Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes
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Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes
In one word?
My word would be angelic. Every now and then it makes tones that seem to me to be beyond this world. What one word would you use to describe that sound?
Rick
My word would be angelic. Every now and then it makes tones that seem to me to be beyond this world. What one word would you use to describe that sound?
Rick
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When I play it, it sounds like a couple of cats fighting.
A John Hughey ballad solo...the sound would be "celestial"
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A John Hughey ballad solo...the sound would be "celestial"
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...how angelic it sounds depends on whether you are listening to the playback immediately after the job....or afternoon the following day!
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Though I am a beginner with the steel, my wife has enlightened me about the sounds that are produced by the steel guitar,
“When you pick the strings too hard they give off a sharp non-pleasant, screeching howl; however, when they are picked softly and the bar slides are smooth, it has “a very sad” sound.”
Needless to say, I am concentrating on using my picks as picks and not hooked hammers and, running the bar as smooth and softly as possible. Hey, it does work.
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“When you pick the strings too hard they give off a sharp non-pleasant, screeching howl; however, when they are picked softly and the bar slides are smooth, it has “a very sad” sound.”
Needless to say, I am concentrating on using my picks as picks and not hooked hammers and, running the bar as smooth and softly as possible. Hey, it does work.
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Sorry to be a kill joy but someone had to say it, the steel does not make music it is the player. That is why we refer to it as an instrument. It is all about the person behind the instrument.
Case in point, the voice. By it's self it is just a muscle in your neck, air passes through it and you have a cough or a honk or a wheez. Add a little soul and you can have singing.
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Case in point, the voice. By it's self it is just a muscle in your neck, air passes through it and you have a cough or a honk or a wheez. Add a little soul and you can have singing.
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Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
WHAT PAUL SAID. minus the baby cryin
Terry
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Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
WHAT PAUL SAID. minus the baby cryin
Terry
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If Jerry Byrd or Buddy Emmons is playing it is like music from heaven. If I am playing it, it sounds plumb pitiful and excites my wife to say "if you dont stop that noise I am gonna throw that thing in the street."
Generally speaking of music and sounds of any instrument, It is like beauty, it's in the eye/ear of the beholder.
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kd...and the beat goes on...
Generally speaking of music and sounds of any instrument, It is like beauty, it's in the eye/ear of the beholder.
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kd...and the beat goes on...
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