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Topic: Old antique lap steel slide guitar? |
Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2005 9:09 pm |
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| You snooze you lose. I'm really surprised no one jumped on this one. Click Here |
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Brendan Dunn
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Posted 31 Oct 2005 11:13 pm
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| Is that the one that was originally owned by Pythagoras? |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 1:29 am
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| His father Mnesarchus found it at a flea market while searchin for ole Stringmaster parts. |
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Dan Peterson
From:
Gig Harbor, Washington, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 2:35 am
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Looks like 'trick or treat' to me! (I saw it first day it came on but didn't put it on 'watch'. The more I look at that photo I'm wonderin' if it isn't the box the real guitar came in ?? (an antique case maybe?)  )[This message was edited by Dan Peterson on 01 November 2005 at 03:04 AM.] |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 2:56 am
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| Slants on frets 1 and 2.3875 are really, really hard to get in tune. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 4:13 am
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I snoozed.
I lost.
I'm glad. |
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Bill Quinn
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 9:16 am
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| This thing was mentioned on another thread. It's probably not a steel guitar at all. It looks to me like a piece of equipment from a physics lab for doing experiments on string vibrations. It's probably from an old high school or college physics lab. |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 9:55 am
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Man, is this a P.T.Barnum "sucker born every minute" special or what?
Someone actually paid $11.01 for this?
Unbelievable.
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Mark
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 11:24 am
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| Upon closer examination it looks like the tuner buttons are NOT original and that it suffers from severe "cabinet drop"...(someone dropped a cabinet on it) and talk about "the moan" wait till the buyer sees it in person. |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Andy Barlo
From:
Schererville, Indiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 6:03 pm
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| I think this is the same lap steel that Don Fulmer played a tenor duet with Frank Brandenburg in Joliet. Though his had one string on it. |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 6:31 pm
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Wouldn't a slant be hard with one string! Restringing (or is it restring) would be pretty cheap. Ok, that's all the sick jokes I have for now.
Ron |
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Andy Barlo
From:
Schererville, Indiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 6:52 pm
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| Actually the forward is pretty easy. It's the reverse slant that's hard to get. |
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 1 Nov 2005 8:36 pm
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WOW! $11.01, Looks like it's worth every penny.
To get a moan out of this piece of wood, you'd have to hit someone on the head with it 
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 Nov 2005 1:27 pm
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| The most impressive thing about it is the superior craftsmanship. |
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Dan Peterson
From:
Gig Harbor, Washington, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Nov 2005 8:22 am
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| 'Reliable sources' (and my intense intuition) tell me that it was purchased by a Miami GCrep'r. You watch..It'll be 'ebay'd.. 'RARE VINTAGE COLLECTORS SALE' soon, for somewhere over $300 bucks! (with some photo enhancing and NO case of course) .. |
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