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Topic: Instrument identification: dobro-shaped lap steel? |
Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 18 May 2011 9:51 am |
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Recently ran across this great song by Jimmy LaFave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDp1zS5ihd0
Can anybody identify what instrument that steeler is playing? It's shaped like a squareneck dobro, but doesn't have a resonator; seems to have two humbucking pickups on top; the sound isn't pure lap steel, though, I hear quite a bit of "acoustic" tone in there, too... Never seen anything like that. |
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Billy Gilbert
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 18 May 2011 10:28 pm dobro lap steel?
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It sounds like a dobro to me.   |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 19 May 2011 6:36 am
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| I don't recognize the make of the guitar but it looks like a square neck, solid body lap steel. |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 19 May 2011 6:56 am
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I don't recognize the make either but I would bet that the body is hollow. That thing has about the depth of some dobros and if it were a solid body then a Les Paul would be a lightweight by comparison!
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Mike D
From:
Phx, Az
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Posted 19 May 2011 4:15 pm
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What Mark said. I'd bet it's a 'semi-acoustic'. Probably a fairly solidly braced top, no soundholes, etc but still made to get a more acoustic flavor. The pickups look like TV Jones models to me but it's tough to tell.
Sounds real good but it needs a pickguard.  |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 19 May 2011 7:33 pm
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Whatever it is, the band sounds good!  |
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Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 19 May 2011 11:10 pm
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| Mike D wrote: |
What Mark said. I'd bet it's a 'semi-acoustic'. Probably a fairly solidly braced top, no soundholes, etc but still made to get a more acoustic flavor. The pickups look like TV Jones models to me but it's tough to tell.
Sounds real good but it needs a pickguard. |
Yup, the PUs do look like Filtertrons. Your description sounds about right, must be some custom model, because I can't think of any stock square-neck semi-acosutic guitar like that... |
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