The Steel Guitar Forum

April 11, 2016,

Hello,

I have made these 9 demos of the great working and sounding ZumSteel Stage One pedal steel guitar
and put them on the Steel Guitar Forum.

I played most of them (the first 6) the wonderful Lloyd Green playing style that I admire,
and I have studied many years.

Yours sincerely,
Henning K.

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9 demos of the zumsteel stage one
pedal steel guitar
played august 1915 by
henning kock
multi instrumentalist
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1
one has my name 1507 v2
https://youtu.be/Du-ZE9QL6J8

2
one has my name 1508
https://youtu.be/00RMzQcA2ZY

3
borrowed angel 1504 v3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFa--yuF1n8

4
making believe 1510 v10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmchsIIhL7Q

5
making believe 1532
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqPCrfNBk_E

6
making believe 1509 (3 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkPKxrUL3_k

7
country road 1525
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6FjiBaQyAY

8
hotel strand twist 1534
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2E3p7W0A3E

9
blues ideas 1533 v2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgQllivVd8

Very enjoyable Mr Kock.
Thank you for sharing.
JB

Funny......MY Stage One doesn't sound as good, when I play it! Maybe I need to send it back to Doug!?!?!


PS......any tabs for your tracks?

Jim Fogarty wrote:Funny......MY Stage One doesn't sound as good, when I play it! Maybe I need to send it back to Doug!?!?!


PS......any tabs for your tracks?

I have the same problem !

Mr. Kock....may I ask what pickup you had installed.....beautiful sound and performance.

Beautiful playing and tone.

Hi Henning,

VERY nice playing - as usual - and I really like your "music room" there! Nice and spacious

Guys:
I've heard Henning play several times and he just always sounds good.
I also visited once with Henning where we sat in his indoor music room and we both played his Pro ZumSteel D-10 and also the famous Lloyd Green JCH and needless to say Henning sounded fantastic on both and I - unfortunately - sounded like me, so it IS in the hands folks!

Henning:
There's something strange going on with sound on some of these clips. They have a low frequency rumbling and the sound sort of "stutters" a little in places - at least when I listen to them. I don't know what that can be?

Ole

I think the low rumble is wind getting into the microphone. That's what it sounds like to me.

I like Country Roads, nice playing.

April 17, 2016

Hello all,

Thank you for the nice comments.

1) I have no tracks or tablature for these melodies. They are in my head after having listened to Lloyds melodies on tapes, CDs, VHS and youtube videos for many years, and many hundreds and hundreds of times. (my wife asks me why I listen to and play the same over and over again? :-)

I even studied Lloyds playing in 10 or 20 seconds bites, listening to if it is a wound or a plain string that is used, and of course relating to what was played just close before that, and what is played after.
This is what gives Lloyds seemless melody lines, which are so elegant and musically meaningful (just like a theme with varitions by Mozart or Haendel).

2) The Zumsteel Stage One is not just a student model any more. Now it is a fully grown lightweight ecocomy model
with 3 foot and 4 knees, aluminum neck and humbucking pickup and more . . .
Speaking of the pickup, it can be bought from Doug Earnest, builder of Stage One Steel Guitars, to upgrade older models more that 10 years old. This pickup is only 17 millimeter high and special made for the Stage One.
This pickup (see photo) demand no cutting, milling or routing in the steel guitars body.
You can order it from him here
http://www.stageonesteelguitars.com/
doug@stageonesteelguitars.com

The sound of the Stage One with this new pickup and the aluminum neck, has a nice middle tone, a tasteful treble tone, and a nice overall destinctive yet rounded tone.



3) My pedal steel guitar students often begins a lesson asking "Why does it sound week when I play, and strong and precise when you play?"
I tell them: "You have to press harder down on the steelbar to add energy to the playing string. Also add a little slow tastful vibrato with the steelbar: one millimeter to the left and one millimeter to the right.

4) The small noise on some of the recordings is just wind getting into the microphone.
The summer over here in Denmark is not what it used to be.
If I may exaggerate: The summer lasts only one month here, and is made out of: a little sun, a little rain and a little wind :-)
On the 2 days I recorded these demos, there was fortunately no rain, but some wind that my recording equipment did not like all the time.
But just ignore that and enjoy the music.

5) To liste to more Lloyd Green music: * * * Pedal steel player Walter Stettner has made an appreciation website for Lloyd, take a look at
www.lloydgreentribute.com

Best regards
Henning K.