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Topic: Upright Lap Steel? |
Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 7:55 pm |
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| It physically does not seem to make any sense considering the way a slide and your fingers/hand works when playing a lap steel. How the heck would you play this as a standing steel and do slants or just about any other usual method of playing lap steel? |
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Mark Vinbury
From:
N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 8:07 pm
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The only other lap and pole combinations I've seen probably shouldn't be discussed here on the Forum.
Whew! That is a strange unit.
Looks like the string spacing is about 3/16". |
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James Harrison
From:
New Brockton, Alabama, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 8:21 pm
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Very unusual. Could that be a 10 string bass or played freted and using a bow?  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 8:41 pm
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WOW! I'd like to see the cats that play these. It must be some wild band..........Who would design something like this?  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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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 21 Jun 2007 9:23 pm
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| They're for aliens with multiple appendages. Or maybe conjoined twins. |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 2:56 am
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the freak show is in town.
oddities to delight and confound you.
where is the chicken pic? |
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Mark White
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 3:26 am
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| Maybe the pole is meant to be used as a stand when not in use, nothing else makes sense to me. |
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Miki Campins
From:
Sweden
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 4:49 am
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Maybe playing it cello-style? I don't see why, but maybe it's to be played like that...
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I'm thinking of getting a hat and a pair of boots... |
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Mark White
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 4:58 am
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| I'd sure play hell hittin' the right string with that string spacing! |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 5:52 am
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| The one with the five necks may have been built for a trained octopus |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 7:48 am
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| My back hurts just from looking at it! |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 9:13 am
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| Even with your chin hanging over the top of the first guitar body, I do not think a human arms could play the bottom guitar body. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Mark Vinbury
From:
N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 10:57 am
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Maybe when they can't get the action down on one of these rigs they just call it "lap steel" and send it out.
Guess it can be done.
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 11:39 am
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The player still has one lower neck to go!
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 12:11 pm
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| all they need are large tail fins and a ton of chrome. |
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Mark Vinbury
From:
N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 1:38 pm
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| And the gig bag sleeps five. |
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Craig Stenseth
From:
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2007 3:26 pm
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| Gary Lynch wrote: |
The player still has one lower neck to go!
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You beat me to posting a Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick) picture, he's had 2 or 3 different 5-neck Hamers over the years (usually plays it on stage for "Surrender"). I think the necks are: 12 string, fixed bridge, whammy bridge, fixed (tuned to open chord), and a fretless. |
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