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12 String Acoustic Lap Steel
Posted: 16 Jul 2002 10:31 am
by Mikel Nelson
Has anyone ever heard of, or seen, a 12 string acoustic lap steel (like a 12 string guitar, you know, string pairs)?
I think it would yield some interesting results....
Posted: 16 Jul 2002 11:50 am
by basilh
Yes,
I played a "Tut Taylor" 12string Resonator on my album on TARA records "Sounds of Sunset".
clips are " Under the Double Eagle + San Antonio Rose ", somewhere among the 115 found at :-
http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/html/basil_bio.html
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<SMALL>Steel players do it without fretting</SMALL>
http://www.waikiki-islanders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by basilh on 16 July 2002 at 12:54 PM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 16 Jul 2002 12:08 pm
by Ian McLatchie
Recordings of acoustic 12-string lap playing date back at least to Leadbelly. The most remarkable use of the instrument for Hawaiian-style playing I know is by Kelly Joe Phelps, who as I remember plays a Yamaha in an unusual D7 tuning. The only album on which he plays 12-string is "Roll Away the Stone," which includes an utterly stunning version of the hymn "Doxology." Worth a listen.