HUDSONATOR Pedal Reso times three!

[Steven Hicken Jr.]

Hudson Acousto-Blaster

[Ricky Davis]

if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

Steven; those blank looks are folks with Lack of knowledge and it's our duty to help them with proper knowledge of the instrument they are looking at.
Ricky

[Ron Hogan]

I'll come visit Johnnie

[Johnie King]

Sounds good Ron bring your picks an stay a while for sure!

[Johnie King]

Double post

[Johnie King]

Sounds good Ron bring your picks an stay a while for sure!

[Steven Hicken Jr.]

if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

Steven; those blank looks are folks with Lack of knowledge and it's our duty to help them with proper knowledge of the instrument they are looking at.
Ricky

True story.

I'm calling mine a Resonator Pedal Steel or Pedabro from now on.

[Jimmie Hudson]

if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

Steven; those blank looks are folks with Lack of knowledge and it's our duty to help them with proper knowledge of the instrument they are looking at.
Ricky

True story.

I'm calling mine a Resonator Pedal Steel or Pedabro from now on.

Hudsonator is what they were named when I first started building them.

[Steven Hicken Jr.]

if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

Steven; those blank looks are folks with Lack of knowledge and it's our duty to help them with proper knowledge of the instrument they are looking at.
Ricky

True story.

I'm calling mine a Resonator Pedal Steel or Pedabro from now on.

Hudsonator is what they were named when I first started building them.

I'm thinking of using that one too. I'll probably use that name and if anyone asks me to elaborate I'll then go on to say Resonator Pedal Steel

Regardless of naming, I'm loving mine so far. I've said this before but Jimmie has made a small dream of mine come true. I've wanted a Pedabro since I was 16 but even then they had collectors item prices. Now I finally have something very similar. The tone is great, it's loud and anybody with prior pedal steel knowledge can jump straight on it without having to learn a new instrument. I'm stylistically playing mine more as a Pedaled instrument rather than a reso that can change tuning. But you can of course do both. It's really cool.

[Joe Breeden]

In my earlier days I remember radios were called by the manufactures name. Zenith or Philco, etc. What I remember hearing most, at those times; "Quiet, turn it on and get some music"

[Kevin Quick]

What tuning is on the 10 stringers?

[Johnie King]

Kevin Emmons ABC pedals.
Emmons Knees on left
RKL raises one An two
RKR lower 2 an 9
These dobros tuning can be changed like modern steel.

[Jimmie Hudson]

Kevin Emmons ABC pedals.
Emmons Knees on left
RKL raises one An two
RKR lower 2 an 9
These dobros tuning can be changed like modern steel.

RKL Raises 1 & 7

[Kevin Quick]

E9 or D9?

[Jimmie Hudson]

E9 or D9?

D9th

[Kevin Quick]

Ok so E9 will not work on these?

[Jimmie Hudson]

Ok so E9 will not work on these?

If you play E9 you can play D9 also it is just 2 frets lower than E 9th.
And I have tuned one to E9th also and it will work but it will break the cone in a years time of playing at a normal rate of playing time.

[Kevin Quick]

Ok thanks

[James Winger]

Hasn't Dobro become a common short hand slang term for all square neck resonator guitars?

I get your point about branding and I certainly wouldn't want someone calling a Sho-Bud an Emmons but where I'm from, if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

that's kind of the point and it's what brands actively fight and police -- what's called generification = becoming generic

so it can happen that after getting name recognition, doing marketing materials, etc the owner of the trademark (It's gibson at this time, yes?) will come down on it
(unlike, say, a patent, trademark is enforced through use in the market)

Escalator, Aspirin, ping pong were all brand names (Heroin was too, but there were other problems there)that were lost

Xerox, Velcro, and Band-aid are examples where the company actively fight that

or you ever notice that the jingle is specifically "I am stuck on Band-Aid BRAND 'cause..."


There used to be that old poster about You can't make of a xerox of a xerox on a xerox
(the poster drove home the generic term is photocopy -- man I'm looking for a print of that)
a little less a thing these days

Nintendo went through something similar in the late 80s/90s

[Tom Keller]

Hudson Pedalnator

[Jerry Erickson]

Broped ?:)

[Jimmie Hudson]

Hudson Pedalnator

Hudsonator is the name I call them.

[Jimmie Hudson]

Hasn't Dobro become a common short hand slang term for all square neck resonator guitars?

I get your point about branding and I certainly wouldn't want someone calling a Sho-Bud an Emmons but where I'm from, if I called my Hudson a "Pedabro" or "Resonator Pedal Steel" I'd be getting a lot of blank looks...

that's kind of the point and it's what brands actively fight and police -- what's called generification = becoming generic

so it can happen that after getting name recognition, doing marketing materials, etc the owner of the trademark (It's gibson at this time, yes?) will come down on it
(unlike, say, a patent, trademark is enforced through use in the market)

Escalator, Aspirin, ping pong were all brand names (Heroin was too, but there were other problems there)that were lost

Xerox, Velcro, and Band-aid are examples where the company actively fight that

or you ever notice that the jingle is specifically "I am stuck on Band-Aid BRAND 'cause..."


There used to be that old poster about You can't make of a xerox of a xerox on a xerox
(the poster drove home the generic term is photocopy -- man I'm looking for a print of that)
a little less a thing these days

Nintendo went through something similar in the late 80s/90s

The guitar is the Hudsonator guitar

[Jeffery Mercer]

“It’s a Dobro...that went to College” that’s what it is...

[Jimmie Hudson]

The two ten string models can be seen and played at Johnie Kings in Nashville TN.
He will be happy to sell you one of them too.