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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 6:46 am    
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Forum member Guy Cundell has published a very interesting paper about the use of 7th chord tunings in early steel guitar recordings.

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Kudos to Guy for his exhaustive research into the very real history of our instrument. Great work! Very Happy
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Einar Baldursson


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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 8:25 am    
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That's great. His entire Master's thesis "Across the Pacific: The transformation of the steel guitar from Hawaiian folk instrument to popular music mainstay" is available on the same website as well. I have only skimmed through as of yet but it looks very interesting.
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Jim Smith


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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 8:49 am    
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This sounds like an interesting read, but I'm not going to give the site access to my Google contacts just to read it! Mad Whoa! Devil
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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 3:27 pm    
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Thanks, Bob and Einar.

The thesis is also available here without signing up to Academia.com. (A fairly benign site)

http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/86478

Sorry, Jim. I don't have my own web page or I would host the conference paper there. If you want, drop me an email and I'll send you a copy.
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Jim Smith


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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 8:37 pm    
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Thanks Guy, your link worked just fine! Very Happy
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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 30 Jul 2017 8:55 pm    
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Jim Smith wrote:
Thanks Guy, your link worked just fine! Very Happy

Jim, that link is to my thesis, which I hope you enjoy. But b0b refers to a conference paper that I put online yesterday at Academia.com and is much shorter and to the point. So please, feel free to email me.
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Jeff Spencer

 

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Post  Posted 31 Jul 2017 3:00 am    
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Thanks Guy!! This looks great and thank you for all your effort. I look forward to digging into this!!
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 31 Jul 2017 3:37 am    
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Impressive scholarship, Guy! Very illuminating reading. Thanks for sharing these.
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 31 Jul 2017 6:33 am    
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Great work, Guy!
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Post  Posted 1 Aug 2017 4:36 pm    
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Thanks, Jeff, Andy and Doug.

If you enjoyed this paper, you can see the investigation play out in real time, as it happened, just over four years ago on this forum.

Looking back, Scott Thomas was right on the ball with his call of "Twilight Echoes" c1926 by Smeck.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=2119583&sid=afaae1b93843a4813ec6a324ed37d2b3
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