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Topic: " Watch out he's bringing in a Xylophone"... |
Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 11:19 am |
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At a gig saturday night.. I was bringing the body of my Fender pedal steel through the door,
[ without the case] legs and pedal rack were still in the car..
As I am dragging that heavyass monstrosity through the door, that exactly what I heard some guy say to his friends, or girlfriend...
A Xylophone... Now, I have heard my steel called an Autoharp, String Table, Keyboard[a million times], slide,Hawaiian guitar,Zither,bedsprings, stand up guitar, etc... NEVER had someone call it a Xylo... I dunno, sometimes I get annoyed at this sort of thing, but I suppose thats unfair.. but really now,,, a Xylophone??.....
Later on a pretty young lady was intrigued by it, as she played piano and understood music pretty well. She had never seen one, wanted to know how it worked, and I gave her the grand tour.. Showed her how the pitch of the strings changed by string tension, showed her how intuitive it really was by going I IV V on the same fret, with attendant relative minors etc...
So in one gig within an hour I ran into a borderline blockhead that was obviously pretty clueless, and a musician that was interested in learning about what make a pedal steel tick.
Just found it interesting.
..... Xylophone....
brother.. 
bob
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
no gear list for me.. you don't have the time......
Last edited by Bob Carlucci on 18 Aug 2013 12:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Dean Rimmer
From:
texas
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 12:11 pm
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| how bout a ouija board with strings...,yep |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 12:27 pm
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Even as a young child I knew the PSG wasn't a Xylophone.
My dad's first PSG was a Fender and he kept saying over and over he wished it was a Xylophone  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 12:39 pm
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
Xylophone... that's a new one on me. One time two young drunks were checking out my PSG after a gig and one told me he really liked my Keyboard. The other one laughed and said "you idiot, that's a Synthesizer!" And he was serious. I've also heard it called a String Guitar, a Slide, and even an Iron Guitar!   |
Iron guitar,, thats not bad... I can accept that 
btw, that old Fender feels like an iron guitar.. Its an s 10 but its as heavy as most old school d 10s.. Really ridiculous..
Lugging a D10 Fender 2000??. I can't even imagine.... bob
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
no gear list for me.. you don't have the time......
Last edited by Bob Carlucci on 18 Aug 2013 12:41 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 12:40 pm
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Sorry Doug you know the devil made me do it. 
Last edited by Joe Casey on 19 Aug 2013 7:42 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 1:32 pm
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Which is which, Bob?
The best one I ever heard was, when I was in High School or just out, I was playing a private party for high school friends, and a friend's beautiful girlfriend came up and said she really liked my "organ". I was never the same after that.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting.
Last edited by Richard Sinkler on 18 Aug 2013 1:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 1:35 pm
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wow.. maybe that guy wasn't such a bone head after all.. That little xylo on the keyboard stand does look like a short steel guitar body, doesn't it??..
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
no gear list for me.. you don't have the time...... |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 19 Aug 2013 7:58 am
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If all the steel builders got together Imagine a peddle Xylo? E-9th probably
 Might just have something here and it won't sound like a Bango. I know b0b I have way too much time on my hands. |
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Ian Sutton
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 20 Aug 2013 12:12 pm
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I got "Table Steel" on Saturday night. That was from one of the sit-in singers cueing me for a break. Certainly no xylophone, or some of the other funny ones, but first time I had heard that iteration.
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Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 21 Aug 2013 12:09 pm
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ooh.. thats a new one!
I've heard all the standard ones thats for sure....
Electric dulcimer! |
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