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Topic: Guitar & Steel Guitar = Pedal Guitar |
Zane King
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Posted 19 Sep 2015 8:42 am |
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Some of you have seen this before but I thought it would be good to throw this back out there. I edited this video to highlight a bit of what this instrument can sound like. What it is....an 8 string electric guitar placed on top of a steel guitar body. I have an E tuning on it. It has 4 floor pedals and 4 knee levers. Basically, any experienced steel guitarist can set down to this thing and begin to make sense of it. I don't guess ultimately you would call this a Pedal Steel Guitar or anything nor do I think it is an advancement of our Pedal Steels. I just see it as something completely different.
For those of you, who may recall, many years ago I had Gene Fields put a fretboard underneath one of my steels. That works okay but I found by doing it this way you really get the action needed on the guitar and then you can just simply add the pedal and knee levers. Hey, I get this is not the most sexy looking instrument and you still play it sitting down. Yet, if a person had the time and talent this thing is full of music and sounds that likely are untapped. 
Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6w39nobMrU&feature=youtu.be
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Email: zaneking@me.com
Last edited by Zane King on 19 Sep 2015 3:05 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 19 Sep 2015 1:15 pm
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"Fingers" King. 
The gui makes more sense as the video goes along with the choice of material. Selections three and four seem well suited to me,
but the opening closing shots, with the lowest camera angle, appear like a mad scientist in his studio. The higher the angle, seeing the pedals,
the better it looks. Yeah, I know, there's always a critic....
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Zane King
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Posted 19 Sep 2015 2:59 pm
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Thanks Charlie for the feedback. I agree completely. I'm updating the video a bit. Take a look at that same link in just a bit.
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Zane King
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2015 6:32 pm
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Doug Livingston has had a fretted front neck on his GFI for years.
Several others have created similar things - many have multiple palm pedals, some floor units, some combo Hipshot/palm units.
Personally, on fretted guitar I found anything more than a B-bender was redundant - other positions could either be handled with manual bends or just sounded better on a regular pedal steel.
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1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional |
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Bud Angelotti
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Larryville, NJ, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2015 4:38 am
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There you go again Zane.
Breaking all the rules.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 26 Sep 2015 7:09 am
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No matter what, I do get a big kick out of your playing and watching it.
Off topic, but I'm really looking hard at your top four chromatic notes on S-10.... |
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Tony Dingus
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Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2015 7:56 am
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Sweet , Zane. Have you tried a bottle neck slide ? I did see or I think I saw a dobro bars laying in front of the neck.
Tony |
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