The Steel Guitar Forum

I don't manage to play very much steel; I play a lot of instruments, so I fit it in where I can find an excuse. Collaborating on this song was the perfect excuse! I know it's not the most creative playing, and that my intonation is off in places, but I enjoyed it, and so did many of the watchers, th...

So, I'm entering several videos for the Bushman International Ukulele contest, in the hopes of winning a better uke, and this one has lap steel on it. It's an American Music Club cover, so the steel is kind of appropriate (Bruce Kaphan played wonderful pedal steel on a lot of their records). It's ca...

Sure, but I guess my question really was, which of the two amps I have to choose from will be better tone-wise. So far I've been using my acoustic amp, which is designed for completely flat response, ie not to shape the sound that comes into it at all unless you use the EQ. The sound I'm getting is ...

Just wanted to say a quick thankyou to everyone who contributed advice here. I got my strings, picks and steel, strung up the guitar, hooked up my volume pedal, and I'm starting to have some fun! As I anticipated, intonation is not proving a problem, but I'm having fun learning to dance around the 6...

I looked through the SD range, but couldn't see the metal ones. Probably me being incompetent! I tried fingerpicks for fingerstyle guitar when I was much, much younger, but we honestly didn't know which way round to put them on! I went for the Brozophonic bar, hope it's gonna be good!

Thanks guys. It turned out StringsDirect could've sold me everything I wanted (though I'd have had to settle for plastic fingerpicks), but my entire order, strings, picks and bar from Elderly, plus shipping, was about the same that SD would've charged me just for the tonebar. I guess it may take som...

I thought I'd found an online source (Resound), but it turns out they're in France, and though a UK contact is mentioned, it's evenings and weekends only. Shady? I want a sensible 6 string C6 set for an old cheap and nasty electric lap steel, a bullet steel, and some finger and thumbpicks. Who can s...

You might be amused to know I just read your signature as "Genre: indifferent instrumental guitar music"!

I'm with you on that! Interested in playing some hawaiian things for fun and barbeques, but no interest in Western Swing, and whilst I enjoy a subset of country, that's not what I'm into playing, so it's definitely about unusual applications for me! I do want to start at least with something like a ...

Thank you all! This has been extremely helpful, and I think I'm probably well set up to start playing once I get my strings, fingerpicks etc. One more question - I have a good acoustic guitar amp, and a Roland JC120 electric guitar amp. I presume I'd be better off with the JC120, and a volume pedal,...

Actually, after listening to some of the audio to go with that tab, it was all completely clear. There were a couple of symbols I didn't understand, but it became transparent with the listening. I've also found loads of learning resources, but I don't want to spend any of my decidedly limited cash o...

I bought an old, cheap and nasty lap steel (Columbus brand) 6 string electric probably 15 years ago now. To give you an idea how green I was, I tried playing it in standard tuning first - EADGBE, then I got smart, and tried open G and open D, but I never got beyond sounding like a bad blues slide pl...