The Steel Guitar Forum

Jim Grant wrote:how about open g on a lap steel. I am building a double lap and was thinking about trying open g????If so would gages be same as on a regular dobro

I've played non-pedal in "G" since the 60's. I've always used just a plain electric set of .12's. SIT's these days but I like Gibson's also. Ernie Ball's have an unwound third which I don't like but you may.
I may not have the most discerning ear but .12's always sounded good to me.

Roy Thomson wrote:...That was played on the instrument in the photo ...the brute.

You might call it the Brute but it has a very nice tone, not so harsh as a regular-shaped resonator guitar.
Surprisingly, I started building a resonator guitar with a rectangular body about five years ago, and due to the pressure of other jobs have never finished it. I've always called that instrument the "Black Brute."

Great minds think alike.

The tuning I use is (low to high) G D E G B D
A G6 variation. Mike Auldrige uses C6 with great success on a reso.
I like 6th tunings - more interesting to me than a G major. But I
don't play bluegrass either. (alergic to banjos)

I don't know if this still works but its me playing a dobro tuned to C6th.

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