What were they using?

Carter York · From: Austin, TX [Windsor Park]

Hey y'all,

I'm curious what kinds of guitars the following players used:

Norm Hamlett (1969) "Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's The Strangers" This is a fantastic instrumental album, with some great Speedy/Jimmy type guitar antics....

Buddy Merrill (1970) "Steel Guitar Country" fantastic twangy instrumentals, is he using the Sho-Bud he's standing next to on the cover?

Thanks for any info, I don't find too much about these guys, but both of these LP's are in heavy rotation.

Carter

Walter Stettner · From: Vienna, Austria

Hey Carter,

I have the Buddy Merrill record, too, he is standing behind an Emmons on the cover, have you ever read the liner notes where it says..."the Emmons guitar featured on this album has twenty strings and four (sic!) foot pedals." Must have been quite a unique guitar!

Walter

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Carter York · From: Austin, TX [Windsor Park]

Thanks Walter, I have been listening to a cd I made from the record and didn't actually look again at the cover, thanks for straightening that out. It sure *sounds* like quite a guitar!
CY

Ron Page · From: Penn Yan, NY USA

Norm Hamlet played a ZB Custom in those years. Whenever I saw him in the 90's he was playing Emmons, and recently GFI.

His copedant stayed pretty much the same all through the years except on his E9th he's moved from a vertical knee to a 4th pedal.

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HagFan

PS: Buddy Merrill is also picture with an Emmons on his "Country Capers" album.

[This message was edited by Ron Page on 04 December 2003 at 02:18 PM.]

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