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Topic: Help identifying a lap steel |
Alan Pagliere
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Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2009 2:00 pm |
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Does anyone know anything about this steel?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2643009&id=640943796#/photo.php?pid=2643009&id=640943796
The photo appears on Liberty Divitto's Facebook Wall. He would like to get any information about the instrument he can.
Liberty Divitto was Billy Joel's drummer for many years and happens to have gone to high school with my brother. Being one of Liberty's Facebook friends and knowing I play pedal steel, my brother asked me for help. I don't know much about pedal-less steels and so I am coming to the one place I know where folks will have the collective brains and experience to solve this mystery.
Any help appreciated.
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Alan Pagliere
MSA Millennium S-12 Universal
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Geoff Cline
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Southwest France
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Posted 14 Sep 2009 2:35 pm
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Looks like a variant of the National "New Yorker" 8 (the shield near the bottom is probably the National logo).
AND Liberty was/is a GREAT drummer. Saw him play many times. |
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Rick Batey
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Posted 14 Sep 2009 2:52 pm
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| I believe that's a National Special, the eight-string version of the Dynamic, in its 1948-1958 form. |
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Rick Batey
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 4:15 am
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Catalog courtesy MLA |
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Alan Pagliere
From:
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 5:10 am
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I appreciate your help. And very cool to have that image. Thanks.
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Alan Pagliere
MSA Millennium S-12 Universal
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Charlie Vegas
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Tampa Bay, FLA, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2009 6:37 am Re: Help identifying a lap steel
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| Alan Pagliere wrote: |
| Liberty Divitto was Billy Joel's drummer for many years and happens to have gone to high school with my brother. |
Your brother went to Seaford High School w/ Liberty DeVitto? |
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