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Topic: Dobro Bar for steel ? |
Richard Tipple
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 6:21 pm |
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Hope this isn't a silly question, but do any steelers ever use a bar Dobro players, use. These old fingers of mine, sometimes need that little extra grip  |
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 6:31 pm
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| Quite a few of the sacred steel players do. I seem to recall Dan Tyack doing it as well, though I don't know if he was doing it exclusively. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 6:34 pm
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Shubb, a company located here in Sonoma County, CA makes the Robert Randolph bar.
Check out the website here:
http://www.shubb.com/randolph/
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Richard Tipple
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 8:05 pm
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 9:07 pm
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| I use a bar that's kinda similar-if I remember right, Billy Phelps at Full Circle Sound said it was a Sacred Steel bar, I got it at the International Steel Guitar Convention in 2003. I was playing one of the Carter steels, and John Fabian and Billy Phelps decided that because of the cerebral palsy in my left hand, I needed a bar with grooves on it and so they suggested the Sacred Steel bar, and it's my current bar. |
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L. A. Wunder
From:
Lombard, Illinois, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2014 9:35 pm
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| I use the Subb RR bar on my 10-string lapsteel. |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 1:56 am
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The Amazing Robert Randolph uses one with his 13 stringer....nuff said
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K. |
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Kenny Foy
From:
Lynnville, KY, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 12:20 pm
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| I believe uncle Don Helms used one for years. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:11 am
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I think a lot of steelers do, especially non-pedal players. It works the other way round, too: Dobro players often use cylindrical bars.
Personally, I use the same Tribotone bar for whatever I play, although I have just about every bar ever made in my "arsenal". |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 11:17 am
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I played a dobro bar once at a rehearsal, because I left the round one at home. I sounded even worse than usual. 
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Bob Knight
From:
Bowling Green KY
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 11:28 am
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These make excellent Pedal Steel Bars.
Shubb-Pearse SP-1
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Michael Maddex
From:
Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 1:55 pm
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FWIW, the SP-1 seems tailor made for my Fender 400. I don't like the bullet bars.
YMMV.
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:23 pm
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
I think a lot of steelers do, especially non-pedal players. It works the other way round, too: Dobro players often use cylindrical bars.
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I have yet to see a round bar used by a "bluegrass" player. I guess it could be done, if the round bar had a flat end, for those rapid flurries of pull-offs and hammer-ons, but I've never seen Mike Auldridge, or Jerry Douglas, Phil Ledbetter, Rob Ickes, Matt deSpain, or, well, me---use a round bar for dobro. Auldridge used a round bar for pedal steel, but switched back to that Stevens, or Beard Ergo bar, for dobro. I've been using the same Stevens bar for twenty years or more. But my BJS bar is still my pedal steel bar.
Lane Gray, are you listening? |
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 10:47 pm
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I like a BJS for pedal steel and a Scheerhorn bar for dobro, but for the Stringmaster, I like the Shubb SP-2, "Peter Grant" bar. Its somewhere in the middle.
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 2:10 am
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Want me to video me doing Pickaway with a 12 string bullet?
The bullet bar feels different, but it doesn't preclude playing that stuff with it.
EDIT: Obviously you have to turn it around to play those "snapping" licks.
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Tom Keller
From:
Greeneville, TN, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 6:08 am
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| Pete "Bashful Brother Oswald" Kirby was the only dobro player I ever saw use a rounded bar. I am not sure but Shot Jackson might of used a round bar as well. |
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