What's Your Main Pedal Steel?

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What brand of pedal steel do you play most often?

Poll ended at 3 Mar 2007 10:17 am

BMI
3
1%
Carter
38
11%
Desert Rose
3
1%
Emmons (push-pull)
37
11%
Emmons (all-pull)
18
5%
Fender
5
1%
Fessenden
13
4%
Franklin
4
1%
GFI
15
4%
MSA (vintage)
12
4%
MSA (modern)
14
4%
Mullen
21
6%
Rains
10
3%
Sho-Bud
43
13%
Sierra
14
4%
Williams
10
3%
ZumSteel
34
10%
Excel
1
0%
Other (specify in reply)
38
11%
ZB Custom
3
1%
 
Total votes: 336
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b0b
Adds up to 34, but I only see 33 votes. I blame Jack Francis.
I'll take that as a compliment!! :roll:
DESERT ROSE D-10 8/5...Joe Naylor "SteelSeat"...
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Eric Corgey
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Mullen SD 10
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John Maggard
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Hmm...I also missed the poll somehow. Domland Stereo D-10. Also have a very clean Dekley S-10 3+1 student model that needs a new home soon and hasn't been out of the box in a couple of years.
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Ken Metcalf
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Carson Wells
Nice horn, Nice guy AND it's all here
in The Heart of Texas.

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MSA 12 String E9th/B6th Universal
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Jimmy Duvall
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Iv'e played the Sho-Bud pro ll since '76 . Al Brisco did a great job making some updates in '96 . The pickups are from the "Pope of pickups" Bill Lawrence. Some other guitars I have are easier to play but my band loves the clasic sounds of the Sho-Bud . For recording and live pickin', I feel more expressive on the Sho-Bud than the easier to play 'modern' pedal steels . I'll be over playin' at the moose Club Friday !: :oops:
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Sho - Bud Pro ll D10, EMCI D10, SGI D10, Now playing the Sierra S -12 Blue Dumplin' ! Harmony lap steel w/wireless - to get off stage and still mess with the band .
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Emmons D12, and D10 PP,s...74-75
ARTIST RELATIONS: MSA GUITARS
2017 MSA LEGEND XL D10, S10, Studio Pro S12 EXE9
Mullen G2, Rittenberry S10, Infinity D10, Zumsteel 8+9
Anderson, Buscarino, Fender, Roman Guitars, Sarno Octal, Revelation Preamps, BJS BARS, Lots of Blackface Fenders!
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What's your main steel

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I,play Emmons Stereo Steel,3&4 ,sd10,with pad ,designed like an Emmons Fatback,Emmons skh,fret board,changer ,machined polished neck,pedalboard,pedals&pedalrods,All Sho-Bud under -carriage(bellcranks),pull system,crosshafts etc.Black gloss mica,Emmonslegs&not sure of end plates,It has has a decal that,I,& others have seen before.Well-made in a shop according to Bob Knight of Bowling Green Ky.Have owned many brands including A s10,Sho-Bud(Baldwin)that had a solid copper -neck,Gibson s8,4pdl,Emmons sio,3&2,zb,d10 8&2(I,gigged it 30yrs)& Carter d10,8&5(great steel).This Emmons Stereo has a great tone&cabinet drop is excellent.
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Rains!
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Max W. Thompson
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Blanton
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Nick Reed
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Here it is!


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Frank Carter
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EMCI-D10
Infinity [self built]
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William Fraser
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Sho-Bud 73 Pro-II
Billy Lee ,Pro-II,, Session 400,Session 500 , Supro , National, SpeedDemons,& too many Archtops & Stratotones.Lots of vintage parts for Kay ! etc.
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Steve Reynolds
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LaGarritt
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Bill R. Baker
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other

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Rittenberry
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Bill McKenna
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72 Emmons Push Pull D10
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Larry Farrell
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MSA Millenium Bb 6th
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Jim Meiring
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ZUM D10 with 8/8.
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Robert Jones
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Mullen Royal Precision D10 Red Lacquer Pearl inlay 8&8
"Life is too short for bad tone."
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Lem Smith
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Wow, more Sho~Bud's than anything else! I'm kind of surprised. I really figured it would be Emmons, and of course it is, if you count both types of Emmons.
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Favorite Steel

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I have two Sho-Buds. A Professional and a Super Pro. I like them both, but play the Super Pro more because it is lighter and has more peddles. Also have a new GFI and it plays great but still like the Sho-Bud sound.
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ZB.
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Alan Harrison
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Favorite Steel

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Mullen Royal Precision. 9&5. Tone to the Bone, Black just sounds better!
Mullen (Black) Pre G-2 9x7, B.L. 705 PUP's, Evans SE 200 Telonics NEO 15-4, BJS Bar, Peterson Strobo Flip, Steelers Choice Seat, Folgers Coffee and Hilton Pedals.

"I Steel Without Remorse"
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Donald Hall
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CARTER S-10
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#1 MSA Legend 70% of the time
#2 MSA Millennium 20%
The other 10% spread among the collection.
#3 Sho-Bud Permanent
#4 Zumsteel
#5 MCI
#6 Fender 400
Johnny "Dumplin" Cox
"YANKIN' STRINGS & STOMPIN' PEDALS" since 1967.
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I have two Zumsteels D10 9/7 one Zum with Humbucker pickups for studio and another Zum with WTT singlecoil pickups - great great guitars both. :lol:

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