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Topic: Carvin Pedal Steels ?? |
Kevin Raymer
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Chalybeate, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:17 pm |
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Was looking at an early 70es Carvin catalog.
I see the used to make pedal steels.
Never seen one here on the forum.
Anybody got one ??
Do you play it still ??
Just curious.
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Kevin Raymer
Zum / Knaggs / Breedlove
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:33 pm
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| my first steel guitar was a Carvin. It was like a Fender underneath (cables & pulleys). |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 12:33 pm
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I thought I'd read that they had an arrangement with Dekley, that Carvin guitars were Dekleys with different badges.
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Kevin Raymer
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Chalybeate, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 4:03 pm
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Yea, Earnest, the pictures in the catalog I was viewing showed cables in the undercarriage..
We're Deckleys that way ??
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Kevin Raymer
Zum / Knaggs / Breedlove
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 5:32 pm
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| I remember the Carvin catalog showing a pedal steel and the changers looked similar to the ones Chuck Wright was building at the time. Chuck built a D-10 for me in 1963 when he was living near Red Bluff, CA and the changers looked the same as Carvin. |
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David Higginbotham
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 5:44 pm
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| My first steel was a Carvin and exactly as Ernest described. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Apr 2016 5:39 am
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| I've only seen two Carvin pedal steels in my over 50 years of playing, and neither looked anything like a Deckley (or any other modern steel, for that matter). The changer was somewhat similar to the Wright, but they had thick wood and an aluminum wraparound frame like a Fender. Both were cable-operated, one had wide pedals, and one had narrow pedals. I didn't play either one. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Apr 2016 10:44 am
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
| I thought I'd read that they had an arrangement with Dekley, that Carvin guitars were Dekleys with different badges. |
I think you're confused, Lane. Carvin stopped selling steel guitars a decade or more before Dekley started.
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 28 Apr 2016 11:16 am
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Not the first time I've had thethe wrong people doing the right thing.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 28 Apr 2016 1:21 pm
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| If I remember correctly, Carvin sold the changers and pickups separately for those who wanted to build their own guitars. They were available in either 8 or 10 string configurations. I purchased 2 of their 10 string pickups around 1971, and still have one of them on a lap steel I built some time ago. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 28 Apr 2016 3:09 pm
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Cartwright Thompson
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