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Early pedal steel

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 12:15 pm
by Rusty Rogers
This is Glenn Derry,he built this
guitar in the mid 40's.He worked in
the San Diego area in those years.

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Posted: 3 Jan 2008 12:18 pm
by Sonny Jenkins
Hey Rusty,,,are you related to Smokey????

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 1:16 pm
by richard burton
Is he playing 'Take These Chains.....' :)

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 3:04 pm
by chris ivey
pretty cool, really.......and i dig the 'hat tilt' and the boots...

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 5:14 pm
by Larry Jamieson
Didn't anybody tell him you're supposed to have a volume pedal?
Larry J.

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 5:43 pm
by Bill Hatcher
I love to pics of the instruments of guys like this fellow. Hears a sound in his head and comes up with a way to do it that was very far reaching at the time. Pretty cool.

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 7:04 pm
by Donny Hinson
I agree, Bill! Having 8 pedals was pretty "rad" in the '40s.

Posted: 3 Jan 2008 7:15 pm
by Greg Cutshaw
The hat gives him the Bill Monroe look. He sure looks comfortable playing that thing. I suppose there are no recordings of him playing it?

Greg

Posted: 5 Jan 2008 9:04 am
by Rusty Rogers
No Sonny,I knew him but no relation.

Posted: 7 Jan 2008 9:07 pm
by Don Blood
Wonder which pedal is the clutch! :lol:

Posted: 8 Jan 2008 3:36 pm
by Bobbe Seymour
Richard Burton, you kill me ! Great observation though!


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