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Topic: Lap Steel or hand pedal steel? |
Kjell Helde
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Posted 28 Feb 2011 2:00 pm |
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Hi guys.
Found this on the youtube, this is fantastic. 
I`m starting to build my own 8 strings lapsteel. 
No, I got some new ideas. Great guitar and sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TdapBSJ-fI
Kjell.
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Joel Johnston
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Mead, Washington, USA
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Posted 28 Feb 2011 5:44 pm Interesting Kjell . . .
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| It is amazing that someone had not thought of putting a Bigsby Bar type of string bending arrangement like that on a Lap Steel much sooner, considering how long the lap steel has been around! Thanks for posting that interesting video Kjell and good luck with your own ideas. |
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Ben Cartwright
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 28 Feb 2011 5:50 pm
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This is amazing. I would imagine my feet would be trying to hit the ghost pedals every time I used the bar bender. This also makes me really appreciate steel players that have mastered slants where they can slant so well in tune it sounds just like a pedal.
The capo is a great idea too. Cool instrument. Probably costs as much as a nice S10 pedal steel though eh? |
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Matthew Warman
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here and now
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David Hartley
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 3:15 am Hi Chello
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I like the idea of the capo.
You probably won't want that old Franklin when you buy or make one of these pedal laps.
I will pick it up in August and get it out of your way for you.
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Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 12:01 pm
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That is real cool. Do you think that's a lap/Dobro tuning, or something else?
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Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 12:06 pm
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Which makes me think. Does Bigsby make a bar that just drops certain strings? Most Whammy's drop all 6 on yer strat, or whatever. If so, why not just install a Bigsby on a lap steel?
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2011 1:52 pm Re: Interesting Kjell . . .
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| Joel Johnston wrote: |
| It is amazing that someone had not thought of putting a Bigsby Bar type of string bending arrangement like that on a Lap Steel much sooner, considering how long the lap steel has been around! Thanks for posting that interesting video Kjell and good luck with your own ideas. |
People have been retrofitting lap steels with HipShot string benders for a long time. I first played one that a friend of mine made about 25 years ago. Production lap steels with benders are pretty rare, though. There isn't a huge market for them.
Notice how, while the bends sound like A+B pedals, the tone of the Duesenberg lap steel doesn't have the richness and sustain of a real pedal steel. It would be okay for playing in an Americana or country-rock band, but it's not the right tone for most country music.
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Posted 3 Mar 2011 4:04 pm
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Some variations.
I had more but can't find them today.
James. |
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