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early steel guitar footage
Posted: 23 Oct 2022 1:59 pm
by Tim Toberer
steel guitar starts about 1:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQiaUEzR_E
Sounds like The Alabama Jubilee this is the only other thing I could find on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUQAqiDj9U
Posted: 24 Oct 2022 3:49 pm
by Glenn Wilde
Very cool. Thanks
Posted: 24 Oct 2022 5:46 pm
by Chris Clem
There is this Roy Smeck film also done by Vidaphone from 1926.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9CaonSO1Ns[/url]
Posted: 25 Oct 2022 1:26 am
by Peter Funk
Chris Clem wrote:There is this Roy Smeck film also done by Vidaphone from 1926.
Listening to Roy Smeck in this video makes me wonder, what tuning he did use. Sounds like something with a "7" in it? And: Is this an 8-string guitar? I count 4 tuners on the trebele side ...
Posted: 25 Oct 2022 2:06 am
by Peter Funk
Peter Funk wrote:And: Is this an 8-string guitar? I count 4 tuners on the trebele side ...
In the meantime: Found some information about the guitar here:
https://www.vintageguitar.com/34912/the ... athopoulo/
Interesting ...
Posted: 25 Oct 2022 4:06 am
by David Matzenik
Great stuff, all of it, not just the steel guitar.
Posted: 25 Oct 2022 4:52 am
by Chris Clem
Here is Roy with his Octochorda guitar on the left..
Good stuff
Posted: 26 Oct 2022 9:06 am
by Steven Cummings
Thanks Tim. Very enjoyable.