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Topic: Will be at NAMM Anaheim CA Sunday January 16th |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 15 Jan 2011 10:40 pm |
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If anyone plans to be at the NAMM show and wishes to meet, e-mail me before 8am PDT or during the day; I will check e-mail from time to time..
Kay |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 15 Jan 2011 10:51 pm
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Have a great time, Kay!
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 3:42 pm
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I went on Friday. I did not see a single steel guitar, other than a few cheapo lap steels. My feet sure got sore, however. : )
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 4:02 pm
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Moog has a lap steel!
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Marc Jenkins
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 16 Jan 2011 5:50 pm
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Duesenberg and Breedlove had stel guitars as well.
I spoke at length with the folks at ZT about adding a mid control to their Club to help entice steel players as well. The are coming out with a 400 watt bass amp (sounded great!) as well. |
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Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 17 Jan 2011 7:41 pm
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NAMM was a lot of fun. A huge variety of guitars, woods, synthetics, tones, shapes, sizes....where I started from (Hall E and then backwards to Hall A). Software technology has found a perfect partner in the music industry. The iPad has been embraced by the musical community to an extent that, there are now available stands which can stack multiple iPads. Applications galore from sheet music to tabs to music theory to audio sound control with its interactive display. I was able, on a product called "Jammit", to download a score complete with tabs and chords and even backing, and jam to it with a guitar. You can even buy the original multi-track backing of tunes. Sampled sounds of great complexities are now available to the user in response to the quick demands of the industry. The iPad took, for me, centre-stage at NAMM 2011. You saw them everywhere. Also,interactive display technology has now found its way into the guitar body. I saw a couple of guitars with integrated displays: called, wait for it.....Video Guitars....Watch out for more innovation in the coming years, this is just the beginning, I feel.
On the amusing side, a Digital Rhythm Guitar, no need ever to tune it, with simulated strings and touch-sensitive surfaces, chords generated depending where you touched a particular surface per root note, from major to minor to dom7th ....to sus4. By suitably plucking the simulated strings you could arpeggiate or play whole chords..but that is cheating!
Ah, yes, lap steels...
Yes, the Moog people had their lap steel guitar, but I find its infinite sustain eerie..but then that's what you expect from Moog. Not many other lap steels, but quite a few good dobros, some new names joining the Beards, Goldtones and National Resophonics, and a few Weissenborns.
There was a very good jam performance staged by Tomo Fujita on guitar and Gary Morse, an excellent lap steeler from Nashville. Gary played a six-stringer standing up Junior Brown fashion) and tore it away. I personally thought he was at least as good or even better. One amusing thing: he had a technique of detuning his bottom string to music and in time to produce a pedal steel effect. That was wicked! At the end of the performance, a swarm of people came up to Gary and asked what instrument he was playing. Yes, steel guitar has a long way to go...
A mini-lap steel tuned to G# major, for the small neck was a novelty but I would not buy one for my money. A few people from Taiwan interested in lap steels, but no product yet from there.
The number of ukuleles of all shapes and sizes is on the rise compared to previous NAMMs; there was even a teaching session, unusual for NAMM. There was an emphasis on general music education, plenary sessions, products. Lots of technology available to make it difficult for anyone not to learn to play music!
Met Jim Palenscar of Steel Guitars, Oceanside CA, who is off to the Phoenix AZ steel festival next week.
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Garry Vanderlinde
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CA
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Posted 18 Jan 2011 9:21 pm
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Hi Kay,
Sorry I missed you at NAMM. I would haved enjoyed meeting up.
I did play at the Martin Guitar booth Sunday with Walden Dahl. I had my Surf-waiian non-pedal steel guitar with the Aiello 1 1/2" pup.
The day before I was at Deke's Guitar Geek Festival a half a block away.
Check it out next year. Deke is very into steel guitar and features it prominently. This year featured Jr. Brown and he was totally incredibility awesome. |
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