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Winnie Winston
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Tawa, Wellington, NZ * R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Dec 2003 8:02 pm |
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Hi there forum!
Just to let you know that my website is finally done. There are some small details left (like better navigation aids) but it's up and has more about me than anyone will probably want to know.
The part that will be the most interesting for the folks here would be under the "Music" section. There's a run-though of my involvement with the steel and with building my own, a section on the Oak Book and the Manual of Style, and a section about the Kline Guitar which describes it in detail. I also discuss, along the way the Sho-Bud "rack and barrel" and the "fingertip" -- both illustrated.
For those who want more, there's a whole section about me an my history with playing banjo.
Under "Me an Music" is a link to my playing with a cajun band in NZ.
There are several mp3 links.
Hope you enjoy it.
http://julianwinston.com
JW |
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frank rogers
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Posted 31 Dec 2003 8:28 pm
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| Winnie your website is excellent, especially the Jimmy Day tribute section. I also enjoyed the backround info on your books. Thanks so much for your contributions to the advancement of the Steel Guitar. F.R. |
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John McGann
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Dec 2003 8:35 pm
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Great site!
I'd also like to say that the Manual of Style is one of the most important pieces of work in the entire history of published steel guitar music, both in the comprehesive presentation of the music with the Musmtab system, and the way attention is given to both C6 and E9 tunings as approached by four different masters. This is a reference book that I will return to again and again. |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 12:35 am
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Winnie,
Congratulations for a well designed and very impressive Website. I just took a quick look, but I will be back often, because exploring all the information will take some time!
Happy New Year from Austria!
Walter
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Chippy Wood
From:
Elgin, Scotland
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 1:40 am
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'Wasted' a couple of hours reading your web site when I should have been working, like a good book couldn't put it down.
Loved the Jimmy Day memorium.
Thanks. |
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Graham Griffith
From:
Tempe, N.S.W., Australia
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 3:00 am
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Winnie,
It's such a good site ... a few visits ahead for me. All the best.
Graham |
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Rick McDuffie
From:
Benson, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 6:18 am
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Winnie,
Great site, very well thought-out. I'm sure it will keep growing.
Thanks again for writing the book. I bought my first copy in 1980, and my second copy in 2002 : ) (Probably still have the first one up in the attic, but it was easier to just buy another than to find the original!).
You're a credit to the community![This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 01 January 2004 at 06:18 AM.] |
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Drew Howard
From:
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Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 7:43 am
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Boy, somebody sure put alot of work in on
this site! Terrific! |
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mickd
From:
london,england
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 8:30 am
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great site - loved the Jimmy Day stories - and what a fine bit of C6th playing on that clip  |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 9:57 am
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THANK YOU Winnie 
Happy New Year |
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 10:07 am
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Great website! It has the same easy & interesting read that your book had. Thanks for everything!
Rick S.
p.s. just a suggestion...I can barely make out the titles of your light blue over darker blue hyperlink pages. Maybe it's just my older monitor? Maybe it's just the morning after NYE?  |
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Lawrence Sullivan
From:
Granite City, Illinois, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 7:25 pm
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Mr. Winston thanks for posting access and having your web site. It's terrific for a beginer to be able to read some of the history and happenings of the steel guitar world.
Hopefully in the future you will add even more articles of this type to your web site.
It would also be great if some of the others
that played a role in making steel guitar what it is today would share their stories in some fashion with the rest of us .
Thanks again for creating this great site
Larry |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2004 8:10 pm
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| Great site, Winnie! |
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Travis Bernhardt
From:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 1:28 am
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Yes, kudos indeed. I found your tribute to Jimmy Day to be brave and moving. Also, I enjoyed the stories from the St. Louis convention (I enjoyed all the music related stuff, actually, and the design section is interesting too).
One personal question, though, if I may (perhaps it's answered somewhere on the site)... Why "Winnie?"
-Travis[This message was edited by Travis Bernhardt on 02 January 2004 at 01:36 AM.] |
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Winnie Winston
From:
Tawa, Wellington, NZ * R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 2:12 am
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Lawrence said:
"Hopefully in the future you will add even more articles of this type to your web site."
Yes. First, I'll let my web-designer finish off the navigation stuff and take a break. Then, when he's relaxed, I'll throw him some more stuff-- which I'll be able to think of by then!
And Travis asked: "Why 'Winnie'?"
My... I thought it was obvious. At the time I was born, WWII was just going, and Winston Churchill was fondly referred to as "Winnie". So THAT is #1. #2 was my parent's fondness for "Winnie the Pooh."
Some people think that my name is Winston Winston!
JW |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Chuck McGill
From:
An hour from Memphis and 2 from Nashville, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 4:31 am
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Winnie
Your Pedal Steel book got me started when
no one around me knew anything about the instrument. Thank you |
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Alvin Sydnor
From:
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 6:42 am
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Hi Winnie, long time no see. I hope you remember when you and I got together to discuss homeopathic medicine packaging requirements you had. We first met at George Sells house. Incidentally George still lives in the same area and we get together quite often and he sends his best wishes to you. When and if you are ever in this area give me a call.
Keep on pikin
Alvin |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 7:24 am
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| Thanks Winnie. I really enjoyed this. |
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RON PRESTON
From:
Dodson, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 8:05 am
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WOW, Winnie,
Very Cool. I stayed up last night for quite a while reading your website...There was a place where I read a statement you wrote saying that it would be real cool to have a SUPER picker tell you that YOU had made it possible for him/her to obtain the knowledge and skills to become the player that they are. All I can say, My Friend, is that I'm NOT a SUPER picker, But, I HAVE become a fairly decent player and have SOME knowledge from reading your book back in '75 on. When I first started, I took your book on the road with me, and when the band was partying their Butts off, I was in the Motel room READING, STUDYING, "Hearing" in my head, and all that. I still have the first book, which is underlined and marked like a Bible, and it WAS a Bible for me through those first years of "Cutting My Steel Teeth" as you put it. You also said that if you were to do things different, you would not have printed such hard Tab for the beginner.....Ha, I had and DID learn "Danny Boy" as my FIRST project. What a Kick in the Butt!!!  I have never regreted it to this day for tackleing that one. I still go back to that Old "Bible" from time to time to "Rehash" some things.
God Bless You, Winnie....
I really hope to meet you one day at one of the Steel Conventions.
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 7:38 pm
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| Simply amazing site. Thank you SIR. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 3 Jan 2004 12:09 pm
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Cool site Winnie. Lots of great stories.
I have to tell you, I was unable to access any of the links through the AOL browser. I had to go through Internet Explorer. I don't know why, but you might want to check this out and possibly change something. |
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Winnie Winston
From:
Tawa, Wellington, NZ * R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jan 2004 2:48 am
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To answer Mike....
What has to be cvhangedf is the AOL Web Browser. It is an old version of Netscape. There are a number of sirtes which don't open with it. My web-designer said that he used the simplest code designed for Internet Explorer.
That the site does not open on the AOL Browser is not a reflection of something wrong weith the site,rather it is the reflection of something wrong with the AOL browser.
JW |
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