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seldomfed
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Posted 10 Nov 2007 2:18 pm |
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Amazing new bar 
Who's sick of playing "Margaritaville" for the 10,000th time? Not me that's for sure. I love it.
Ok, here's a trick you probably already know. I was jamming on stage with this guy a few years back and in the middle of the song he pulled a pocket comb out of his back pocket and started using it for a bar!(yes some people other than my uncle still carry pocket combs and pocket knives). The tone was sort of like a honky tonk piano (with tacks), and sort of like steel drums, and sort of, well,... wierd, and cool at the same time. I can only describe the sound as 'oink'.
I finally decided to create my own 'oink tone' bar. It took me a while to design and perfect this bar, and now you can have one for your very own!... for the low low price of - nothing.
After much study and extensive testing, I cut a chunk of 3/4" PVC pipe to the exact length of a Jerry Byrd bar, no more, no less! This is critical! Don't screw this up. Then, I sanded down the rough edges - and bwalla. I now have my own 'oink-tone' bar. Because I refuse to carry a pocket comb, this now gives me the perfect cheezey tone I need to pretend to be a steel drum player in all the lame "parrot head, kenny cheezy, island-ville" songs we have to play every night in the C&W band. The best part is it really cracks up the guitar player.
have fun
chris (p.s. - buy stock in PVC pipe companies now because this it going to be big!) (P.s.s - next year we release the 'wooden dowel Oink Tone custom', taking orders now!)
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Chris Kennison
Rhythm Cats - steel, guitar, banjo, dobro
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.rhythmcatsshow.com
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Gary Boyett
From:
Colorado
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Posted 10 Nov 2007 3:32 pm
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What!
Are you tryin to put me out of Business???
Looks like fun, I will try it. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 10 Nov 2007 3:53 pm
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| better use plain or flat wound with that....... |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 10 Nov 2007 5:04 pm
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Carrying a pocket comb?!?! I resemble that remark  |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Nov 2007 3:36 am
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Chris, I'll take one - how much$?
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Delvin Morgan
From:
Lindstrom, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2007 10:03 am
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| I have used a 1" wooden dowel for certain tones for a while. Different, but not bad. On the pedal steel that is. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2007 4:18 pm
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| Try playing with a ping-pong ball, the cats love it. |
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Jon Moen
From:
Canada
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Posted 11 Nov 2007 6:29 pm
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I saw a guy a little over 30 years ago playing a pedal steel using a plastic pen for a bar. As I recall it made it sound like a banjo. Has anyone heard of that?
I know b0b would probably think that was a waste of time.
Jon |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 11 Nov 2007 6:34 pm
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| I've used a bic lighter to get calypso type sounds. |
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Eric Ebner
From:
Texas Republic
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Posted 12 Nov 2007 9:05 am
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I saw some Hindustani players in the mid 90's play with a bar exactly like that (minus the logo)! Great concert... very reverent. This 'slide' concert was put on by the Austin area Indian Arts Foundation. I can't recall the name of the artists at the moment but did post a review on the IGS at the time. They played what I would consider the far east predecessor to the oink-tone
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seldomfed
From:
Colorado
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 11:39 am
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Bic lighter! cool - yes that would work for oink-tone. Ya, banjo, steel drums, honkytonk piano are all simulated with oink-tone, - depends how you pick it.
If you do some Travis style stuff (alt-thumb) it's sort of like stride piano, do some rolls and be a banjo, or just play two note rhythmic things and be a steel drum -
As the professor would say , "use the think system" ! , think like a banjo player and you'll be sounding like a banjo.
...on second thought, never mind, who want to sound like a bajno 
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Chris Kennison
Rhythm Cats - steel, guitar, banjo, dobro
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.rhythmcatsshow.com
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seldomfed
From:
Colorado
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 11:40 am
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Bic lighter! cool - yes that would work for oink-tone. Ya, banjo, steel drums, honkytonk piano are all simulated with oink-tone, - depends how you pick it.
If you do some Travis style stuff (alt-thumb) it's sort of like stride piano, do some rolls and be a banjo, or just play two note rhythmic things and be a steel drum -
As the professor Harold Hill would say , "use the think system" ! , think like a banjo player and you'll be sounding like a banjo.
...on second thought, never mind, who want to sound like a bajno
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Chris Kennison
Rhythm Cats - steel, guitar, banjo, dobro
Gold Canyon, AZ
www.rhythmcatsshow.com
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 11:52 am
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| With the bic you have the option of getting weird sounds from the metal guard, you can pull off using the end like a Stevens bar... I even got a sitar sound by laying the lighter flat. I like toys... |
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 1:46 pm
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| BUT, can you create a bullet-nose version? |
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Keith Wells
From:
South Carolina Sea Islands
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 2:14 pm
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What's wrong with carrying pocket combs?
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 2:41 pm
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| A pocket comb would, in my case, be superfluous... |
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Chris Drew
From:
Bristol, UK
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Posted 13 Nov 2007 4:07 pm
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Me too, I may try the handle of my beard brush...
Or maybe a frozen chippolata, as it thaws you'd get a unique change in tone.
My cat would find that more interesting than a ping-pong ball, as she is rather old.
Hmm, a beer-fuelled post if ever I saw one! 
I should go and record a "Pork Guitar Rag"... |
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Charley Wilder
From:
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2007 8:07 am
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| Like a lot of the posters I've fiddled around with different slides over the years. I use glass and brass bottle neck slides quite often still. I used a Zippo lighter to finish a set once because I dropped my bar and the stage was real dark and I was in the middle of a tune. That was back in my drinking days. "Adaptation is the esscence of strategy" (Or was that tactics, I can never remember) |
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