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Tom Snook

 

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Post  Posted 19 Jun 2014 3:45 pm    
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And he seems to only use a thumb pick,there's a couple of vids of him on The Lawrence Welk Show,Sentimental Journey and another. His tuning sounds B11 ish. And now that I think about it,that was most likely my first exposure to steel guitar.We watched LW every week.
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 19 Jun 2014 5:11 pm    
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He's playing a Fender pedal steel on the LW shows. The Fender 1000 owner's manual shows E7 and A6 tunings. It also says that the pedals provide "thirty useable tunings on two necks"! In the early days the pedals were considered tuning changers, not necessarily for playing "pedal licks" like today.
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Post  Posted 19 Jun 2014 6:29 pm    
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Al Marcus said in 2005:
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He always used an E6 tuning on the Electra-Harp. from the top E-C#-B-G#-E-C#-B-G#-E, then he had what is now known as the 5-6-7 pedals on C6.He had 9 strings on his to get that low E. I always wished I had that low E. I had 8 strings on my used Electra-Harp.

and b0b has a more recent tuning from Tom Bradshaw:
http://b0b.com/tunings/rey.htm
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 20 Jun 2014 3:11 am    
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Alvino's rendition of Moonlight in Vermont.

https://soundcloud.com/aev/moonlight-in-vermont
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Tom Snook

 

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Post  Posted 20 Jun 2014 8:47 am    
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And that steel he's playing looks like the first fret is where the second fret aughta be.What's up with dat?
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