Steel Player Survey

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 7 Oct 2009 2:42 pm

What would one title it when you sit down and play whatever comes to your mind. Be it pop, pop classical, country, western swing and about anything else that slips into your mind?

I find myself doing that more and more now days. I think I just follow the emotional mood that I am in or what I have been listening to on the radio or my mind wanders back to my earlier days. This morning I went from Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom Time to Pat Boone's "Sparrows of Capistrano" to Til I Waltz Again With You.

Would that be somewhere between Regge and ragged?

Duncan Hodge · Post by **Duncan Hodge** » 7 Oct 2009 4:33 pm

Very enjoyable survey, Jim. As I was filling it out I found myself looking forward to reading the results and implications of what it all means...after the numbers are properly crunched, that is.
Duncan

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 7 Oct 2009 5:08 pm

I took it too. Good luck with your survey.

Eddie D.Bollinger · Post by **Eddie D.Bollinger** » 7 Oct 2009 5:10 pm

Interesting stuff, Jim. I will be looking for these
results on the cable news channels.....

Ed

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 7 Oct 2009 7:17 pm

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 7 Oct 2009 9:38 pm

Bob Adams · Post by **Bob Adams** » 8 Oct 2009 3:57 am

done! good stuff, await the big picture! see you next weekend

Don Drummer · Post by **Don Drummer** » 8 Oct 2009 4:25 am

Boy that was easy. I enjoyed it. Don D.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 8 Oct 2009 8:11 am

according to Jim’s survey respondents age -- most of us are at the
top to behind the curve -- maybe we need to find a way to keep our
cohorts together as well --

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 8 Oct 2009 10:47 pm

bumpske

Pit Lenz · Post by **Pit Lenz** » 9 Oct 2009 5:05 am

Hey Jim,
could you point me to some Klezmer steel tunes?
Not too popular in Germany, but sounds interesting...

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Oct 2009 6:04 am

Pit Lenz wrote:Hey Jim,
could you point me to some Klezmer steel tunes?

Only in my mind. You'd better ask the guys who said they enjoy listening to Klezmer steel where they're finding it!?

Jody Cameron · Post by **Jody Cameron** » 9 Oct 2009 6:46 am

Thanks Jim! Very interesting info. I've often wondered about some of these things. jc

Dick Sexton · Post by **Dick Sexton** » 9 Oct 2009 6:50 am

Jim, great work...

I was wondering if the results might be a little different if each of us could advertise that the survey was going to be taken in about a month and to look for it.

Might get more responders and a larger rep of the community. Would be interesting to see if the resulting percentages would be close.

Again, great work. Showed me where I was in the big picture and where the majority of us are age wise.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Oct 2009 7:01 am

Thanks, Dick. We're now at 407 participants. Not too shabby!

Tamara James · Post by **Tamara James** » 9 Oct 2009 8:25 am

Mr. Cohen, this is a great thread. I enjoyed seeing the results. I am now wondering about the concentration of steel players per state. When I retire in 10 years, I would be very interested in moving to what ever mecca there is for steel players.
That would be as close as we can get to heaven here on earth.

Tammy J

Zach Keele · Post by **Zach Keele** » 9 Oct 2009 9:23 am

I'm the only one that filled out the survey that's between 16 and 25. I'm 24.

I guess I've got lots of work coming my way.

So, what popular music inspired all of these guys from 55-60 years old to start playing steel? What bands, type of musci, etc? I know the players that inspired them, but what actual songs, artists, bands? My dad would be in that range if he were still alive.

Ronnie Boettcher · Post by **Ronnie Boettcher** » 9 Oct 2009 10:55 am

Took your survey, Jim. Was a nice piece of work. I didn't know there was other types of music in this world besides Country, and Bluegrass. I refer to the other types as noise.

Miguel e Smith · Post by **Miguel e Smith** » 9 Oct 2009 10:56 am

Just completed the survey. Three of the questions were interestingly painful/revealing for me..."how long have you been playing" (Dang, I should be a whole lot better by now), "how much do you practice.." (ouch...maybe that's why I'm not a whole lot better) and "how old are you?" (yep...should be freakin' unbelieveable by now).

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Oct 2009 7:38 am

Yes, I use these surveys as a "feeder" for my lucrative psychological counseling services...

Stuart Devenish · Post by **Stuart Devenish** » 10 Oct 2009 9:52 pm

Do you know something we don't know about the mental wellbeing of the steel guitar community?

I shook the survey monkey's hand while I was there.

Stuart

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 Oct 2009 8:56 pm

Wow. We're now at 485 participants! Amazing. I'll probably close it down when we hit an even 500 and then do a new statistical summary for y'all. Maybe even prettier.

But I'm off to Ireland on Thursday for a week so I might just end up leaving it open till I get back.

Either way, thanks to everyone who participated (or yet will)!

Jimbeaux

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