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Posted: **4 Oct 2009 4:00 am**

Forty years but the newbies can show me a lot.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 5:38 am**

It was April 1979 when I got my first steel guitar. I was 19 years of age and now pushing 50. Been a good 30 years of enjoyment foe me.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 5:56 am**

I've been playing the lap steel for a little over a year. I'm 49 and have a long way to go. I hope to get a pedal steel in about two years after I've graduated from Lap Steel Kindergarten.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 6:51 am**

Long enough to be really good. Too bad I ain't!!

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 8:47 am**

Started the quest in 1980.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 8:58 am**

Started learning to play in 1981 took a two year break from 1993-1995 so that makes 26 and counting.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 9:45 am**

Too long, according to my friends

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 10:26 am**

Started in 1963. I should be much better than I am by now.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 12:16 pm**

A lot longer than my playing sounds like. Guess I should have spent the lessons money on lessons.

Posted: **4 Oct 2009 12:52 pm**

I started playin' steel when I was eighteen, and it was on Christmas Day in 1999. Been playin' for nine years, so on December 25th, 2009, it'll be ten years! I'm twenty-eight now and I still love to play pedal steel!

Brett

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 6:26 am**

Since 1990. So I'm still a relative beginner.

Hello Peter Nylund. Looking forward to meeting and hearing you at the Irish Pedal Steel Festival.

Paul.

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 7:11 am**

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 12:14 pm**

I started pedal steel guitar on the 18th of March, 1976 and didn't quit until 2000 ... took a nine year layoff from steel and have been back at it for about four weeks now.

So, 1976 through 2009 is 33 years minus 9 years nothing = 24 years of playing.

Feels like I've been playing longer than that ... or, is it just being over the 50 mark that makes it seem that way?

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 2:14 pm**

55 years and only just starting to play the thing "In Tune" (I think?)

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 2:30 pm**

Pedal Steel 32 years, 6 string guitar 46 years ! Dobro about 25 years !

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 4:34 pm**

What time is it?
rimshot please

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 4:45 pm**

Well, is that a rimshot on the rim and snare head with a stick or just a stick on the rim alone ?

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 4:46 pm**

On Nov 26 2009 it will be four years.

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 4:54 pm**

Basil, whatever makes the loudest noise! ba rump ump

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 4:59 pm**

Bo, 'snot funny here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8gGaZQfnk Ping Shot or Gock shot and "pock or ging" BELIEVE ME that's the terminology FWIW which isn't much.

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 5:07 pm**

Basil, now that is funny ! ba rump bump

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 5:17 pm**

I wonder, maybe I need to start using a drum stick to hit the strings instead of using picks.

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 5:31 pm**

basilh wrote:Bo, 'snot funny here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8gGaZQfnk Ping Shot or Gock shot and "pock or ging" BELIEVE ME that's the terminology FWIW which isn't much.

..and I thought it was just whacking a drum with a stick.

You mean a drum is a real instrument ?

Posted: **5 Oct 2009 5:41 pm**

I thought them drums were like banjos.

Posted: **6 Oct 2009 4:45 am**

All Day and Boy am I tired

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