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Bill Nevins
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st.charles,Missouri, USA
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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 17 May 2016 12:26 am |
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| Looks a bit expensive at $75 - they go for $99 on Ebay brand new and a lot less than that used. |
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:18 am
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What's an E bow?
RC |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:33 am
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Uses pulsing electromagnets to bow a string or two
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:37 am
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See about the two minute mark: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MZmHjVMq0
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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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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:45 am
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
| Uses pulsing electromagnets to bow a string or two |
Most of them work on just one string.
That did make a version specifically for steel guitar at one time which acted on 2 strings but they are as rare as hens teeth - rarer for one in good working condition. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:53 am
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Indeed. I have a two-string around somewhere.
Greg Heet said he won't repair them or make them again.
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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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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 17 May 2016 11:56 am
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
Indeed. I have a two-string around somewhere.
Greg Heet said he won't repair them or make them again. |
Yes, I contacted Ebow to suggest they reissue them but they said no way! Maybe I need to do some experiments with 2 regular Shows and some duct tape  |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 17 May 2016 12:09 pm
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I believe the Steel Ebow was two regular units potted in epoxy. If you have a couple and they're easily disassembled, you could try...
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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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Lem Smith
From:
Long Beach, MS
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 8:58 pm
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| Rick Campbell wrote: |
What's an E bow?
RC |
Here is a nice demonstration; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-2IZox9tYc
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 12:31 am Nice e-Bow from the big E
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Nice e-Bow from the big E...
Thanks for the link.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 9:07 am
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I just bought a new Ebow!
Sarah Jory used one in Dallas, and it was very cool!
I recorded a song demo with it already.
Here it is, with Ebow on intro, solo, outro.
The Jealous Kind
https://picosong.com/wQYsA/ |
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 3:17 pm Sarah using e-Bow
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Hi Pete,
Nice playing there.
I was also at the Dallas show and loved seeing Sarah playing live for the first time.
I've also found that the e-Bow is the only gadget I really like to use a lot though I know not to over do the thing.
She brought tears to my eyes when she dedicated that song to her dad who has passed away. Some of that was bringing back my own dads passing 15 years ago.
In 40+ years of hearing so many great players those tears were a first for me.
She also did some wonderful playing in the Mullen room.
Andy
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 4:11 pm
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| I have an Ebow and decided to try the new TC Electronics AEON sustain gizmo. The Ebow is better IMO being easier to control. |
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James Flaherty
From:
California, USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 6:20 pm
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| Pete, is that an e-bow made for guitar or a 2 string version for steel? |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 6:49 pm
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| It is a basic single-string model they sell in music stores. |
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Bob Lawrence
From:
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 18 Apr 2019 3:22 pm
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Big E uses the Ebow on this song, its so beautiful.
Buddy Emmons "Once Upon a Time in the West"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdPDrCXMdg
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Franklin D10, Telonics (E9)True Tone(C6) pickups, Fender Steel King , Evans (FET 500LV), Nashville 400, Quilter MicroBlock 45 amp's, Telonics FP100 volume pedal, PodXT(effects only), Boss RV3(delay & reverb),Steel Guitar Black Box,Bill Lawrence cables, Walker Seat,Peterson Flip Tuner, IVL Steel Rider, IK Multimedia IRig Pro DUO for recording. |
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2019 3:42 pm
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Right on Bob,
I'll not go to the link because I've already heard him do that tune about 1,000 times. My favorite along with his Mansion On The Hill.
Andy 
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2019 4:50 pm
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I learned an EBow trick from Frank Carter last weekend at the Southern California Steel Jam...
We did "Amarillo By Morning", and after the set I noticed that Frank had an Ebow, and I mentioned that the [fiddle] Intro would be a good Ebow song.
He was able to get the lick going pretty good with the Ebow, pretty quickly!
Then I mentioned that I had just gotten one and was thinking of adding some cardboard to the bottom, to get it off the strings just a little more, to avoid string-rattle...
Now here is the trick...
Frank showed me how he leans it forward, towards the front of the Steel, to keep it both stable/anchorded, and also control the distance of the magnet to the string.
This way you can also go left and right to the various sweet spots (closer to the pickup, or closer to a harmonic node, etc), and leaning it forward is like having a sensetivity control (you mailnly don't want the undesireable sound of the vibrating string touching the plastic frame of the Ebow).
I have been working it in on some fills in Ballads, and sustain-endings, on my gigs. It has a haunting quailty.
I read another post where a player said he put some coins in the battery compartment to give it some weight so he could set it off alone on the strings and play other strings around it.
I tried it, and I've dropped my brand new Ebow off the neck deck onto a hard-wood floor like three or four times so far. I gotta braistorm that one still.
  
I am going to try to get one of my bands to do "Love Hurts" by Nazareth (Glam Rock version).
There is Ebow (guitar) starting at the 2min mark at the first Bridge, but the main Ebow solo starts at 2min-45sec.
It will be great on Steel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsSCIewEio |
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John McClung
From:
Olympia WA, USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2019 7:52 am
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Pete, I think you could affix the eBow to a short cord that attaches to the changer cavity where springs are located. That would keep it from crashing to the floor!
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Apr 2019 9:33 am
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Though some here may doubt it, you can get almost the same effect with a lot of amp gain and proper volume pedal use  I use this method regularly, and some people have thought I used an Ebow or other sustain device.
Nope.
Of course, I can't get the "endless sustain" you can get with the Ebow, but I find that 5 to 10 seconds of the effect is about all I'd normally use, anyway. |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 19 Apr 2019 9:50 am
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Buddy's intro to this beautiful song by Merle Haggard and Ray Charles is just exquisite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKaItF1noI
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Apr 2019 11:22 am
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| Reverb definitely makes that intro! |
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