes on a psg that was off to my right from Dylan and often obscured. Very hard to hear it in the mix. But the most steel at the conc...

Hi Ron The photo was an 8x10 and is a posed Starr Studio set up of just Eddie and myself. I don't remember the circumstances. But Mrs. Starr was always bringing in a photographer for various events and I have these images because my Mother bought them and kept them. I only recently realized what the...

Wow, you guys are great. Between you I've gotten all kinds of great information. Having been a reference librarian in the California State Library' s California history section, I'm fascinated by the flow of these connections and how difficult it is to get information on the past. Brad, your post wa...

Thanks Brad. Your lead to Aloha resulted in me finding a website on those instruments that includes a reference to a "name" Aloha reportedly built by Magnatone in the 1950s. They have some great pictures of the steels that look very much like the one I played and one of them, a six string,...

Thanks to those who have looked at the post on the 8 string c1950. The angle of the image makes identification difficult. Yesterday I separately emailed that great resource, Michael Lee Allen, to make sure he knew of my post. He kindly replied that the guitar might be a Magnatone. But he doesn't hav...

I'd like help identifying the pictured guitar which have a different dated photo of me playing in 1951, age ten. Can't remember the maker.





Thanks for any help

Hi Bob, hope to see you the show and, of course, hear the Clinesmith at The Poor Boys Midnight Mass Sacramento.

Richard

Maestro Neer You, yourself and you and the Clinesmith brightened my day. I'm probably lost in the ozone but that sound connected me instantly with the 50s when I was a teenager playing the steel. Of course my playing didn't sound like that, but the pros did. Man that is fine. And you sounded like yo...

I think John is right. I think Sol's 2nd finger is arched to stay clear of the string as he chimes it with the 3rd or pinky. I kept wanting to move my chair to get a different angle on his hand. Somewhere I've seen this suggested as a method and I've tried it but my fingers don't like it. Ha! Richar...

Hi Basil

Are those body blanks stacked to lift the outer necks? Was it as heavy as it looks and how did it feel to play it?

Richard Terry

Rick was a fine, generous presence on the Forum. I will never forget those images of him on that Florida beach, standing where he stood, playing and the people moving past behind him, the living feel of it. The voices from the bar, the wind in the microphone. The journey right there in the moment. I...

Rick, the very best wishes for a speedy recovery. You are a most generous teacher, and though you don't know me at all, you've answered dozens of questions without me even having to ask. May you have the best doctors with the best hands.

Richard Terry

Edward

Is that string order, (G#-F#-E-C#-B-G#-F#-E-D-E), from high to low?

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Richard

Ah, bOb, you definitely know how to make a guy wish he'd bought on impulse. That Carvin sounds so friendly. Great sound for it. Thanks

Richard

Mark, you wrote

Its a floating channel of aluminum set into the maple body. I can remove the channel and play it on my lap as well.

Does it sound different, and if so in what way, when you take it out of the wood and play it on your lap?

Richard

Mark
That THANG has got the THANG. I instantly wanted one. That combination of metal and wood looks just right to me.

I got a bar from Dunlop labeled 920 Stainless Steel 7/8" Dia. x 2-7/8" Long, 7.5oz. The 2-7/8 is the length from the end to the start of the bullet curve. The bar from end to curved tip is 3.25". The Dunlop list of bars that Doug posted says the 920 s 7/8 x 3-1/4. So some of the label...

Hi Marc Thanks for posting the links to the YouTube London Concert - that is such great stuff for me to see. I was lucky to see Frisell, Jenny Schneinman and Leisz in concert at the Univ. Calif. Davis, Mondavi Center, April 4, where they performed a new Frisell project called the Disfarmer Project. ...

Re Hinson and Sliff's posts, 4/12/09, and possible dates for Fender 400 availability, I think 57-58 very likely. I bought a 400 fall of 1959 from Ethel Starr Studios in Fresno, CA. I hadn't been active with the studio for about a year or two, but my sense was these were newly available not long prio...

Hi fellows There is a picture of the thing on their online overview of the slide exhibition. Click on the link. On the page that comes up click on the large blue rectangle advert for the exhibit on the right of that page. Then on the next page you will be invited to enter click it. There will be a l...

Ambrose, thanks for the post. I missed the broadcast. I had just been posting a bit in a Non pedal, Magnatone thread about Ethel Starr of Starr Studios Fresno California back in the 1950s who owned a Bigsby. I need to get that book, so thanks.

Richard Terry