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Topic: steeling from beyond the grave |
Ben Sims
From:
New Mexico
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 3:22 pm |
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So, the way I figure this is you get two or three steel guitar players together in a dimly lit room, everyone puts a hand on the bar and concentrates - and suddenly the spirit of Sol Hoopii rips into the 12th Street Rag at record speed, jerking the players' hands wildly up and down the strings ...
(And who among us couldn't benefit from a little supernatural intervention in our guitar playing?)
Original blog posting: http://craziestgadgets.com/2008/04/23/ouija-board-guitar-contact-the-dead-while-playing-the-dead/ |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 3:45 pm
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I'd like a try at that please. 
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 4:16 pm
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That's really cool..a six string ouija board !! 
It does look nice though, and a great looking living room steel. |
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Jim Konrad
From:
The Great Black Swamp USA
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 7:44 pm
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That looks very crazy, in a good way. Does the thing that points at the letters double as the steel? Is it made of glass?
Did you build it?? |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 7 Sep 2008 11:56 pm
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gotta get me one so i can be in touch w; those that i missed out on
what a hip idea  |
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Ben Sims
From:
New Mexico
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Posted 8 Sep 2008 6:33 am
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| I didn't build it, it just happened across it on Google. |
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Greg Gefell
From:
Upstate NY
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 7:58 am
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Jim asked:
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Does the thing that points at the letters double as the steel? |
Wow - I wonder if anyone ever has made a steel where the bar is attached to a sliding rack. It could be used like a sliding capo.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 9:44 am
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| Tell me, oh spirits, will I play in tune tonight? |
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Carroll Hale
From:
EastTexas, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2008 9:50 am
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| I love it! Do you know if it's available for sale? |
I heard an old tymer say once upon a time.....
"everything is for sale....at the right price"..     |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Peter Huggins
From:
Van Nuys, California, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2013 12:18 pm
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I wanna talk to Bob Dunn
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 4 Apr 2013 6:35 pm
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I love it! But you would have to be careful, that thing could have all kinds of unknown mojo. It leaves alien abduction for dead. 
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2013 7:02 pm
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It was made by Holcombguitars. It a custom built steel and slide.
www.holcombguitars.com |
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Iestyn Lewis
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2013 5:19 am
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Greg - I had that idea too, to mount the bar on a sliding rack. That way you could actually play the guitar "backwards" with one hand only. Your picking hand doubles as your bar hand, as it rests on the slide and moves it up and down the string. I had the idea while I was holding my then newborn child with one hand and wanting to play with the other! 
Years later I came across a Youtube video of someone who had done just that, and added some kind of harp or keyboard-like thing into the mix that he played with his other hand. It was VERY impressive, but I cannot think of the right search terms now. I'll post it if I find it, it was very cool.
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Jim Pitman
From:
Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2013 5:27 am
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I like the concept of table top built in steel guitars.
I've been working on the local bar owner to let me install a "bartop" steel guitar. He built his bar top using a bowling alley lane laminate section. looks perfect for a built in steel guitar. I'd wire it into his radio/music system, perhaps an effects unit too. Fellow steel guitarist, Gordon Stone, and I meet there on occasion for a scotch. One or the other of us could entertain in trade for a pricy single malt. |
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