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Let's see some crude ones too!

I can do that!

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix/6669_KeithsSteel_1.jpg
Mahogany body, brass nut and bridge, DeArmand 2000 pickup, stainless cover plat ...

Wait a minute. How can it be the tourists' fault that some hotel's management is scrimping on thier entertainment budget?

Isn't it the tourists that make the hotels happen in the first place? And n ...

I see no reason a fanned scale wouldn't work on a steel guitar. Possibly very well.

I hope you build it and give us a full report!

Does anybody here have any experience with a fan-fretted steel? ...

On the steel I'm almost always on one of two seats: An armless office chair beside the computer or a piano bench.

Neither one is ideal, but the piano and the computer are my best teachers.

Oh no, not another tone-bar thread! I managed to get through the "What tone bar do you use?" thread without spending any money, but now I think I just gotta get myself a new bar.

I bought ...

Thanks for sharing that Terry. I think I'll order a set, the picks I'm using now start to get painful after about 20 minutes.
Did you get the brass or stainless ones?

I have always admired my fellow musicians who know more theory than I do.

With a few exceptions, my experience has been that those who are very knowledgeable on theory are also damn good musicians. ...

I'm not addicted to the steel guitar, I just gotta play one everyday.

... would you really, in everyday conversation, say "that pianist used two piani during the concert, and he played in man ...

I play for an hour or so almost everyday. Sometimes I actually learn something.

Sometimes I just noodle and don't try to learn anything.

Dom said:I think the non-pedal steel is keeping my mind e ...

When Hartley Peavey said the "Power Slide" can be played conventionaly, surely he meant as a slide or bottleneck guitar. I don't think that instrument would be playable as a Spanish guitar, ...

Doug, that is a nice take on that tune!

Very tonally diverse with nice phrasing. A pleasure to listen to.

At about 1:25 it almost sounds like a muted trumpet. How, if I may ask, did you accompli ...

"Basic C6th Nonpedal Lap Steel Method" by DeWitt Scott teaches lap steel using tab and music notation. It is available right here on the forum and would be a good place to start. (Click on & ...

I've never worked with rosewood, but that is a beautiful piece of wood Tom.

I think you'de be crazy not to build a steel guitar out of it.

... Is there anyway that the videos can be made downloadable? I wonder if there might be others in the same situation.

I am. You can go [url=http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/]here to download Y ...

What's wrong with carrying pocket combs?

You're talking about the

I've come across this product before. Then, as now, I just wonder: Why?

Beautiful tone on that guitar Kurt.

Your composition made me think of Christmas, not sure why. Maybe the Ionian mode took me there.

Nicely done.

What a great thread. Playing slants, besides being a lot of fun, really seems to grap the attention of people when I play, they say things like, "I didn't know you could angle the slide thing lik ...

... there were no tuners in the 1st and, tenth positions, I beleive he wanted more distance after the nut for sustain.

That's interesting Lee, can someone explain how a longer distance after the ...

Thanks Doug,

Very tasty!

I think I understand where you're coming from Ron, but I gotta disagree.

I am not a HSGA member, but what's wrong with an organization offering benefits to their members?

HSGA already offers a l ...

I've looked at this site (2Kool4Skool) before, and found their nomenclature to be confusing.

It seems like somebody in the business of selling steel guitars would be a little more careful about tha ...

Yikes.

I'm a beginning steeler, I'm old, and I've been heavily influenced "by the sounds of Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan, ..." Not to mention blues artists like Muddy Waters, Walter Jacobs and ...

Thanks for the response Bob.
Really nice workmanship on that Strat.

James,
I highly recommend the "Slant Bar Practice" tabs posted on Rick's site. Most of them are for C6/A7 tuning, but all you have to do is raise the 6th string a half step to C#.

Beside ...

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Topic: Homemade Guitars Showcase
Keith Wells Replies: 138 Views: 125570	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 14 May 2008 6:13 pm Subject: Homemade Guitars Showcase
Keith Wells Replies: 138 Views: 125570	Let's see some crude ones too! I can do that! http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix/6669_KeithsSteel_1.jpg Mahogany body, brass nut and bridge, DeArmand 2000 pickup, stainless cover plat ...
Topic: Aloha to steel guitar at the Halekulani Hotel?
Keith Wells Replies: 40 Views: 15049	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 May 2008 1:50 pm Subject: Aloha to steel guitar at the Halekulani Hotel?
Keith Wells Replies: 40 Views: 15049	Wait a minute. How can it be the tourists' fault that some hotel's management is scrimping on thier entertainment budget? Isn't it the tourists that make the hotels happen in the first place? And n ...
Topic: Fanned scale lap steel, what are your thoughts?
Keith Wells Replies: 50 Views: 37471	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 28 Apr 2008 7:28 pm Subject: Fanned scale lap steel, what are your thoughts?
Keith Wells Replies: 50 Views: 37471	I see no reason a fanned scale wouldn't work on a steel guitar. Possibly very well. I hope you build it and give us a full report! Does anybody here have any experience with a fan-fretted steel? ...
Topic: What do you sit on?
Keith Wells Replies: 28 Views: 10534	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 25 Apr 2008 4:19 pm Subject: What do you sit on?
Keith Wells Replies: 28 Views: 10534	On the steel I'm almost always on one of two seats: An armless office chair beside the computer or a piano bench. Neither one is ideal, but the piano and the computer are my best teachers.
Topic: Tribo-tone Bar - WOW!
Keith Wells Replies: 51 Views: 18789	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 Apr 2008 4:22 pm Subject: Tribo-tone Bar - WOW!
Keith Wells Replies: 51 Views: 18789	Oh no, not another tone-bar thread! I managed to get through the "What tone bar do you use?" thread without spending any money, but now I think I just gotta get myself a new bar. I bought ...
Topic: Finally......comfortable fingerpicks!
Keith Wells Replies: 13 Views: 5719	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Apr 2008 1:35 pm Subject: Finally......comfortable fingerpicks!
Keith Wells Replies: 13 Views: 5719	Thanks for sharing that Terry. I think I'll order a set, the picks I'm using now start to get painful after about 20 minutes. Did you get the brass or stainless ones?
Topic: By ear or theory
Keith Wells Replies: 16 Views: 4634	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 Apr 2008 7:49 pm Subject: By ear or theory
Keith Wells Replies: 16 Views: 4634	I have always admired my fellow musicians who know more theory than I do. With a few exceptions, my experience has been that those who are very knowledgeable on theory are also damn good musicians. ...
Topic: Do you find lapsteel addicting?............
Keith Wells Replies: 34 Views: 7116	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 Apr 2008 6:53 pm Subject: Do you find lapsteel addicting?............
Keith Wells Replies: 34 Views: 7116	I'm not addicted to the steel guitar, I just gotta play one everyday. ... would you really, in everyday conversation, say "that pianist used two piani during the concert, and he played in man ...
Topic: How much do you practice? (If at all)
Keith Wells Replies: 15 Views: 4299	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 9 Mar 2008 11:17 am Subject: How much do you practice? (If at all)
Keith Wells Replies: 15 Views: 4299	I play for an hour or so almost everyday. Sometimes I actually learn something. Sometimes I just noodle and don't try to learn anything. Dom said:I think the non-pedal steel is keeping my mind e ...
Topic: New "Standup" Lap Steel From Peavey
Keith Wells Replies: 33 Views: 15182	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Feb 2008 3:18 pm Subject: New "Standup" Lap Steel From Peavey
Keith Wells Replies: 33 Views: 15182	When Hartley Peavey said the "Power Slide" can be played conventionaly, surely he meant as a slide or bottleneck guitar. I don't think that instrument would be playable as a Spanish guitar, ...
Topic: Would this be at all fun?
Keith Wells Replies: 237 Views: 101766	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 15 Feb 2008 4:20 pm Subject: Would this be at all fun?
Keith Wells Replies: 237 Views: 101766	Doug, that is a nice take on that tune! Very tonally diverse with nice phrasing. A pleasure to listen to. At about 1:25 it almost sounds like a muted trumpet. How, if I may ask, did you accompli ...
Topic: reading music
Keith Wells Replies: 4 Views: 2424	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 14 Feb 2008 3:01 pm Subject: reading music
Keith Wells Replies: 4 Views: 2424	"Basic C6th Nonpedal Lap Steel Method" by DeWitt Scott teaches lap steel using tab and music notation. It is available right here on the forum and would be a good place to start. (Click on & ...
Topic: Anyone Like Rosewood?
Keith Wells Replies: 23 Views: 6717	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Dec 2007 9:13 am Subject: Anyone Like Rosewood?
Keith Wells Replies: 23 Views: 6717	I've never worked with rosewood, but that is a beautiful piece of wood Tom. I think you'de be crazy not to build a steel guitar out of it.
Topic: Would this be at all fun?
Keith Wells Replies: 237 Views: 101766	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Nov 2007 6:54 pm Subject: Would this be at all fun?
Keith Wells Replies: 237 Views: 101766	... Is there anyway that the videos can be made downloadable? I wonder if there might be others in the same situation. I am. You can go [url=http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/]here to download Y ...
Topic: Oink-Tone bars
Keith Wells Replies: 18 Views: 6782	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 Nov 2007 2:14 pm Subject: Oink-Tone bars
Keith Wells Replies: 18 Views: 6782	What's wrong with carrying pocket combs?
Topic: lap steel: not just for music anymore
Keith Wells Replies: 5 Views: 2441	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 6 Nov 2007 5:03 pm Subject: lap steel: not just for music anymore
Keith Wells Replies: 5 Views: 2441	You're talking about the I've come across this product before. Then, as now, I just wonder: Why?
Topic: My First CruzTone Recording
Keith Wells Replies: 11 Views: 5027	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 11 Oct 2007 9:33 am Subject: My First CruzTone Recording
Keith Wells Replies: 11 Views: 5027	Beautiful tone on that guitar Kurt. Your composition made me think of Christmas, not sure why. Maybe the Ionian mode took me there. Nicely done.
Topic: Slants vs Pedals
Keith Wells Replies: 59 Views: 17252	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 9 Oct 2007 9:09 pm Subject: Slants vs Pedals
Keith Wells Replies: 59 Views: 17252	What a great thread. Playing slants, besides being a lot of fun, really seems to grap the attention of people when I play, they say things like, "I didn't know you could angle the slide thing lik ...
Topic: Jerry Byrd's Fender and Sho-Bud
Keith Wells Replies: 11 Views: 4390	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 6 Oct 2007 6:55 pm Subject: Jerry Byrd's Fender and Sho-Bud
Keith Wells Replies: 11 Views: 4390	... there were no tuners in the 1st and, tenth positions, I beleive he wanted more distance after the nut for sustain. That's interesting Lee, can someone explain how a longer distance after the ...
Topic: Crying In The Chapel - C6 lap steel
Keith Wells Replies: 2 Views: 2221	Forum Section: Tablature Posted: 5 Oct 2007 4:35 am Subject: Crying In The Chapel - C6 lap steel
Keith Wells Replies: 2 Views: 2221	Thanks Doug, Very tasty!
Topic: C6 Primer - Power Point Slide Show - Kay Das
Keith Wells Replies: 53 Views: 19738	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 29 Sep 2007 2:10 pm Subject: C6 Primer - Power Point Slide Show - Kay Das
Keith Wells Replies: 53 Views: 19738	I think I understand where you're coming from Ron, but I gotta disagree. I am not a HSGA member, but what's wrong with an organization offering benefits to their members? HSGA already offers a l ...
Topic: Weissinborn look a like ?
Keith Wells Replies: 8 Views: 3457	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 25 Sep 2007 1:54 pm Subject: Weissinborn look a like ?
Keith Wells Replies: 8 Views: 3457	I've looked at this site (2Kool4Skool) before, and found their nomenclature to be confusing. It seems like somebody in the business of selling steel guitars would be a little more careful about tha ...
Topic: Open slot on the 2007 HSGA Joliet Schedule -Someone grab it!
Keith Wells Replies: 54 Views: 14405	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 Sep 2007 5:28 am Subject: Open slot on the 2007 HSGA Joliet Schedule -Someone grab it!
Keith Wells Replies: 54 Views: 14405	Yikes. I'm a beginning steeler, I'm old, and I've been heavily influenced "by the sounds of Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan, ..." Not to mention blues artists like Muddy Waters, Walter Jacobs and ...
Topic: Lap Steel - The Steelocaster
Keith Wells Replies: 20 Views: 11074	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Sep 2007 6:48 pm Subject: Lap Steel - The Steelocaster
Keith Wells Replies: 20 Views: 11074	Thanks for the response Bob. Really nice workmanship on that Strat.
Topic: First and most important slants to learn in C6?
Keith Wells Replies: 12 Views: 4859	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 21 Sep 2007 3:12 pm Subject: First and most important slants to learn in C6?
Keith Wells Replies: 12 Views: 4859	James, I highly recommend the "Slant Bar Practice" tabs posted on Rick's site. Most of them are for C6/A7 tuning, but all you have to do is raise the 6th string a half step to C#. Beside ...