The Steel Guitar Forum

I just put a peizo acoustic guitar pickup on my steel. It successfully picked up the vibrations of the strings, but it also picked up and amplified all the mechanical noise.

I have 2 lead guitars retrofitted with these pickups and wired for stereo (wth a mono switch for convenience) between the electric and acoustic tones, and I love the way they sound. On a lead guitar this is a great system, and I'm going to install it on all my other instruments including my non-pedal steel guitars.

But this is definately not a good idea for a pedal steel guitar. Too bad. If it had worked it would have been very cool.

Oh well..........

Glad to see your back at it Mike!

Hi Mike,
Good to see that you`re well !
I installed a saddle piezo on my Asher lap steel and it works real good !
One should never stop experimenting....

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Olli Haavisto
Polar steeler
Finland


<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Olli Haavisto on 08 June 2002 at 01:26 AM.]</p></FONT>

One test is worth a thousand thories.

Thanks for sharing Mike.