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Topic: Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar,slide or steel? |
Alexander Stepanenko
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Moscow, Russia
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Posted 29 Jan 2013 10:32 pm |
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| Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar, slide or steel? As you say? |
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Edward Meisse
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Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2013 10:57 pm
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I don't understand the question. Suspect your english may be faulty.
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 12:02 am
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Alex, all are correct, but I think most of us in U.S. or Canada call it a steel. Tone bar is quite common too. We would understand what you meant by any of those names.
Edit: After a good nights sleep, I'll change my reply.
The most common term is simply "bar".
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 2:45 am Just curious?
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Alex,what kind of music did you first hear steel guitar on,Hawaiian or Western Swing? 
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 4:08 am
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Hi Alexander. Your question is valid today.
When I took Hawaiian guitar lessons in 1948 in Halifax, it was only called a "steeL'. I think because over those years, the material was not only steel, the word "bar" was more appropriate.
Today, a style of playing and the guitar is often referred to as "playing slide guitar", and the "bar" is sometimes called the "slide"!!!!
What music do you play?
George
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Tony Lombardo
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Alabama, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 5:59 am
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By process of elimination I call mine a bar. I eliminated "steel" from the title because mine is made of some sort of polymer, and I eliminated "tone" because my tone is so bad. (That's 100% my fault, not the bar's.) Maybe in a year or so I'll allow myself to call it a tone bar if my tone improves significant;y.
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Thomas Temple
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Florida, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 6:57 am By any other name
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Tony,
Using your logic... which I can't fault I think I'd better starting calling mine a squack bar. |
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Alexander Stepanenko
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Moscow, Russia
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 9:32 am
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Hi Alexander. Yes, as time goes on names get changed. Look at the pictures below. This is from one of my books copyrighted 1916.
There's Mr. Peterson himself all decked out. Look at this bar hand, it looks like the bar is in a "tilt" position but his fingers are all spread out!!!!!!!!!
Lots of fun.
Geo
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Alexander Stepanenko
From:
Moscow, Russia
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 11:00 am
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George Rout,thanks!
it is a steel
it is a slide
It,s a tone bar
Is it correct?[/img] |
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jan 2013 11:33 am
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Hi Alexander:
The top pic is a 1. steel, OR 2. (tone)bar, OR 3. slide
The center pic is a 1. glass slide
The bottom pic is the same as the top pic.
George
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