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Topic: My girlfriend got me an Emmons! |
Ryan Barwin
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 2:49 pm |
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Lately, I've been spending a lot of time at my girlfriend's place in Green Bay, WI, pretty much whenever I don't have gigs or other stuff to do. I can't always bring my pedal steel and it's hard not to be able to play.
So about a month ago, my girlfriend started secretly looking for one for me to play at her place. She did tons of research about steel guitars and asked me lots of questions about my favourite guitars, all the while, I was totally unsuspecting and thought she was just humoring me by pretending to be interested in my obsession, since she was asking things that nobody but a steel player would have any interest in at all. She also talked to Jonathan Cullifer a lot to find out about all my preferences in guitars/amps and advice about the different ones she found.
She'd been telling me since she started that she had a surprise for me that she was working on, and that I would love it...she gave me so many hints and I had no idea. Well, when I got to her apartment, she led me to some large objects with a sheet draped over them. I pulled off the sheet and found....
An Emmons Legrande II with 8&7, and a NV400! I'm very happy with it. Thanks to my girlfriend Andrea, (and to Jonathan for finding such a great guitar for me.)
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www.pedalsteel.ca
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Pit Lenz
From:
Cologne, Germany
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 2:57 pm
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Oh boy,
that IS true love!
lucky basterd.....  |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 3:01 pm
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| You know that you owe her - BIG TIME - don't you? |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 3:04 pm
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Ryan drop down to one knee and give her a ring! 
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 3:18 pm
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DUDE!  |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 4:02 pm
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What is her phone number?  |
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Barry Hyman
From:
upstate New York, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 4:04 pm
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First thought: Man, I've been married 25 years. If I'd known girlfriends could be that nice, I would never have gotten married.
Second thought: Now you have to buy her either a car or a boat or a house...
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I give music lessons on several different instruments in Cambridge, NY (between Bennington, VT and Albany, NY). But my true love is pedal steel. I've been obsessed with steel since 1972; don't know anything I'd rather talk about... www.barryhyman.com |
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Steven Black
From:
Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 4:20 pm Emmons guitar
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| Does she have a seeester? |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 4:24 pm
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Brother, you two need to move closer together. I couldn't imagine being away from a woman like that for more than a day.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
From:
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:01 pm
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She's a keeper!
(Uh, the girlfirend, that is. Nice steel too.)
Dan |
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Jonathan Cullifer
From:
Gallatin, TN
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:04 pm
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:04 pm
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What a happy story!
With a girl and a day like that I'd be lightin' votive candles and buyin' lottery tickets. |
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Bill Dobkins
From:
Rolla Missouri, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:16 pm
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Well my girlfriend bought me some new strings.
Really pissed my wife off. 
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Custom Rittenberry SD10
Boss Katana 100 Amp
Positive Grid Spark amp
BJS Bars
Z~Legend Pro,Custom Tele
Honor our Vet's.
Now pass the gravy. |
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Jesse Leite
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:18 pm
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That is the coolest story Ryan... nice guitar! I don't know much about Emmons, is it an all-pull or a push-pull?
PS. I have heard some interesting comparisons of steel guitars to women... I forget who, but one forum member mentioned that wife even calls his pedal steel "the other woman". Should we be disturbed that YOUR woman bought you ANOTHER woman?
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Playing an '81 BMI SD-10 4&6 through a Peavey Delta Blues 2x10 all-tube amp.
E9 Fretboard Reference Booklet (Chords & Scales PDF) |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:34 pm
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That is so hot! 
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Mark |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:34 pm
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Ryan
Seriously, a girl like that is marriage material. Listen to what Stu Schulman said and take heed.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Duncan Hodge
From:
DeLand, FL USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 5:45 pm
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Ryan, would you ask your girlfriend if she gives lessons?
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." |
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Ryan Barwin
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 6:14 pm
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Haha...I know! She's really great.
| Jesse Leite wrote: |
That is the coolest story Ryan... nice guitar! I don't know much about Emmons, is it an all-pull or a push-pull?
PS. I have heard some interesting comparisons of steel guitars to women... I forget who, but one forum member mentioned that wife even calls his pedal steel "the other woman". Should we be disturbed that YOUR woman bought you ANOTHER woman? |
 That's funny.
It's an all-pull, with 8 pedals and 7 levers.
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www.pedalsteel.ca |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 6:42 pm
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| Tomorrow is April 1st. Darned I hope this isn't a dream... |
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 6:50 pm
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Dont even think of letting this girl get away!!!!
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proud parent of a sailor
Mullen SD-10 /nashville 400
gotta love a Mullen!!!
Guitars that i have owned in order are :
Mullen SD-10,Simmons SD-10,Mullen SD-10,Zum stage one,Carter starter,
Sho-Bud Mavrick |
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Tommy R. Butler
From:
Nashville, Tennessee
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 10:24 pm
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| WoW What do u guys do for a living. Living at 2 places, travel, gear, dating. U must have good jobs. I make ten's of dollars in the music biz?? Maybe I need to rethink this whole misic biz ?? LOL |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 11:20 pm
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Bless your girlfriends heart Ryan
she's a keeper alright
she done picked a right good one too
all the best to the 3 of ya's |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
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Posted 1 Apr 2010 6:05 am
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Great...now,for the 180 degrees opposite approach...
yesterday I heard of a guy who´d purchased his first
PSG about a year ago and,just as he was beginning
to dig the thing,HIS girlfriend talked him into
selling the steel guitar because SHE wanted...a PC...
man,in 3 years from now that PC´ll be approaching
zero,or even negative,value...absolute madness.McUtsi |
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