The Steel Guitar Forum

kona and weissenborn accoustic hawaiian guitars
fender rhodes
hammond b3
musicman bass
monarch and sterling diatonic accordians
hammered dulcimer
michael stearns' sound constellation

Steinway Grand Piano
Bosendorfer Grand Piano
Franklin Pedabro

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The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons

Love the sound of a good Basson or an Oboe. Blondie Calderon playing the Vibes (or whatever it is).

Can't stand that type of sax Kenny G plays.

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Carter D10 8p/10k
Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com

Agreed.

Oboe and Cello. They're the fiddle and PSG of classical music. IMO.

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The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons

BANJO, BANJO, BANJO, AND MORE BANJO!

( sorry b0b )

Richard, That sax that Kenny G plays is called a straight soprano sax. Gee, I wonder why they call it a soprano? Could it be the ultra high squeek that they make? Kenny G is one of the best. Imagine what that thing would sound like in the hands of an amateur!
Thank god we have steel. Have a nice day.

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You haven't heard me play steel yet, have you?

Hey, Terry -- I used to live out there in the rice paddies, too. From '84 to '90.

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The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons

The "Stick"
Otherwise known as the Chapman Stick.
Check it out. This is a WILD instrument. www.stick.com or
some recordings of Stick player Greg Howard at www.greghoward.com

Enjoy,
Kurt

The Theremin.

Used by Led Zeppelin, the Beach Boys, Lothar & the Hand People and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
An interesting sound, but an aquired taste.

Terry, Thanks. I did know it was a soprano sax, but when I think of Kenny G, my mind tries to go blank .

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Carter D10 8p/10k
Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com

Gotta go with,Hammered Dulcimer and Dobro.

Soprano sax? That's the ill wind that no man blows good, isn't it?

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Herb's Steel Guitar Homesite

BANJO..BANJO..BANJO & MORE BANJO, ATONAL BANJO TOO

(NOT SORRY!)

Gary Lee

i love Bagpipes,Accordeon,Hammond B3,Cello,
Saxophones,the Stick,the Human voice...
Steel havin' a good time....

Also I'm getting great enjoyment from an 8 string guitar , converted from an old Eko 12 string acoustic . This has an alimunium nut , so I easily added few extra slots to the nut and the bridge , without really butchering anything . The problem is string spacing , but it is playable though. I have .70 string for the low B , regular set of 11's for the EADGBE and a .9 for the high A .
The whole tuning is down a whole tone as the string length is so long and the high A kept popping on me , about 5 strings in a row . I was a nervous wreck after that , and broke for a week
I'll try and scan the nut if anyone is interested ? No , on second thoughts don't answer that .

OH the solitude, joy and deliverance ,and releace of tention I would get and hour after Mamma had whipped my tail, for my wrongful deed's.
It is then I would pull out my old trusty comb and some wax paper, that I had managed to steal out of mamma's kitchen.
Now that was some music.
Why I felt like I was just as good as what I had been hearing on the radio.
I was Benny Goodman at his best,or some of the other's in the big band era.
Country did'nt come on our A.M radio till after 12 o;clock surely by then I was playing ball with the boys.
Seeing as how we lived in a shotgun house off the ground,I made some good music beating on the plumbing ,with a peace of pipe left by the plumber I supose.
Then Mamma would take a switch and make music out of me that the neighber's down the street could tune into.
Come to think of it, with my frail instrument's and mamma's switch, and my groan's and moan's and howl's I may have started rock and roll

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BJ Bailey


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Good one BJ

Here's the worst of both worlds.

http://www.netmusicdeals.com/garrison.htm

mAN ,What a fly swatter.

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BJ Bailey

Nose Flute!

Comb and paper. It's the only use i have for a comb nowadays.