The Steel Guitar Forum

First, thanks to everyone who responded to my question about playing and gigging (http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/012709.html)

A follow-up question to that is, how many of you started steeling at a later age - say, 40 years old or older? (I'm just using 40 as a baseline - at 46, I don't consider "40" old.)

Depending on how you reckon such things . . . I had a student steel which I noodled around on for several years, but I didn't get serious about it til about 6 months ago. I'm 45, & consider myself to be a newbie!

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Magnum SD10, Ultralinear Twin, who could ask for anything more!

I don't call you guys 'older.' 58 is 'older.' There are older newbies than me.

I took lessons when I was about 15. I started getting serious about 6 months ago and played out for the first time last night. At 42 I consider myself a newbie. I have a long way to go. <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Dan Haas on 31 July 2006 at 10:39 AM.]</p></FONT>

i'm 58 and have been tinkering around steel for 2 years. guess that makes me oldie but newbie.

I'm 62 on 7/14/06. I feel pretty good. Started steel on a 8 string fender lap steel (on legs) about 3 months ago. I like it.

I have been studying the pedal steel (you notice I didn't say playing) for a little over a year and I am 59

Started 3 months ago at 50, but then a lady never really tells her true age.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.]</p></FONT><font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.]</p></FONT>

at 64 and one half playing in and out would i be a newbe, oldie, or a olde newbe or nether one?
jerry

I started seriously on lap steel two years ago at 74. Billy


50s Fender Dual Pro

I started playing pedal steel in 2000, I'm 52 now. Wish I'd started sooner, but better late than never.

Started 2004 at age 41. Just starting to really feel as if I can find a chord or two.

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Thomas SD10 3/4,Thomas D10 8/5 and Desert Rose S10 3/4. Beginner

I've been playing about a year.I'm 54 now and wished I had started sooner.I'll learn sooner or later because I haven't found anything that I can't do,if I really want to.
Andy

I started for a very short time in my 40's...basically a few months with an awful guitar.

Started again at 53, initally with ANOTHER awful guitar, then shifted gears to an old Fender and that was it and a bag o' chips.

Bought my first pedal steel at 54 and I am still confused at 56.(Pretty sure it's the guitar causing the confusion) Wouldn't give it up though!

Wil

I have been playing just over a year and a half and I am almost 55. I wish I had started earlier in life but I don't know that I would have been as committed or enjoyed it as much as I do now.

Here I am...played around with one years ago while doing cover song band stuff. Got serious at about 40 something...lost them all and restarted this year at 51.

I'm 45 and started roughly 3 years ago. I consider myself a newbie alright

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Klaus Caprani

MCI RangeXpander S-10 3x4
www.klauscaprani.com

72 --- guitar purchased this year.

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Don

West Coast Double 8 Nashville 112

i started out on a carter starter two years ago last march. then went to a carter U12 too many strings then i went back to a 10 string now i have the best. but still learning how its done. thanks doc.

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zum SD10 peavy session 400 peavy XR600G
if its not a zum steel it isn't real
just trying to steel for the Lord>

see there it goes showing my age and forgetting to tell how old i am well i am still in my prime.


59 be 60 in jan 07

im a newbe at 63 just started with a new carter starter and a little pevey 158 rage and a tascam gt 2 guitar trainer and love it

I took lessons for a few years back in the 1950's. I think I was about 13 years old when I started. I quit playing for over 44 years and I just started back about 5 or 6 month's ago and I am 64 years old.
Mel Taylor

I've been a student of the steel for 3 1/2 years now. I'm 51 1/2, so I guess I'm gettin' "long in the tooth", too. I have never had something I enjoyed so much---just wish I'd started 35 years ago.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by James Morehead on 04 August 2006 at 05:45 PM.]</p></FONT>

I've played 6-string seriously since I was 17, lap steel since I was 39, and now pedal steel at 43.