| Was pedal steel guitar your first musical instrument? |
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5% |
[ 6 ] |
| I played guitar. |
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29% |
[ 35 ] |
| I played more then one other instrument. |
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62% |
[ 74 ] |
| I played the kazoo in the prison or hospital band. |
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2% |
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Topic: How many started playing steel guitar... |
Dick Sexton
From:
Greenville, Ohio
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 6:19 pm |
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| Personally, I came to pedal steel after playing 3 different instruments. I don't think I'm unique in any way and believe most do. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 6:26 pm
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Mandolin by kindergarten
Piano lessons starting in the second grade
Guitar in 5th grade
Dobro in 10th grade
Steel in 11th.
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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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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 8:49 pm
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No selection for me. I played drums before I made the decision to switch to PSG.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Pat Chong
From:
New Mexico, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 9:07 pm
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Started with a bass, moved to guitar. Both of which I can play in a band. I have tried banjo, lap steel and mandolin, but did not get too far with any one of those. But it "clicked" when I tried pedal steel. I fiddle around with an arranger keyboard, and use it to make exercises to practice my steel guitar along with, and to write music.
I would not recommend pedal steel as one's first instrument.
..........Pat |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 3:16 am
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| No selection for me, too. I started on lap steel. |
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dlayne
From:
OH
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 6:06 am Started
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I started on Bass but just months into learning the Bass I started playing a Fender lap. I know that learning the Bass gave me a good understanding of how music moves, if you will,after fooling around on the lap guitar I bought my first Pedal Steel at age 15. I also play guitar and Sax which I learned in high school band but couldn't really get reading music down so I always play everything by ear.
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Dan Layne |
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Dick Sexton
From:
Greenville, Ohio
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 6:45 am Hummm!
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| Will the Kazoo player please stand up. Lol! |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 7:53 am
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I long to play kazoo but you can't practise so well on headphones.
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Make sleeping dogs tell the truth!
Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 8:17 am
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Guitar and Bass first...not even Country music. Rock and Roll, Beatles, Stones, Blues etc...
First it was "Ventures" music .
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Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
Pro Tools 12 on WIN 7 !
jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website |
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Richard Alderson
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 8:18 am
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Violin, guitar, dobro, lap steel, 8 string C6th no pedals and finally E9th ten stringer . I still can't play C6 with pedals. The hardest transition was from 6 string lap steel and dobro to 8 string. It took me four months to learn a single tune and get it right.
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Derby SD-10 5x6; GFI S-10 5x5; GFI S-10 5x5; Zum D-10 8x7; Zum D-10 9x9; Fender 400; Fender Rumble 200; Nashville 400; Telonics TCA-500. |
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 8:45 am
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Did not make a selection. I started on lap steel when I was 7.  |
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steve takacs
From:
beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 8:53 am
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Started out playing 6 string guitar, dobro, and banjo. Never got into the flutophone but my sisters did and I thought the translucent red ones were pretty wild looking. stevet
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 11:46 am
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Wow, Steve, forget the kazoo - I want one of those!!!
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Make sleeping dogs tell the truth!
Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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Jack Hargraves
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 12:03 pm
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Started playing guitar at age 11, learned banjo at age 35, Piano at age 40, Pedal steel at age 62,I,m still learning.
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GFI Expo SD10, Nashville 112, Steelers choice Pak-a- seat, Carter vol. pedal, Stage one vol. pedal, Peavey Deltafex. Goodrich volume pedal. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 12:18 pm
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| Because of cerebral palsy in my left hand, I had to figure out what instrument would work best for me. When I was four years old, I started singing and harmonizing, then I wanted to play guitar because as a kid, my favorite instrument was the guitar, I strummed a guitar, but realized I couldn't fret the strings with the way my left hand is. When I was fourteen, about 1995, I wanted to play piano/keyboards, so in my seventh grade music class, while other kids were playing recorders, the teacher had me playing keyboards, and marked the notes on the keyboard so I could play the little songs the class would learn on keyboards while they played recorders-it was there that I started playing country songs on keyboards, but by 1998, I felt that I wasn't getting the country sound I wanted on keyboards, so in 1999, I moved on to pedal steel and have been playing since then. My main instruments are my voice and pedal steel guitar |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 23 Feb 2016 12:56 pm
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| Jack Stoner wrote: |
| No selection for me, too. I started on lap steel. |
Same here, and this would seem to be an obvious omission in the poll choices even though there is a category which includes "other instruments."
Many of the greatest players, and not-so-greats of the instrument played lap/non - pedal before they ever depressed the A and B on a pedal steel guitar.
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Allan Jirik
From:
Wichita Falls TX
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Posted 24 Feb 2016 1:19 am
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| I started on guitar at age 8 and got the steel bug at 14. In 1969 I had Fender make me a Dual Six (it took forever) and learned on that until I started frequenting country shows and had a look underneath the pedal steels. That was it, had to have one. |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2016 6:42 am
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Technically, At the age of 8, I started out on a Dobro because I thought the Beatles guitars looked like they were steel so I told my Mother I wanted to play steel guitar.
She came home one day with a Dobro,bars,a book and some picks.I took two lessons from this very old man and told her I didn't like it.
Fast forward a few years and I did ultimately take guitar lessons (with an Electric) and learned to play it and down the road I switched back to steel so to speak.
Bottom line is, it did help me as the steel was more a mechanical thing than a musical thing to learn.
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Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
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Larry Allen
From:
Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 10:38 am
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I started on Guitar at age 6 on the farm,Trumpet and Piano in 3rd grade..majored in Trombone in college, always played guitar and Trombone for a living until I cut off my left middle finger taking a blade off my dozer in 1996, then I learned Dobro and steel , wish I would have found it years earlier!!.Larry 
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Excel steels & Peavey amps,Old Chevys & Motorcycles & Women on the Trashy Side |
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Dennis Montgomery
From:
Western Washington
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Dwight Lewis
From:
Huntsville, Alabama
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 12:05 pm first Geetar
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I was naturally a drummer, but when I started with steel guitar,i started on the pedal steel.I love it,.
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Dekley 7p4k(PRS-10C), BMI S12 5p5kn |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 12:55 pm
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Trumpet then
French Horn, then,
Tenor Banjo, then
Guitar, Delta Blues, first sliding, bottleneck, then
Lapsteel, then
Dobro, then
Pedal steel.
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Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, amazing!
"74 Bud S-10 3&6
'73 Bud S-10 3&5(under construction)
'63 Fingertip S-10, at James awaiting 6 knees
'57 Strat, LP Blue
'91 Tele with 60's Maple neck
Dozen more guitars!
Dozens of amps, but SF Quad reverb, Rick Johnson cabs. JBL 15, '64 Vibroverb for at home.
'52 and '56 Pro Amps |
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