The Steel Guitar Forum

Hey Jim and Rich, take special care, and might I add baby don't scold me! uno mundo, and have a carefree country day! <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Larry Miller on 26 March 2002 at 03:57 AM.]</p></FONT>

Time has passed since I posed the question alluding to the first steel guitarist to tune his instrument to the E9th chromatic tuning. I do not recall reading information that states clearly who plucked, or strummed the unusual arrangement of notes on a first time trial basis. The answer is insufficient if it strays from the actual tuning, or includes more than one person.

Bill H.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Bill Hankey on 26 March 2002 at 07:27 AM.]</p></FONT>

249 to go

Bill, I vaguely remember the Big E saying he was but maybe I am wrong.....could have been Jerry Garcia.....

If this forum is a learning process, I would like to know which category of events, instilled or motivated the masters to become so ardently creative, when their concerted efforts terminated with the inception of the E9th chromatic tuning?

Bill H.

<SMALL> A momentaneous ventilation of diurnal prevalence </SMALL>

That happened to me once, and after serious reflection on the event I found the cause to be ordering two #15’s, and a #22 from Taco Cabana before the job. (I’ll never do that again..BURP!)

Turning my attention to the question of 3rd string breakage on my steel however, I have found the solution after studding the problem intently for over 30 years (NOT!!). I got a job doing Woodworking shows out on the road every weekend, which prevents me from playing steel in every Honky Tonk in south Texas. No playie, no brakie!! Pretty simple!

B. Bailey Brown
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by B Bailey Brown on 27 March 2002 at 11:22 AM.]</p></FONT>

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Lorraine Newman

<font size=1 color="blue">from spent strings to Neil Young to Jerry Garcia to taco distress to land sharks in a page and a half -- that must be some kind of record for topic drift -- if there ever was a topic to begin with</font>

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2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Emmons D-10 9x9, 1971 Dobro

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Larry Bell on 19 April 2002 at 06:20 AM.]</p></FONT>

landshark.

What should Doug do about his 3rd string?

This should fall into the catagory of the 13th floor. Since that's the doomed string, we should just skip 3 and rename it the 4th. 4th strings last longer so now it's 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Eleven string guitars have always had a mystique about them, and now we can still use the original changer. Now granted, from a numerological point of view, 10 is the sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, but the number 11 is a prime number so it does have a cachet, and we can now count how many strings we have on both hands, of course there are those people who have 11 toes.

If they made .11's a little thicker... maybe they would'nt break so often.

Steve, they call those .12's

I know Larry, I shoulda added Mr. Winky at the end of my post .

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Josephine

Having perused all the above enlightenments, I can certainly say that obfuscation of the geminal precept shall, in some transitory nature, only instigate further meanderings into the sinistrorsal vagueries that happenstance promulgates at this time of year. I have elected not to partake into these grandiloquent verbosities for fear of comminatory responses. If nothing else, this thread exemplifies the participants' improving abilities in orthography.

Need I say more?

No, you're said a lot Donny but I'll need a Bobbe Seymour Translation manual to figure out what it is you've said. At least I'm trying ! How many more do we have to go to set a new record ????

LMAO Regards, Paul

And they said that the SGF is nothing more than hate threads with no substance....

<font size=1>231 to go.</font><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Steve Feldman on 25 June 2002 at 10:43 AM.]</p></FONT>

Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Envy
Wrath
Pride
Lust

Shouldn't jealousy be in there too?

Paul,

I think Donny was trying to say:

Havin' perused all th' above inlightenments, ah can sartinly say thet obfuscashun of th' geminal precepp shall, in some transito'y nature, only instigate further mean'erin's into th' sinistro'sal vagueries thet happenstance promulgates at this hyar time of year. ah have elecked not t'partake into these gran'iloquent vahbosities fo' fear of comminato'y responses. Eff'n nothin' else, this hyar thread exemplifies th' participants' improvin' abilities in o'thography.

But I could be wrong .

Chas forgot:

Grumpy and
Sleepy

(ROTFLMAO)