The Steel Guitar Forum

Posted: **16 Dec 2002 8:21 pm**

A good teacher knows his limitations ....

Dead Spots ....

http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT/work/we4/hauptdoc.html

Harmos sound

http://www.harmosmusic.com/tech.htm#resonance

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The Steel Cobbler [This message was edited by Rick Aiello on 16 December 2002 at 08:29 PM.]

Posted: **16 Dec 2002 8:25 pm**

Posted: **16 Dec 2002 9:04 pm**

Howdy Jeff- you must have played one of the first models with all of the controls on the end- since then we have moved the volume up to the top. You can see it in the bottom lefthand picture from the Elderly Instruments page- http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/HAM8.htm
Since the frame has a lot of resonance, it is "alive", and since the frequency of the resonance is high (above most of the played notes), it tends to amplify the upper notes and harmonics instead of squishing them. It is also more sensitive to differences in pickups than other guitars I've worked with, but I can't give a scientific explanation for that.
And thanks Rick, for the great link explaining dead spots. Some great tuition there.
T. Sage Harmos
Harmos Steel Guitars
[This message was edited by Sage on 16 December 2002 at 09:07 PM.]

Posted: **16 Dec 2002 9:19 pm**

Posted: **17 Dec 2002 8:03 pm**

Thanks for telling me about that, Jeff. It is good to hear. I wish I could hear Bobby play it in person- Heck, I wish I could hear him play anything in person!
T. Sage Harmos