Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes
Moderator: Shoshanah Marohn
-
- Posts: 688
- Joined: 10 Feb 2004 1:01 am
-
- Posts: 127
- Joined: 12 Apr 2001 12:01 am
- Location: West Branch, IA
-
- Posts: 375
- Joined: 11 Jun 2002 12:01 am
- Location: Pisgah, Alabama, USA
- Al Marcus
- Posts: 9440
- Joined: 12 May 1999 12:01 am
- Location: Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
- Contact:
I can't think of another one word but "BEAUTIFUL" in every way.....al
------------------
My Website..... www.cmedic.net/~almarcus/
------------------
My Website..... www.cmedic.net/~almarcus/
- Dave Van Allen
- Posts: 6157
- Joined: 4 Aug 1998 11:00 pm
- Location: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 397
- Joined: 7 Mar 2003 1:01 am
- Location: Springfield, Missouri, USA
-
- Posts: 1561
- Joined: 4 Aug 1998 11:00 pm
- Location: Edmonton Alberta
:No, because there are many voices that can be achieved.
As stated above the steel guitar is closest instrument to the sound of a pipe organ - originally my favorite sound. The steel itself can sound like many things. When you hear the classic high register bar-wavering tones it sounds like the neigh of a horse, perhaps it's reason for association with country music. In can sound like crying, a woman, and in the case of one tune I have on CD, a bag of kittens (lol). It seems one must be born with the ability to appreciate the sound of a steel.
As stated above the steel guitar is closest instrument to the sound of a pipe organ - originally my favorite sound. The steel itself can sound like many things. When you hear the classic high register bar-wavering tones it sounds like the neigh of a horse, perhaps it's reason for association with country music. In can sound like crying, a woman, and in the case of one tune I have on CD, a bag of kittens (lol). It seems one must be born with the ability to appreciate the sound of a steel.
- Bill Llewellyn
- Posts: 1921
- Joined: 6 Jul 1999 12:01 am
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Contact:
When I play it? "Atonal."
------------------
<font size=1>Bill, steelin' since '99 | Steel page | My music | Steelers' birthdays | Over 50?</font>
------------------
<font size=1>Bill, steelin' since '99 | Steel page | My music | Steelers' birthdays | Over 50?</font>
- Roger Edgington
- Posts: 2104
- Joined: 29 Mar 2000 1:01 am
- Location: San Antonio, Texas USA
- Contact:
It's hard to describe because it can take on so many different sounds depending on type of music being played. It can be anything from the whinny thing on hillbilly records,or beautiful smooth sounds,or driving guitar like sounds,or rich monster chords all with the ability to bend or alter notes if desired .I love it all from the silky smooth to the real punchy sounds. I am amazed at how much refinement and change the pedal steel is still going through.Some worry about the future of the pedal steel but I like to think it is still arriving and carving out a new sound.
- Roger Edgington
- Posts: 2104
- Joined: 29 Mar 2000 1:01 am
- Location: San Antonio, Texas USA
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 1561
- Joined: 4 Aug 1998 11:00 pm
- Location: Edmonton Alberta
-
- Posts: 1805
- Joined: 13 May 2001 12:01 am
- Location: Tyler, Texas
- Contact:
- Donna Dodd
- Posts: 6791
- Joined: 29 Jul 2003 12:01 am
- Location: Acworth, Georgia, USA
- Contact:
- Les Anderson
- Posts: 1683
- Joined: 19 Oct 2004 12:01 am
- Location: The Great White North
My wife just gave me the perfect scenario for the sounds of a steel guitar. "It has a multiple personality like a woman suffering with PMS -It can go from angelic to melancholy, then to screeching all in few seconds- ”.
What a nice little babe I married! Her appreciation for music is rather questionable to say the least.
------------------
(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
What a nice little babe I married! Her appreciation for music is rather questionable to say the least.
------------------
(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
- Donna Dodd
- Posts: 6791
- Joined: 29 Jul 2003 12:01 am
- Location: Acworth, Georgia, USA
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 198
- Joined: 10 Jan 2002 1:01 am
- Location: Fayetteville, NC, USA
- T. C. Furlong
- Posts: 1195
- Joined: 24 Oct 2002 12:01 am
- Location: Lake County, Illinois, USA
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 175
- Joined: 8 Apr 2003 12:01 am
- Location: Duncan, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
- Contact:
I'm enjoying this thread - but the most interesting descriptions are from those who don't play - us players are too biased!!
T.C. Furlong post alludes to something that I've always thought - The Pedal Steel Guitar is the equivalent to the string section, so common in popular music. Listen to Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" with the Nelson Riddle orchestra, the strings add texture, melody, chords, harmony etc. Just like the PSG does. But with the PSG you can do it all on one instrument!!
------------------
T.C. Furlong post alludes to something that I've always thought - The Pedal Steel Guitar is the equivalent to the string section, so common in popular music. Listen to Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" with the Nelson Riddle orchestra, the strings add texture, melody, chords, harmony etc. Just like the PSG does. But with the PSG you can do it all on one instrument!!
------------------