Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 18 Nov 2004 7:43 am

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

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 18 Nov 2004 8:01 am

Wonderous! As long as I'm listening to someone else....
-andy-

Randy Reeves · Post by **Randy Reeves** » 18 Nov 2004 8:15 am

plaintive. ethereal.
clangy when I play, but Im getting better.

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 18 Nov 2004 8:17 am

The term "guitar-as-organ" has come to mind more than once.

Mark Metdker · Post by **Mark Metdker** » 18 Nov 2004 8:19 am

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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Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 18 Nov 2004 8:47 am

"BYRD"............ drop by the jerrybyrdfanclub.com web site and see for yourself.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 18 Nov 2004 9:55 am

...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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Steve Hitsman · Post by **Steve Hitsman** » 18 Nov 2004 2:14 pm

Whenever I happen to mention to someone that I play steel and they ask me what it is, I tell them that it's the instrument in country music that sounds like it's crying... they usually get it.

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 18 Nov 2004 2:27 pm

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.

Ronnie Long · Post by **Ronnie Long** » 18 Nov 2004 2:50 pm

I don't think I have heard this before, but my wife says it sounds like sex music to her. What do you think?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 18 Nov 2004 2:57 pm

I think you should keep playing.

Carlos Polidura · Post by **Carlos Polidura** » 18 Nov 2004 3:01 pm

i will let you know, just as soon as i find the word in my dictionary...
if i could find that particular word.

"HEAVENLY"??????

can someone describe it....please

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 18 Nov 2004 3:05 pm

well RICK, ain't no words to tell it. sitting here about drunk listening to Lloyd Green just makes me wantta scream more!!! can't git enought of that wonderful stuff!!!

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 18 Nov 2004 3:32 pm

Fandabidozi!
(courtesy of the Krankies)
p.s. You don't want to know.

Larry Harlan · Post by **Larry Harlan** » 18 Nov 2004 4:00 pm

Rick, the sound of the pedal steel is a sound, a music, that literally "itches" my inner soul.[This message was edited by Larry Harlan on 18 November 2004 at 04:00 PM.]

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 18 Nov 2004 9:41 pm

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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Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 19 Nov 2004 4:35 am

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.

Larry Behm

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 19 Nov 2004 4:52 am

Obviously Larry the guitar just kind of sits there until someone picks it. But beyond that can you describe the music that comes out of it when its played properly, in one word?

Rick

Terry Sneed · Post by **Terry Sneed** » 19 Nov 2004 9:03 am

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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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

WHAT PAUL SAID. minus the baby cryin

Terry

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Michael Dene · Post by **Michael Dene** » 19 Nov 2004 5:47 pm

It's what you hear when sound thinks it's a watch in a Dali painting.....

Absolutely magic.

Michael

Jennings Ward · Post by **Jennings Ward** » 19 Nov 2004 6:21 pm

GOD-SENT.

JENNINGS

WE PLAY STEEL FOR THE BEAUTIFULL ANGELIC SOUND.....

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Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 19 Nov 2004 9:58 pm

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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c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 20 Nov 2004 4:23 am

Bud Tutmarc does gospel and Haw music. When asked why this combination, Bud says they both sound heavenly. CC

Post by **b0b** » 20 Nov 2004 3:16 pm

Moved to the "Steel Players" section, which is for topics about "Steel Guitarists and their Music"