| Author |
Topic: Lap Steel With a Bow |
Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
|
Posted 11 Oct 2009 10:41 am |
|
| Has anyone ever tried playing a lap steel with a violin bow ? (To get at the centre strings you would have to modify the bridge.) |
|
|
 |
Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
|
Posted 11 Oct 2009 2:59 pm Alan, you do have an inquisitive mind!
|
|
Since I was just a kid, the older, adult musicians were always figuring out how to tease me on dance nights.
The fiddle player once rubbed rosin all over my strings. WHAT TERRIBLE NOISES that PRODUCED! AND, it didn't come off easily.
Now, about that bow................ |
|
|
|
Bryan Daste
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 12:34 am
|
|
| I did once just for a sound effect in a song. It was pretty cool, but not very musical. |
|
|
|
Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 5:24 pm
|
|
| One of Tom Bradshaw's magazines's has, I think, Gary Hogue doing this though It may have been Pedal steel. |
|
|
|
Jamie O'Connell
From:
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 7:06 pm
|
|
| It would probably be easier (and cleaner) with an eBow -- you know those electronic devices that stimulate the strings with a magnetic field. I wonder how hard it'd be to hold while wearing picks? Thanks for the idea! |
|
|
|
Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 7:41 pm
|
|
| Jamie O'Connell wrote: |
| I wonder how hard it'd be to hold while wearing picks? |
I've used an Ebow live, no problem at all.
_________________
"Play to express, not to impress"
Website - YouTube |
|
|
|
Mark Bracewell
From:
Willow Glen, California
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 10:29 pm
|
|
In one of the magazines you can get when you become a forum member there's an article about a pedal player who used a bow for some effects - can't recall the name of the fellow, maybe the guy from Flying Burrito Brothers?
I make bows, there's a bunch lying around here, I never used one on a lap steel, maybe for the same reason I don't like going to the dentist 
I guess the technique would be not unlike the Daxophone ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RmKTASJufc ) I make those too - I played one at the Maker Fair last year - a little girl said "Mommy, what is that thing, and why is it making that horrible noise?"
Made my day. |
|
|
|
Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
|
Posted 12 Oct 2009 11:14 pm
|
|
| Jamie O'Connell wrote: |
| It would probably be easier (and cleaner) with an eBow -- you know those electronic devices that stimulate the strings with a magnetic field. I wonder how hard it'd be to hold while wearing picks? |
Bill Elm from Friends Of Dean Martinez uses an EBow on his lap steels a lot of the time. |
|
|
|
Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
|
Posted 13 Oct 2009 12:21 am
|
|
Interesting experiment,but beware of that rosin
residue...it counteracts a Steel player´s optimal
string surface condition by creating severe fricton.
McUtsi |
|
|
|
Anders Eriksson
From:
Mora, Dalecarlia, Sweden
|
Posted 13 Oct 2009 12:40 am
|
|
It's been done on a regular guitar, so why not on a lap?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRfR8AIVVAg
// Anders
_________________
Fessenden D-10, Stage One S-10, Peavey Nashville 112, Boss LMB-3, Goodrich 120; Regal RD-38VS Resonator |
|
|
|
Mark Mansueto
From:
Michigan, USA
|
|
|
|
C. Brattain
From:
Balch Springs, Texas, usa
|
|
|
|
