The Steel Guitar Forum

Probably in this order:
Electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
Dobro
Mandolin
Fiddle
Harmonica
Button accordions, incl. Cajun
Pedal Steel
Piano

Guitar(s) would head my list followed by bass. Then comes mandolin, 5 string banjer and fiddle. Sadly, PSG brings up the rear since I'm a rookie at it....(But I DO spend the most "quality time" with my steel... )

Dennis

It's a toss up between mandolin and bass, electric and acoustic.
I likely play electric bass best comparatively,
and I work most on it.
but mandolin is in a different than typical style a lot of the time.
Guitar is in there somewheres too. But some drums and percussion, harmonica.
I have recorded on irish whistles, occarina, flute and sax back when,
and oddities like, spoons, carrilion and chimes.

In order:

Guitar
PSG (Universal)
Non-pedal steel
Tenor Banjo
Plectrum Banjo

I mess around with Irish Bouzouki, mandolin, and electric bass. I love all fretted string instruments. but find that too much "messin around" takes away from my time on guitar and steel.

Can't do everything with only 24 hour days!

I play Steel and Telecaster in a Countryband
I play also 3 pieces with the mandolin

I play best: Guitar
then el bass
then steel
then mandolin

Greetings from Switzerland

These are the ones I have been paid to play.

Guitars (ac. & elec.)
steel (Dobro, lap & pedal)
English concertina
Northumbrian Pipes
mandolin family
button box (Cajun, Tex-mex)

These ones - paid not to play!
old timey banjo
ukeleles.

Tony.

Bass, guitar, and 5 string banjo. Russ edited to add 5

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b0b... I used to be a real virtue-Oh So on the Banjer and the Git-tar !!
Highly intelligent with my pickin !

21% are bass players. I guess there's hope for me to really learn to play

I am one of the 21% that checked off as a bass player (40 years)
I do also double on rythem and I did in the past a few years ago played double tenor steel pan drums (Carribean sounds).
That was fun. I do have the PSG but play it less than the others.

I started out on drums back in 1969, did that for a couple of years, then I started playing bass and worked in a couple of screaming rock bands. However, my Mom and Dad's buck owens records finally took over and I bought a tele and spent ten years learning don rich and roy nichols licks. I picked up the steel in 1983 and eventually got the odd gig. Then in 1986 I got a real good gig playing steel and I havn't looked back since. I get hired mostly as a steel player, but I quite often get hired because I play guitar too. I also play a little 5 string and dobro as well as lead and harmony vocals. Steel is my first instrument hands down!

Emmons D-10 Nashville 1000/400 American standard tele and fender twin with boss pedals Lexicon mx 200

Guitar & Trombone

Bob,

I play various instruments depending with whom I gig:

guitar, mandolin, tenor sax, pedal steel and lap steel.

Groetnis!

steel
dobro
guitar

Every once in awhile, I might play keyboards by ear with one hand, but the steel guitar is my main instrument. I don't play keyboards a lot now, though.

Brett

Made my living for 50 years playing steel but played fiddle/violin best.

I play several instruments...... all equally bad.

Electric Spoons..

Started out on trumpet at 7, in the school orchestra. Then added french horn, and self taught guitar. Gibson J45, and had a 58 fender strat (in mint condition) walk out of my house. Since 1963, it was 5-string bluegrass banjo(sorry b0b). Then in 66, added my D-28. Got a used fender 400, till I figured it out that it helps to have knee levers. Added my LDG in 77, and a electric bass. Also have a fiddle, and what I play on that is screeches. Can't seem to get the hang of it. Still have all but the fender 400. Used it to help buy my LDG. Oh, and for some information, Martin said they no longer guarentee their guitars if it's over 40 years old. I had to pay for a repair of a bridge.

BASS

Guitar, Resophonic lap, lapsteel, Pedal Steel, Bass, Uke, harp, Mandolin, Spoons ,

All badly however

Bass here for lots'o years. 6 string guitar as well...only 3.5 years on pedal steel. I'm hoping (and practicing) to be halfway decent on pedal steel prior to pushing up daisies...if not, I'll have a wonderful time trying.

5 string banjo, blues harp, resophonic guitar, mandolin, guitar, bass.

Note to banjo detractors: Remember, one of the most widely studied books on pedal steel instruction was written by two award winning banjo players (Winnie Winston and Bill Keith).

Bass, 6 string guitar