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Topic: Mint Condition double 8 multi chord? Price |
Josh Yenne
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Sonoma California
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Posted 1 Aug 2013 12:06 pm |
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| Looking at a crazy good condition Multi Chord... any idea what a fair price is? |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 1 Aug 2013 1:55 pm
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I'd say $500, tops, since it's really a single-neck pedal guitar, augmented with a non-pedal Hawaiian neck. For singles, it's more like $350-$400, tops.
Uninformed players sometimes pay crazy money for these, but they're just not that practical for regular playing. |
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2013 2:58 pm
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There is a reason it is mint.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 1 Aug 2013 3:02 pm
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Could be worth thousands if Buddy Emmons assembled it
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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James Wolf
From:
Georgia
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Posted 1 Aug 2013 3:54 pm
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
Could be worth thousands if Buddy Emmons assembled it
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Lol. I like what ya did there. let's start at ten grand |
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Danny James
From:
Summerfield Florida USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2013 11:55 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
I'd say $500, tops, since it's really a single-neck pedal guitar, augmented with a non-pedal Hawaiian neck. For singles, it's more like $350-$400, tops.
Uninformed players sometimes pay crazy money for these, but they're just not that practical for regular
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I agree with Donny. By the way I have seen you make several posts about Multi-Kords over the years, and as you know I usually agree with you. I was just wondering, if you have ever owned a Multi-Kord or played one Hawaiian style as Harlin Brothers had them originally set up?
Harlins advertised their Multi-Kords as a Hawaiian pedal steel guitar, and most "Country" steelers never cared for them.
Multi-Kords were designed in a way to keep the cost low enough that they were affordable to new students. Harlin's did a lot to promote music to the young people. That is something that I don't hear much being done in today's world.
My second Multi-Kord which was a 6 string 6 pedal, I bought new from Jay Harlin for $198.00 back in about 1961. My first one my father bought for me in 1948. It had an all cast aluminum body and was a 4 pedal 6 string. I still have both of them. |
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Jay Yuskaitis
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2013 12:14 pm
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| I have a "six string, six pedal" Multi Kord I took in trade many years ago. It is homely, no, plain ugly, the colors, but it sounds great. If'n it's used as planned, I don't think you can go wrong. Back when I started, A Gibson Pedal Guitar was a dream. Times and tastes change, but not for the better! Jay Y. edit, Guess we all thought all those "gizmos" would help us sound better! Nothing ever changes very much, does it? |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 3 Aug 2013 3:31 am
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| I agree, Danny. Jay had all the right ideas, but they just weren't executed in the best way on the mass produced models. Cost was important when people made far less, and corners were cut to make them light and cheap. His guitars were impressive, though, if you took them in the right context - sorta the Red Barons and Mavericks of the day. Back then, there were music programs for youngsters on steel guitar, and many other instruments as well. Before TV came along, there wasn't too much in the area of home entertainment, and from the early 1900's up through the 1950's it was almost expected that people have some sort of musical training. |
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Danny James
From:
Summerfield Florida USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2013 5:13 pm
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Donny, back in the day of Harlin's Multi-Kord, Harlin's were using the Oahu method of Tablature, but not only that in Classes we were taught how to read notes from sheet music, and to do our own transposing from note to tablature.
I was just listening to an instrutional CD from Scotties from St. Louis, (De Witt Scott) today and on it he said the professional Steel Guitar players know how to read music, and also they know how to use the Nashville numbers system.
Now for anyone who can read music and transpose to tablature, switching from a Multi-Kord to a modern Country Prdal Steel guitar should be no problem, as the exact same principals would apply. You would just have more and better options for beautiful chord combinations.
I hope both of these methods do not become a lost art, and somehow talented Steelers, will take on the challenge of promoting reading music & actually teaching young people on the Pedal Steel Guitar.
We need to keep our young people busy and off the street. |
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