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Topic: Photos from the Slide Guitar Exhibit |
Blake Wilson
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Boulder CO, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 1:44 pm |
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Here are some snaps from the History of Slide Guitar exhibit at NAMM's Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA. I got to visit with my Dad over Thanksgiving. The show is amazing and I highly recommended attending and supporting it.
Regards,
Blake
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:22 pm
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:24 pm
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| Good golly. I think I have a boner. |
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Dean Gray
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:29 pm
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:30 pm
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Amazing collection. I wonder who Elsie Jaggers is; anybody know?
In the exhibit, do they ever refer to them as "steel guitars" or only as "slide guitars"? I prefer to make a distinction between those two.
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:44 pm 'Slide' guitar, my ass!
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Elsie Jaggers was a student of Sol Ho'opii, and could emulate his style quite well. But she also had a more mellow Hawaiian style that is to die for. I have some tapes of her playing live/studio that show her to be one of the unknown greats of steel guitar. She was a devout Christian and did a lot of gospel songs in her repetior, as well as singing, which she was not so great at.
Her beautiful custom made koa single 8 console was for sale on Ebay last year and went unsold(!).
She passed away about 10 years ago. |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 4:36 pm
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How many guitars do you think were on display?
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Julian Goldwhite
From:
Alhambra, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 4:42 pm
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I've been meaning to make the trip down to see this exhibition and after seeing your pictures I am am definitely making plans! Would be cool to make the remaining concerts too!
Best,
Julian |
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Ben Sims
From:
New Mexico
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 9:01 pm
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| I was planning on going to that exhibit over Christmas, though I'm not sure I could stand to go just to see all those instruments locked away behind the glass! Is there any interactive element to the exhibit? |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 9:26 pm
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Elsie attended the HSGA convention in Waikiki about a year or so prior to her passing. She was in a wheelchair and did not participate as a performer.
I was privilaged to meet her at the time.
Ron probably has the same tapes of Elsie which I have. (Available at the time through Bud Tutmarc...perhaps they might be still be available by contacting Doug or Greg Tutmarc in Seattle ? )
Her style, and that of the great Sol Ho'opi'i were almost identical...she was a marvelous musician ! |
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Rich Hlaves
From:
Wildomar, California, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 11:31 pm
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Ben,
There is an Archer Electro Hawaiian Jr import in the petting zoo for all to play. All the rest is look don't touch. There are also video and audio clips through out. I see from pic 3 a Stringmaster was added to the display...........finally. It wasn't there when I went through. It is well worth the trip if you are any where close. I'd drive 2-3 hours one way no problem. Lots of history on display. There are other things of interest on display as well. The steels are just icing on the cake.
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 11:38 pm
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Great looking collection. The sad part is that they will likely never be played much again, which I suppose is true of most collections.
So, why is the term "slide guitar" used?? Wondered about that. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 12:23 am
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After March 31st, I'll be playing mine (various--not professionally, of course) and I expect Greg Leisz will play his few (although they're not his frontline studio and touring axes). I only met Vancouver journalist/collector Alex Varty at the opening so I can't speak for him. The ones from Jim Palenscar and Eddie Montana might well be available for retail sale again at their respective stores after the exhibit closes. Ron Middlebrook's instruments have been part of his publishing legacy of instruction and instrumental history--and Ron's done his time as a pro steeler.
Jonathan Kellerman religiously and resolutely rotates among his 140 instruments and will add his loan guitars back to his practice and playing routine come Spring. (Side note: if you haven't seen it, check out his new coffee table book, "With Strings Attached" a luxuriously photographed and annotated tour of his astounding collection. (Not a psychological mystery bestseller this time out.) Better yet, buy the book from the Museum of Making Music gift shop. That's where I did my Christmas shopping this year. Members get 10% off which just about neutralizes sales tax, but it's for a good cause and admittedly it's not the cheapest price out there. List is $75 and worth it.)
"Slide guitar" was used to encompass all manner of related instruments that are included: bottleneck, Asian and ancient Indian. This all didn't start with Shot & Buddy, John & Rudy, Adolph & George, Chris & Hermann or Orville & Leo--or even in the 20th Century. Maybe not the 19th, either.
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Rickey Mitchell
From:
Fresno the center of California
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 4:59 am
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Simply Amazing. I'm heading down there in March to see Freddie Roulette.
Good Shots.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Blake Wilson
From:
Boulder CO, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 6:48 am
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What Ben said re: the title of the exhibition...it's about stringed instruments that are played by sliding as opposed to fretting (or both). If it were just steel guitar, they would be leaving out Bonnie Raitt, Robert Johnson, et al, who are name brands and certainly attract folks to this sort of thing.
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Blake Wilson
From:
Boulder CO, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 6:56 am
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Andy, good work on the video. My Dad and watched the whole thing. He is a big early country/western swing fan and was there when the records were new and got a kick out of it.
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 10:46 am
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John Subik
From:
Sun City, California, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 7:44 am
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Just wanted to add a ditto on the Jonathan Kellerman book. Great photos with his descriptions and stories for each instrument.
I plan on getting to the exhibit sometime over the holidays, these photos were the kick I needed. |
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Duane Solley
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 7:54 pm Slide guitar exhibit
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| I noticed a ten-string Gibson guitar beside the Alkire ten string. I assume it is of approximately the same vintage. Does anyone know who played one and what tuning they used on it? I was always under the impression the Eddie Alkire was the first person to develop a ten-string non-pedal. Evidently I am wrong. |
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 5:11 pm Eddie Martin's 3-necked consule
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| In the fifth picture down, up on the wall is a picture of Eddie Martin with the three necked consule guitar he built himself. I remember seeing Eddie playing this with the Red Murrel band in Los Angeles during the fourties. I don't know whether he built the individual guitars or not, or if they were possibly Rickenbackers that he built the consule around. There are some old short films of Eddie playing this with Merle Travis and Jimmy Wakely, |
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 5:27 pm Address
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What is the address or phone number of the Museum ?.
I have a one of a kind three necked steel guitar I used from 1945 through 1960 which might qualify for the exhibits. This was the guitar I used when recording Frank Sinatra's first country record (Sunflower) in 1948. |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Dec 2008 6:21 pm
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Billy, here's the contact info from their website:
Address:
5790 Armada Drive
Carlsbad, California 92008
United States
Telephone:(760) 438-5996
Fax:(760) 438-8964
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 8:02 pm
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I drove down there with Colin Alder and had a ball checking out all the great stuff not to mention David Lindley and Sonny Landreth who are without peer at what they do.
Here's Colin with one of his CruzTones on display. Good lookin son of a gun - ain't he?
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