How Many Newbie Pedal Steel Players?

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Started playing within the last:

1 yr
15
31%
2 yrs
15
31%
3 yrs
4
8%
4 yrs
6
13%
5 yrs
8
17%
 
Total votes: 48

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Jerry Overstreet
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How Many Newbie Pedal Steel Players?

Post by Jerry Overstreet »

David's pedal steel dying art thread got me to wondering how many players have taken up the instrument for the very first time in say, the last 5 years?

I suppose one wouldn't be considered a newbie after a couple years, but for this poll can we use 5 years or less?
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It's been almost exactly a year and a half for me. I don't think I'll ever be the same.
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Post by Thomas Ludwig »

also one and a half year at the pedals.
Bobby Austin
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How Long

Post by Bobby Austin »

About a month for me.
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Post by Ian Miller »

Fall 2009 over here.
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Post by Ed Brooks »

Year and a half for me too.
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Post by Jerry Overstreet »

bump for more votes, if you please.
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Post by Ray Minich »

6 string in 1963, pedals in late '80s. Still play like a newbie. One of these days I gotta get serious.
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Post by William Beverly »

Two and a half years here. I was J.B. Crabtree's first guitar teacher and his sister gave me his Dobro and a 40's Gibson Lap Steel when he died. Took me a couple years to tackle the one with all the levers and pedals. Wish I coulod have bout his Emmons. If the guy that bought it here a few years ago ever decides to sell it we would like to get it back 'in the family'.
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Post by Ulrich Sinn »

PSG: pretty much one year ago (MSA E9/B6)

played non-pedal & dobro for maybe three, four years before (but guitar forever).

I find pedal steel and non-pedal steel quite difficult (for various reasons string spacing, tuning).

These are actually three different instruments.

I feel the dobro is just starting to open up for me, and I start to grasp the similarities and differences between the instruments.
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Post by Steven Cummings »

Count me in. Less that a year for me.
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It ain't dead if I've got anything to do with it.
Hard to imagine something that can sound so special would ever go away. Just my opinion but I do not see that it will ever, ever die away.
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Started September 2008. Bought a1966 Marlen d10 that I still have but now play a G2. Been a blast the whole time.
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Post by Josh Yenne »

my 3 year anniversary of picking up my first steel was last thursday!

god I love this instrument!

Has been my lifes obsession since that day.. doing about 100 gigs a year on it now.... inspiring, and profitable.

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