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Topic: "straight" lap steel question |
Ron Victoria
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 6:22 am |
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There is a lap on ebay with straight in the title. I asked the seller and he said an old timer told him it used to be a term associated with laps. I'm an old timer and never heard it. Feedback please.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 6:27 am
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They sometimes call it "straight steel", meaning no pedals.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 10:12 am
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i've always called it "straight steel" (and i'm 40) - if there was some confusion as to it being pedal- seems pretty self-explanatory.
i'm confused with all the confusion. this seems to be the hot topic these days, what everyone should universally call a steel guitar that is played without pedals.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 11:21 am It is AMAZING!
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I've been playing commercially for 69 years.....
NEVER head THAT term before now.
It's AMAZING that so much rewriting of the book has occurred since the 1970-80's.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 1:22 pm
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It is widely used. John Ely uses the term, as does Wayne Hancock and many others. Maybe it's a Texas thing, I don't know, but it is used widely whether you've heard it or not.
Google the phrase "straight steel guitar"--you'll get many results.
People here in NJ call Coca Cola soda; almost everywhere else they call it pop. I'm not really into the semantics, other than the fact that it is interesting to me that regions have their own terminologies for things and that includes the steel guitar.
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