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This is a new one....

Post by Dave Zirbel »

I’ve heard it called “steel pedal”, lap top slide, tabletop guitar, etc.....the drummer of the opening band said he liked my steel piano🤪
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Post by Kevin Fix »

Enough to piss off the Pope!!!!!! That is sad coming from a musician!!!!!
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Post by Brooks Montgomery »

I hope you referred to him as a bongo player.
A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first.
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Post by Dave Mudgett »

I've had many people come up to me, including musicians, and say my steel is a cool piano or keyboard. I haven't figured out how anybody could think that, but ya' can't make this stuff up.
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Post by Brandin »

I've had it called "the guitar layin' down'.

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I worked at a place, when, the owner thought I was playing a computer.
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Post by Mike Dunlap »

My Granddaughter calls mine "table guitars" I don't care cause she compliments me on my playing. and like i said she is my Granddaughter :D
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I told somebody the other day that it was an 'electric ironing board'
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Post by Jerry Korkki »

Way back when, a club owner that our band worked for always called it table steel. To this day when I run into him he still mentions how he liked my table steel playing. Doesn't bother me a bit (maybe cause he's the only one to give me a compliment).
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A hippie "chick" once told me that my guitar looked like a burial for two salmon.
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Post by Paul Wade »

Tony Glassman wrote:A hippie "chick" once told me that my guitar looked like a burial for two salmon.
Lol!!!!! :lol:
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Post by Paul Wade »

Brooks Montgomery wrote:I hope you referred to him as a bongo player.
lol :lol: :lol:
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Post by Mike Perlowin »

A review of a band local magazine called it a "table slide."
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Somebody once called it “the Moog synthesizer”. Granted, I was using lots of effects on that gig...but Jeez!
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When I played in a band with Kevin Quick a guy came up to our late singer Alan Hamel and asked him what was Kevin playing,Alan told the guy that "Stu breaks so many strings while playing that Kevin had to wind new ones for Stu,and it was a string winding machine.
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Post by Greg Gefell »

I’ve heard it called, “a math problem on legs!”
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Post by Dick Hitchcock »

I've had it called a "Singer Sewing Machine" :lol: :lol:
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Post by Jim Cohen »

Greg Gefell wrote:I’ve heard it called, “a math problem on legs!”
Ooh, I like that one. ;)
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Extraterrestrial Instrument

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A good drummer friend of mine that used to work the road with the Hag and a few other greats told me that he once told the steel player that the instrument must be from outer space as no earthling could be so coordinated as to have each limb do something that seemed so thoroughly difficult all at the same time other than an "alien" with "out of this world" capabilities. As I try to learn to play the instrument ...... I am beginning to think he might have been right. LOL If nothing else, a darn good description of just how difficult it is.
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Kevin Fix wrote:Enough to piss off the Pope!!!!!! That is sad coming from a musician!!!!!

No he said it was a drummer that told him that, not a musician.
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Post by Mike Perlowin »

Greg Gefell wrote:I’ve heard it called, “a math problem on legs!”
That's actually what it is. :lol:
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Post by Ian Rae »

I remember reading that in theory, a bumblebee can't fly because it's wings are too small to generate enough lift. So there's hope for us steelers yet.
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Post by MIchael Bean »

A singer I was backing announced it as "laptop steel".
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Extraterrestrial Instrument

Post by Donald Brigner »

Sorry guys, I took it as a compliment (and I'm sure he meant it that way) when the drummer made those comments about steel players being "aliens". I am only a novice and highly respect you fellas that have mastered the instrument. I will be more cautious about my future posts. It was a joke and I thought it was funny but I suppose everyone has their own ideas about that.
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