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How Many Newbie Pedal Steel Players?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 6:31 pm
by Jerry Overstreet
David's pedal steel dying art thread got me to wondering how many players have taken up the instrument for the very first time in say, the last 5 years?
I suppose one wouldn't be considered a newbie after a couple years, but for this poll can we use 5 years or less?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 7:28 pm
by Christopher Woitach
It's been almost exactly a year and a half for me. I don't think I'll ever be the same.
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 3:47 am
by Thomas Ludwig
also one and a half year at the pedals.
How Long
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 6:59 am
by Bobby Austin
About a month for me.
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:39 am
by Ian Miller
Fall 2009 over here.
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:33 pm
by Ed Brooks
Year and a half for me too.
Posted: 16 Jun 2011 5:54 am
by Jerry Overstreet
bump for more votes, if you please.
Posted: 16 Jun 2011 7:39 am
by Ray Minich
6 string in 1963, pedals in late '80s. Still play like a newbie. One of these days I gotta get serious.
Posted: 18 Jun 2011 6:01 pm
by William Beverly
Two and a half years here. I was J.B. Crabtree's first guitar teacher and his sister gave me his Dobro and a 40's Gibson Lap Steel when he died. Took me a couple years to tackle the one with all the levers and pedals. Wish I coulod have bout his Emmons. If the guy that bought it here a few years ago ever decides to sell it we would like to get it back 'in the family'.
Posted: 18 Jun 2011 7:56 pm
by Ulrich Sinn
PSG: pretty much one year ago (MSA E9/B6)
played non-pedal & dobro for maybe three, four years before (but guitar forever).
I find pedal steel and non-pedal steel quite difficult (for various reasons string spacing, tuning).
These are actually three different instruments.
I feel the dobro is just starting to open up for me, and I start to grasp the similarities and differences between the instruments.
Posted: 19 Jun 2011 4:21 am
by Steven Cummings
Count me in. Less that a year for me.
Playing an MSA, "The Universal" with Maurice Andersons copedent.
I cannot imagine having a better more competent teacher in my wildest dreams.
It ain't dead if I've got anything to do with it.
Hard to imagine something that can sound so special would ever go away. Just my opinion but I do not see that it will ever, ever die away.
Besides, when and if ya'll get to heaven we'll be listening to the best there's ever been and smilin' bigger than ever.
Posted: 19 Jun 2011 4:41 am
by Jaclyn Jones
Started September 2008. Bought a1966 Marlen d10 that I still have but now play a G2. Been a blast the whole time.
Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:08 am
by Josh Yenne
my 3 year anniversary of picking up my first steel was last thursday!
god I love this instrument!
Has been my lifes obsession since that day.. doing about 100 gigs a year on it now.... inspiring, and profitable.
