| Author |
Topic: Buddy Emmon's first steel guitar?? |
Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
|
Posted 15 May 2008 12:06 pm |
|
What was Buddy Emmon's first Emmons steel guitar? What was it called? Thanks
Terry |
|
|
|
John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
|
Posted 16 May 2008 4:34 am
|
|
There is a picture of Buddy on the last page of Winnies book playing an old Fender double neck, possibly a DeLuxe? He looks to be in his mid teens.
_________________
John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr |
|
|
|
Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
|
Posted 16 May 2008 5:01 am
|
|
| I believe it was one of those six string lap steels; Oahu, Valco, whatever you had then. He tells about it on the cover of Four Wheel Drive LP but I don't have the album at hand right now. |
|
|
|
Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
|
Posted 16 May 2008 8:59 am
|
|
Buddy played a nonpedal Fender steel before pedal steel became popular. His very first pedal steel was a tripleneck Bigsby like Speedy West played.
Brett |
|
|
|
Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
|
Posted 16 May 2008 9:12 am
|
|
| I dont mean to butt in , especially since i dont know the answer, but the question being asked (I think) is what was Buddy's first EMMONS guitar and what was the model called? |
|
|
|
Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
|
Posted 16 May 2008 9:30 am Buddy's first emmons
|
|
Thanks for all your answers guys, all of them are interesting. But Ben is right, I meant the model of his first Emmons guitar.
Terry |
|
|
|
Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
|
|
|
|
Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
|
Posted 16 May 2008 10:01 am
|
|
| Being from Buddy's hometown, this is the story I used to hear: When Buddy designed the Emmons steel guitar he brought the plans to his dad, Don, who was a machinist at a factory in South Bend (Bendix, maybe?). Don made a prototype and it worked, so manufacturing began in Burlington. So that was the very first Emmons steel guitar, but I never heard of a name for it. |
|
|
|
Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
|
Posted 16 May 2008 11:46 am
|
|
Wasn't it an Edmonds?
I saw it on Ebay recently for sale. |
|
|
|
Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
|
Posted 16 May 2008 1:24 pm
|
|
Buddy Emmons would have sounded as profound on a jaws harp! My meaning, no matter would have been his instrument of choice he would have sounded as super!
I have heard alot of stories about Buddy and he has impacted so many of us. My friend the late Speedy West said to me once, "Buddy can just do it all!" Zane Beck my friend said virtually the same thing.
Personally, I think he could have sound as good on a cheese-grader or as we say here in the Ozarks a bisquit board.  But I think we all can agree, we are so happy he chose the Pedal Steel as his instrument of choice.
GOD bless!
Terry Wood |
|
|
|
chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
|
Posted 16 May 2008 2:24 pm
|
|
| pretty sure it was an emmons! |
|
|
|
John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
|
Posted 16 May 2008 2:37 pm
|
|
Terry,
Sorry, I didn't notice the reference to the first "Emmons" steel guitar. Being half owner I guess they were all his at one time or another.
The first Emmons guitar I ever heard him give any special mention to was the "Blade", a walnut D-10.
Not sure if that was his first keeper or not.
He sounded great on every guitar I have ever heard him play. Never was a big Sierra fan but when he was behind his it sounded marvelous! The tone he got from his EMCI was my personal favorite.
Maybe he will happen in here and clear things up about the Emmons.
_________________
John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr |
|
|
|
Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
|
Posted 16 May 2008 9:33 pm emmons
|
|
Thanks a lot guys, and thanks for the pictures. The one with him playing the Fender, Lordy, he can't be much older than 16 or 17. I agree, Buddy would sound good on any brand/model he played. The man is a ledgend in the steel guitar world for sure! 
Terry |
|
|
|
Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
|
Posted 17 May 2008 9:13 pm
|
|
| Buddy's first steel was a Supro 6 string. Jody. |
|
|
|
