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"Bar Quaking" is a term you never see here.

Curley Chalker is credited with it's invention.

Anyone care to describe it? Examples?

Curley, being an avid duck hunter, used to spend a good deal of time out in the marshes of Chillicothe, Ohio. Not wanting to miss out on any practice time, he would take a small lap steel with him and practice while waiting for a good shot. One day he was practicing a bar hammer-on technique and heard a duck respond with a quack from behind. He hammered the bar on the strings again and once again the duck responded. Well, he shot that duck and discovered he could call ducks in by the dozens using that old bar hammer technique that he thought must have sounded like a duck quack to them ducks. So he called it “bar quacking”!

Oh, excuse me… you said “quaking” ....never mind!

Terry
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Terry, it takes a warped mind to play the steel. I like that in a person, haha, Gary.

I was expecting someone to tell about Quakers at a Tavern.

Yeah, I played a street dance once in Auburn, Ks. in late October and it musta been about 25 degrees with 30 mph winds out of the north. I can tell ya all about bar quaking!

Not to mention paralysis of the right hand.

I learned more about playing simply that night than I had in 20 years!

Is it the same thing as the "Drake Shake?" I thought Curly invented the "Curly Shuffle" Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk! Sorry Joey

Anybody ever heard of Speedy West???
(I'm ducking now)

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Bill Ford

You can call up ducks with a dobro.I would not believe it but I saw a tree that became full of them, one by one, to the sounds of a dobro.It was recorded on video.

I'm moving this to the Humor Section, since there's not one serious reply.

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