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Terry VunCannon
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 12:00 pm |
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OK...I know almost all of you have a collection of Tone Bars & Slides. Lets see them....just lay 'em out, and click a picture with you phone or camera. Here is mine...
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John Booth
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Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 12:34 pm
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Looks like ya don't have one of these friend 
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 12:41 pm
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| No John I don't. Nice...brass? |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 1:32 pm
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Yes, brass.
Check him out from 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFWf1UFU9_w
PM me if you want to add this bar to your fine collection.
I don't really need it.
JB
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Tony Lombardo
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 3:27 pm
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I have three Tribotone B Weight Bars in lime green. That's all I've got.
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 4:45 pm
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| Thanks John. PM sent. I am also searching for Bakelite bars. |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2015 4:46 pm
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Lots of lap/dobro bars. I only play pedal.
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John Speck
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 8:00 pm tone bars
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Here are the ones I have. The Stevens is from 1964. I bought while on a high school band trip in Memphis. That was my first. The last one is the one with the cone shaped butt end. I don't know the brand and I think it is stainless. Does anybody know.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 11:55 pm
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This is probably about 2/3 of mine - I get a little fiendy about slide guitar, too, and this pix lacks a lot of experiments in forging the perfect pinky slide. And another half-dozen bars or so. Pray tell, where did you get the all-brass Shubb-Pearse bars?
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Jouni Karvonen
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 7:25 am
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| David, I got my brass SP-1 & SP-2 bars from Shubb. Special ordered. I had them pulled out of stock before they covered them. It's a 2 step process, they get the brass bars in, and send them off to be covered. They were kind enough to get them to me all brass, uncoated. |
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Lev Liberman
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 11:02 am
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Terry, what is the bar in the bottom right corner of your photo -- the one with the matte-silver finish (aluminum?) & the SP-1-ish profile? And where/how can I get one?
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Terry VunCannon
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 12:13 pm
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That one is an Aluminum bar in SP-1 shape that Wayne Johnson of Innovative Guitars made for me by request. I call it my "TV-1" bar...he does great work Lev.
You can find him here...
http://www.innovativeguitars.com/ |
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Lev Liberman
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 12:22 pm
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Thank you, Terry. And I see that he's located in the great state of Oregon!
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Michael Hogan
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 1:55 pm
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Here are some unusual bars and some in their original packaging.
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 4:06 pm
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Wow, you guys got some great bars 
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GFI S10 Ultra, Telecaster, a Hound Dog, and an Annoyed Wife
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Jacob Hacker
From:
Tucson, Arizona
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 4:34 pm
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The one on the left is a 7/8" x 3 1/4" Dunlop Bar. The one on the right is a 1" Diameter x 3 1/2 bar i made myself. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2015 5:44 pm
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Now That's cool !
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Mark Roeder
From:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 10:16 am
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Doug
How usable is that bar with the slide extension? It looks like someone was thinking about it alot.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 27 Jan 2015 9:40 am
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Mark, it's not very usable because it's not smooth sounding. When you press down on the extension part (what I call the mini-bar) the little bar makes contact with one string and pushes it down below the main bar, creating a flatted note. The pitch change is heard instantly, it's not a smooth change. And that clip for the finger inhibits and restrains a player's bar movement.
So two bars are in effect at the same time, the main bar and the mini-bar. I tried using it to lower the 3rd tone (major to minor chord), but it sounds too choppy. Basically, it's an early, futile attempt to mechanically change the pitch of a string. I think a player would be better off learning how to do slants properly. The slants sound better.
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Mark Roeder
From:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2015 9:54 am
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That is what I thought. It is fun to see what inventive ideas come up over the years. They all seem to be a substitute for what some good practicing would accomplish.
Cool though!
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 27 Feb 2015 1:57 pm
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From ebay
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