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Topic: Another Ebay doozie!! |
Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 5:18 pm |
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I have not posted one of these in a long time.
This is one of the best I have ever seen on Ebay!!!!!
Ebay # 120032441601 |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 6:50 pm
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I think it must have come out of the basement of the Munster's mansion.
Here is a link to the item.
Click Here
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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande
Mullen U-12, Excel 8-string Frypan, Evans FET-500, Fender Steel King
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 7:09 pm
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read it
at least you have to admit that the seller is honest...haha
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Mullen SD-10 3&5 / nashville 400
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 7:12 pm
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ROTFLMAO!  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 7:25 pm
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Calling that contraption a pedal steel guitar is like calling this thing an airplane...
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 7:38 pm
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I bet you guys would be embarrassed to find out this thing really works (or did at one time)  It probably had a heck of a feed back problem, thereby requiring the newspaper stuffing. I would love to hear it with new strings. I wonder if the floor was the stop as I could see no way to adjust the pulls. I find this to be Interesting to say the least. What kind of sound would it have? |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 9:33 pm
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| Makes a nice conversation piece for a resturaunt. Herman Munster Steel Guitars. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 15 Sep 2006 9:42 pm
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Come on guys... you know you want it. Place a bid on this pedal steel guitar. It has an awesome tone.
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My Site - Instruction |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 2:27 am
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I think it was orignally a Ricky that somebody messed with.
I bet it actually does sound pretty good. |
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Joe Buczek
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 7:26 am
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This may be a homemade piece for all I know.
Homemade? Ya think?!!! Whomever did these hacks was, IMO, pretty clever. Obviously horrible implementation.
LOL
--Joe Buczek |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 7:55 am
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| I think I saw that thing in the back of Mr. Haney's truck on an old episode of Green Acres. |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Keith Poteat
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 8:17 am
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| The bridge looks like it was carved out of rocks. Fred Flintstone maybe? |
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John Poston
From:
Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 8:39 am
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| A monument to the indefatigable human spirit. |
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Mike Randolph
From:
Cook Minnesota, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 8:42 am
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You could always use it for an anchor!!
Mike |
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Colm Chomicky
From:
Kansas, (Prairie Village)
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 10:32 am
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| I can't help but think of its former owner, perhaps lost to the ages, a soulful person with an innovative love of the steel guitar. Listen carefully for there is the lornful cry of this steel beckoning for someone with the sprit to give it life and make it sing again. |
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Curtis Alford
From:
BastropTexas, USA 78602
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 11:24 am
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This appears to of all welded construction,maybe painted with zinc oxide primer.
Could this truely be a "Steel Guitar"? |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 11:35 am
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If those nuts actually turned and followed the threads on that ready rod, I wonder how one would keep their bar on the strings.
Any guess on the weight of that gem?
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(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 11:44 am
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I wonder if this steel player's nightmare predates Alvino Rey's pedal version that was produced in 1939. Believe it or not, I went to look at an early version of a steel guitar that was totally unbelievable. It featured an unique stand that was remarkably adjustable, but the sheet metal contraption's only good feature was a horse shoe type magnetic pickup. I was so fascinated by the anachronistic, and unplayable molded steel, steel guitar, that I offered to purchase it. A friend tipped me off that the owners wife was going to place it on the curbing. I rushed down there only to be met with a new version of what she had planned to do with the wasted attempt to build a playable steel guitar. Perhaps it may be obtainable now, after 4 years have gone by since I visited her home.
[This message was edited by Bill Hankey on 16 September 2006 at 12:46 PM.] |
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Steven Black
From:
Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 11:53 am
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| I'll buy it!! I'll buy it!!, Hold that beer bottle opener for me. |
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Mike Ester
From:
New Braunfels, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 12:02 pm
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| Good Lord!! I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. |
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Bob Snelgrove
From:
san jose, ca
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 6:44 pm
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OMG
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Gary Dunn
From:
near Camel City, NC
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 6:57 pm
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| My, my, how the instrument has progressed since days of Leonardo. This must have been one of his early proto-types. I wonder if anyone has cracked its tone – I mean code. |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 16 Sep 2006 8:42 pm
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Here's a schematic of the changer...
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