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Topic: Bud Tutmarc |
Derrick Mau
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 11:04 am |
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Beautiful "feel" and single note playing by Bud Tutmarc.
Anyone know what kind of amp and steel he is using here in the video?
I guess the steel guitar mold has been broken. They just don't make steel guitar players like this anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-57IGcg8sjo |
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Ron Simpson
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 1:41 pm
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Aloha Derrick,
Whenever I've seen Bud, he was always playing an Audiovox steel guitar through whatever amp was at the convention that year. Bud's dad, Paul senior marketed the Audiovox line of instruments, and Bud assembled them in his younger days. Bud played them until his stroke.
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 1:55 pm
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| I really like the single string stuff Bud did. I bought a couple CDs from him the last time he made it to Winchester. |
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 1:56 pm
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Bud's one of my favorites. I've got a colored vinyl lp, from the 50's, I believe, of Bud playing lap with an organ player...
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 3:24 pm
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Aloha Ron,
Thanks for the info, but I was particularly interested in the one that Bud's using in the video.
Never seen anything like it.
Do you suppose it was something he made himself?
Anyone know?
Thanks,
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 4:35 pm
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Couldn't tell from the vid, but it's most likely one of his own production guitars, as Ron Simpson stated. The originals were fry-pan deversions, but later they were of a more unique design and are said to sound nice. Been trying to get an 8 stringer for years.
The amp, may be a Mighty Mite(?), an early portable. I've forgotten what I knew about them and a search finds way too much extraneous modern stuff to easily narrow it down. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 19 Oct 2009 10:42 pm
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Derrick asks,
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The steel guitar was one that was made by Bud himself and is an S-6. He always played a 6 string steel guitar. With his single string playing he did not need more strings. He used 3 string picks for his chords and hardly ever did strums. He modeled his playing after Sol Ho'opii.
The amplifier that he is using is a BOSS MA15.
I have the same 15 watt amp and it is an excellent little amplifier.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2009 3:00 am
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Thanks Don
Do you know what year your amp is? Can't seem to find much information on it. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 21 Oct 2009 7:49 am
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Aloha Derrick,
I do not know what year the amp was produced.
I tried to find out some information about the amp after I bought it from
a member of the AISGC in Winchester but ran into a dead end.
I believe that Boss was bought out by Roland sometime ago.
Aloha no,
Don |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 21 Oct 2009 8:35 am
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Bud built a line of lap steels called 'Serenader' around 1950. The Serenader was a clone of his father’s earlier Audiovox, except it had a light tan finish. I had a Serenader a few years ago, and it had a thin “blade pickup” and a U-shaped magnet inside the body… same design as the 1930’s Audiovox. Everything else about the guitar was early 1950s... the tuners, the knobs, the finish, the case, etc... but the electronics were ’30s style, very primitive for a guitar of that era. Bud later said in an interview that he felt it was important to continue this design because it was a big part of the original Audiovox sound. The Serenader I had, however, had weak and uneven output, and a slight hum.
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 21 Oct 2009 4:54 pm
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Just watched this clip, actually, and I really appreciate the way a lap sounds playing this type of hapa haole music in the right hands without a volume pedal. Sounds more authentic. It's also interesting (to me, anyway) to see Bud play this single-note style, while on a CD of his I have ("To You, Sweetheart"), he plays mostly intricate, two-string movements that are very thoughtful and slight with their changes.
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