The Steel Guitar Forum

How old are you? How old were you when you started playing? Feel free to add you own questions.

Started steel guitar lessons at age 7.
Today, I'm 77.5.
Gee's!

I pretty much went from infancy right straight to adultery
I've been trying to learn how to play good PSG in between wife’s and girlfriends but I’m only 76 yrs old so I just haven’t had enough time.

Started Steel lessons at 7or8, and I'm 67 now. Enjoy it now, just like I did then.

Started at 49, 50 now.

I'm 68. I started playing in 1979, at age 33.

I started at age 31. That was ten years and four guitars ago. 1 carter, 2 Wilcox's, and now a Shadow/MSA. The MSA will probably outlive me....

Started at 33 , now 65.

Started at 29, stopped at 40 or so, resumed at 63, currently 66 y.o.

Wanted to play since I was 20 when I heard Buddy Emmons on the the Who Knows Where The Time Goes album by Judy Collins, and Al Perkins with Manassas. Trying to play since 40 but no time or a properly working instrument. Now at 62 I have both and I've got further in the last six months than in the last twenty years, entirely thanks to this forum.

Started playing guitar at 8 or 9. Started steel at 25. I'm 29 now.

Started at 21 I turned 57 in January.

Started in 1977 at the age of 16. You can do the rest of the counting

I started at 25, I'm 65 now. Man, where did all those years go?

Peter Nylund wrote:Started in 1977 at the age of 16. You can do the rest of the counting

Yes, the counting is easy in my case since we're the same age! Unfortunately for me I started just 3 years ago....but making decent progress and loving it!

Got my first pedal steel in 1973 at age 20...

23. I started playing this August, just before my birthday. I have a long road ahead of me before I catch up to you guys

I couldn't cast a vote..no option for over 70..Or over 80 for that matter..I'm 84...
I'm not a true bonafide steel player but I've been fumbling around on them since early childhood..

started around 20. 65 now.
good thing i didn't start earlier cause i found you had to be able to drink legally.

You've omitted the category 70 and above, which probably covers 50% or more of the Forum membership.

oh..you old people are sooo dead to us youngstas!

I turned 60 and started playing pedal steel about 6 weeks ago. I started lap steel 4 years ago, Mandolin 12 years ago, guitar 48 years ago, and have wanted to play pedal for about 55 years.

I'm 59 and started playing when I was 17.

I agree with Papa Joe and Alan.
You stopped the age classifications too short.
I am 75 years young and started on steel guitar 60+ years ago.

I'll be seventy-one in a couple of weeks (so I guess I could've voted!)

Started studying guitar in 1957 and steel maybe fifteen years after that. Still earning my living at it and (mostly) having fun.