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Topic: Ernie Ball Steel Guitars |
Egil Skjelnes
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Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 29 Mar 2011 9:45 am |
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Hi
I have a friend that own an old Ernie Ball steel.Probably from the late 60`s or early 70`s. I can`t remember I have ever seen this brand as a steel anywhere. I asume there are not many around? Anybody that can tell more about these guitars. I know about strings and volume pedals etc.,but steels???
Sincerely,Egil. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 29 Mar 2011 10:34 am
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I had seen a bunch of them at the Ernie Ball warehouse in Newport Beach,From what I remember there was some kind of law suit from someone Maybe Red Rhodes so they couldn't sell them,A patent infringement on the keyless tuner,I think they were a well made guitar,Hopefully someone else has a better brain than me. 
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 29 Mar 2011 10:46 am
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I owned one in the late 1970s. It was fine for what it was, a student model. I sold it and don't regret having done so.
Ernie Ball was a steel guitarist himself who played with Tommy Duncan among others. See http://www.ernieball.com/history for details.
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 29 Mar 2011 2:17 pm
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I spend an entire day "demo" playing them at the NAMM show in Aniheim in the late 70's. I was just going to the show through the music store I was working at and when I walked in to the EB booth and ask if I could try them out, they hired me on the spot to stay all day and just noodle around. Didn't have any tracks to play with, but I got paid and a case of E9th string sets for doing it! They were OK.
JE:-)> |
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