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David --
Several years ago when I was involved in amateur radio, a lot of folks made various pieces of equipment AND they then made a list of the commercially purchased parts they used to make it?? b ...

FWIW -- %20 is a space character.

So if I searched for "blah blah" it would be fed to the search process as "blah%20blah"

Clair

Clair, here are some other important resources: ... Billy Hew Len-The Hal Smith Archives mp3. I guess you can see my bias.

I've spent about an hour searching (and I'm good at this) and came up virt ...

Hi James --
Thanks for that link -- had not run across that site??

It sure looks interesting. It also appeals to me because of the western/country slant (no pun intended). And, given my most un-r ...

I'm both a verbal and visual person--but when it comes to learning the lap steel, I find the visual to be incredibly helpful -- sort of a "teach me to fish and I'll go off and fish!" There a ...

I'm glad I found you and Doug -- I'm all set -- and I just today ordered Cold Cold Heart to get in on the sale and save my meager bucks.

I must say, the DVD technology helps those of us who live in ...

I thought I would organize my experiences in case it might help others. Mind you, we're all different so I'm annotating my recommendations so that you can consider the source (me!). The top of the hea ...

Hi Stephen--

Open G
Open D
Open A
Open E

Has tunes and licks for these tunings in notation and tab. The songs are real (not made up) Down in the Valley, Midnight Special, etc. Looks to be a d ...

A Gretsch Eletromatic is pictured on the cover of Hal Leonard's publication: Lap Steel Guitar by Johnnie Helms.

It's a much later model than the one you show and not MOTS-covered. Gretsch is on th ...

I will be getting The Magic Steel Guitarist -- what a wonderful piece of history you have made available. I've been looking at it (your avatar) and wondering about it.

thank you

Steve --
Thanks for the pic -- haven't seen one of those before -- because you shot it straight on vertically, the fretboard has the look of a necktie -- cool.

Pictures? Please -- want to see everything while I'm learning!

Thanks.

Eddie --
Thanks for the Vaugel link; I'm sending on to a sculptor whose web site I just finished. She does some figurative work and I think she will find it interesting.

Also, thanks for your kind ...

Eddie -
Very nice to listen with my first cup of coffee -- a good wake up -- I very much liked Happy Blues as well.

thanks!

Well, right now this is a topic near and dear to my heart. My "new" lap steel was shipped from California on the 12th of January and it's still not here (Vermont). Sigh. Hope it doesn't turn ...

Hi Mike --
Nice site -- look forward to its growth! Also enjoyed reading your blogs on tunings.

Just a note, which you probably already have discovered. The hover color in your CSS for the menu is ...

Thanks to all you westerners for the "invites" but I can't afford to go anywhere I can't drive to and even that is iffy given my 11-year-old Chevy! -- which of course is why I asked the ques ...

Good one David -- a real class. You are lucky! I expect great things come May!!

And right now I'm not, my dream machine has not yet arrived and I'm getting squirrelier by the minute. Sigh.

In my not so distant past I rebuilt, moved, repaired, and tuned pianos. Up here in rural Vermont many of my customers' pianos were old uprights. Everything else being fairly okay, bass strings were of ...

I made an earlier version of this for me and it helped a lot. I prettied it up a bit for SGF. Obviously the chords I chose to diagram are subjective. If you want to fiddle with it to make your own ver ...

Rich - thanks -- gives me hope.

If I'm teaching summer, I could afford probably half of it, but if I'm teaching summer I couldn't go! lol

At least I know there's some life in the near east!

C ...

Tom --
I looked at your images and they are wonderful!

When I win the lottery and get into binge buying of lap steels, in the one from you I need you to put in, for the dark wood, that African wo ...

Saw this post today:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=198978
About a "camp" in Texas.

Why are these always West of the Mississippi?

How about one around Concord, NH - ...

Welcome to the Forum, David. Glad to see another New Englander here! And your machine is beautiful. I'm waiting, not well, for my "new" National Dynamic to arrive. Your machine is truly eleg ...

David - et al.

Yes, indeed. I look forward to the day when I feel capable of writing tab -- it will come. But for now I rely on others to learn. I'm also working on re-learning a bit of bass --- I ...

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Topic: Cookie Tin Lap Steel
Clair Dunn Replies: 14 Views: 8993	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 3 Feb 2011 2:23 am Subject: Cookie Tin Lap Steel
Clair Dunn Replies: 14 Views: 8993	David -- Several years ago when I was involved in amateur radio, a lot of folks made various pieces of equipment AND they then made a list of the commercially purchased parts they used to make it?? b ...
Topic: question about tab and notation
Clair Dunn Replies: 17 Views: 9304	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Feb 2011 3:34 pm Subject: question about tab and notation
Clair Dunn Replies: 17 Views: 9304	FWIW -- %20 is a space character. So if I searched for "blah blah" it would be fed to the search process as "blah%20blah" Clair
Topic: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Feb 2011 4:01 am Subject: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Clair, here are some other important resources: ... Billy Hew Len-The Hal Smith Archives mp3. I guess you can see my bias. I've spent about an hour searching (and I'm good at this) and came up virt ...
Topic: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 1 Feb 2011 6:24 am Subject: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Hi James -- Thanks for that link -- had not run across that site?? It sure looks interesting. It also appeals to me because of the western/country slant (no pun intended). And, given my most un-r ...
Topic: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 1 Feb 2011 2:02 am Subject: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	I'm both a verbal and visual person--but when it comes to learning the lap steel, I find the visual to be incredibly helpful -- sort of a "teach me to fish and I'll go off and fish!" There a ...
Topic: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 31 Jan 2011 9:37 am Subject: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	I'm glad I found you and Doug -- I'm all set -- and I just today ordered Cold Cold Heart to get in on the sale and save my meager bucks. I must say, the DVD technology helps those of us who live in ...
Topic: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 31 Jan 2011 7:56 am Subject: ONE Summary of Learning Material for Newbies
Clair Dunn Replies: 16 Views: 6225	I thought I would organize my experiences in case it might help others. Mind you, we're all different so I'm annotating my recommendations so that you can consider the source (me!). The top of the hea ...
Topic: Gretsch Electromatic Lap steel anybody seen this one?
Clair Dunn Replies: 6 Views: 4445	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 28 Jan 2011 2:37 am Subject: Gretsch Electromatic Lap steel anybody seen this one?
Clair Dunn Replies: 6 Views: 4445	Hi Stephen-- Open G Open D Open A Open E Has tunes and licks for these tunings in notation and tab. The songs are real (not made up) Down in the Valley, Midnight Special, etc. Looks to be a d ...
Topic: Gretsch Electromatic Lap steel anybody seen this one?
Clair Dunn Replies: 6 Views: 4445	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 27 Jan 2011 3:20 am Subject: Gretsch Electromatic Lap steel anybody seen this one?
Clair Dunn Replies: 6 Views: 4445	A Gretsch Eletromatic is pictured on the cover of Hal Leonard's publication: Lap Steel Guitar by Johnnie Helms. It's a much later model than the one you show and not MOTS-covered. Gretsch is on th ...
Topic: Check out the online store I built for Lap Steel material
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 2624	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 Jan 2011 1:46 pm Subject: Check out the online store I built for Lap Steel material
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 2624	I will be getting The Magic Steel Guitarist -- what a wonderful piece of history you have made available. I've been looking at it (your avatar) and wondering about it. thank you
Topic: My new Harmony H-7 Roy Smeck lap steel from 1969!
Clair Dunn Replies: 12 Views: 5477	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 Jan 2011 12:39 am Subject: My new Harmony H-7 Roy Smeck lap steel from 1969!
Clair Dunn Replies: 12 Views: 5477	Steve -- Thanks for the pic -- haven't seen one of those before -- because you shot it straight on vertically, the fretboard has the look of a necktie -- cool.
Topic: My new Harmony H-7 Roy Smeck lap steel from 1969!
Clair Dunn Replies: 12 Views: 5477	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 Jan 2011 4:47 am Subject: My new Harmony H-7 Roy Smeck lap steel from 1969!
Clair Dunn Replies: 12 Views: 5477	Pictures? Please -- want to see everything while I'm learning! Thanks.
Topic: 2 new videos "PYS".
Clair Dunn Replies: 8 Views: 1842	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 Jan 2011 4:41 am Subject: 2 new videos "PYS".
Clair Dunn Replies: 8 Views: 1842	Eddie -- Thanks for the Vaugel link; I'm sending on to a sculptor whose web site I just finished. She does some figurative work and I think she will find it interesting. Also, thanks for your kind ...
Topic: 2 new videos "PYS".
Clair Dunn Replies: 8 Views: 1842	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 Jan 2011 2:03 am Subject: 2 new videos "PYS".
Clair Dunn Replies: 8 Views: 1842	Eddie - Very nice to listen with my first cup of coffee -- a good wake up -- I very much liked Happy Blues as well. thanks!
Topic: shipping a steel guitar
Clair Dunn Replies: 18 Views: 7938	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 23 Jan 2011 1:52 am Subject: shipping a steel guitar
Clair Dunn Replies: 18 Views: 7938	Well, right now this is a topic near and dear to my heart. My "new" lap steel was shipped from California on the 12th of January and it's still not here (Vermont). Sigh. Hope it doesn't turn ...
Topic: Check out the online store I built for Lap Steel material
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 2624	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Jan 2011 3:30 am Subject: Check out the online store I built for Lap Steel material
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 2624	Hi Mike -- Nice site -- look forward to its growth! Also enjoyed reading your blogs on tunings. Just a note, which you probably already have discovered. The hover color in your CSS for the menu is ...
Topic: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 21 Jan 2011 1:45 am Subject: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Thanks to all you westerners for the "invites" but I can't afford to go anywhere I can't drive to and even that is iffy given my 11-year-old Chevy! -- which of course is why I asked the ques ...
Topic: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Jan 2011 9:34 am Subject: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Good one David -- a real class. You are lucky! I expect great things come May!! And right now I'm not, my dream machine has not yet arrived and I'm getting squirrelier by the minute. Sigh.
Topic: sustain timing questions
Clair Dunn Replies: 3 Views: 1180	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Jan 2011 5:11 am Subject: sustain timing questions
Clair Dunn Replies: 3 Views: 1180	In my not so distant past I rebuilt, moved, repaired, and tuned pianos. Up here in rural Vermont many of my customers' pianos were old uprights. Everything else being fairly okay, bass strings were of ...
Topic: C6 fretboard map for beginners
Clair Dunn Replies: 3 Views: 3050	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Jan 2011 2:19 am Subject: C6 fretboard map for beginners
Clair Dunn Replies: 3 Views: 3050	I made an earlier version of this for me and it helped a lot. I prettied it up a bit for SGF. Obviously the chords I chose to diagram are subjective. If you want to fiddle with it to make your own ver ...
Topic: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Jan 2011 6:06 am Subject: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Rich - thanks -- gives me hope. If I'm teaching summer, I could afford probably half of it, but if I'm teaching summer I couldn't go! lol At least I know there's some life in the near east! C ...
Topic: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Jan 2011 5:51 am Subject: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Tom -- I looked at your images and they are wonderful! When I win the lottery and get into binge buying of lap steels, in the one from you I need you to put in, for the dark wood, that African wo ...
Topic: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Jan 2011 3:54 am Subject: Are there ever any "camps" in New England
Clair Dunn Replies: 5 Views: 1645	Saw this post today: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=198978 About a "camp" in Texas. Why are these always West of the Mississippi? How about one around Concord, NH - ...
Topic: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Jan 2011 1:57 am Subject: Help dating an early National New Yorker?
Clair Dunn Replies: 10 Views: 3931	Welcome to the Forum, David. Glad to see another New Englander here! And your machine is beautiful. I'm waiting, not well, for my "new" National Dynamic to arrive. Your machine is truly eleg ...
Topic: question about tab and notation
Clair Dunn Replies: 17 Views: 9304	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Jan 2011 1:56 am Subject: question about tab and notation
Clair Dunn Replies: 17 Views: 9304	David - et al. Yes, indeed. I look forward to the day when I feel capable of writing tab -- it will come. But for now I rely on others to learn. I'm also working on re-learning a bit of bass --- I ...