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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 8 Apr 2012 4:06 pm |
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Here of late I've moved into the KISS mode (keep it simple stupid). Our service at the little wooden church on the hill started 15 minutes early this Easter morning to allow for special music. My daughter and I contributed.
My daughter played her autoharp and I played my Goldtone lap steel.
What great fun and a blessing to all. 
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 9 Apr 2012 9:37 am
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I'd bet that was a good sounding combination. Thanks for sharing!
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Apr 2012 9:44 am
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Brad,
Yes, it was fun!
I give my daughter a bad time and call her Mother Maybell after the matriarch of the Carter family who played an autoharp.
My wife says: "Why didn't you just learn to play the harmonica" when I start dragging out my equipment.
This is as close as I can come!  |
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Steve Green
From:
Gulfport, MS, USA
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2012 6:14 am
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Steve,
I guess I'm stuck in kind of a rut.
When I started on lap steel, Hawaiian music was the rage and one of the tunings for Hawaiian was A, high bass.
When it comes to 6 string steel, I still, pretty much, stick with that tuning. Nothing fancy and I guess this is another example of KISS!
It's like the G tuning for dobro only one tone higher. There was a dobro player on the Grand Ole Opry that used this tuning also. It could have been Cousin Jody, but I'm not sure. |
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Steve Green
From:
Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2012 10:24 am
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Would that be
1. e
2. c#
3. a
4. E
5. C#
6. A
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2012 11:14 am
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Steve,
Yes, that's correct.
Most of the instructional material that Oahu made up years ago was written for that tuning. |
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