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Topic: What brand of steels in your area mostly? |
Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 May 2005 12:51 pm |
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| I've got another one of my questions that may seem odd to some but I'm just wondering what brands of steel guitars will you find in the areas where players live? I'll divide this by north, south, east and west in the USA. Here in the south, Mississippi, it seems like you see more Emmons. What brand do you mainly play? For me, Carter. |
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:27 pm
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100% Carter in my area....since I own the only pedal steel within 250 miles or so. It used to be 100% Sho-Bud,, but I sold it to a guy on Baffin Island. He's probably the only steel player in Canada more isolated than me  |
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:34 pm
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| Not many steels down here in Central Mexico, that I know of. I only have my old MSA Classic now, I know of only 3 other people in Mexico with pedal steels, one has an old MSA Classic, another has a Carter Starter, a Thomas U-12 and just ordered a new Williams, and another 'way up north in Chihuahua has a Carter D-10 (I think). [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 15 May 2005 at 02:35 PM.] |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 15 May 2005 1:44 pm
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| We see all kinds here in North California. I've noticed an increase in Carters over the last few years, but I think that's happening everywhere. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 May 2005 2:00 pm
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At our Florida Steel Guitar Club monthly jams there is a wide assortment and not one predominant model.
However, when I lived in Kansas City, Mo the predominant steel there, obviously, was Zumsteel's since they were made there.
I've seen pictures from some of the regional steel guitar shows and I've noticed more of one brand than another and it's usually the "local" brand. e.g. the last pictures I saw of a Colorado show, there were a lot of Mullen guitars, which are made in Colorado. |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Posted 16 May 2005 6:07 am
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Emmons and Sho-Bud have dominated this area for a longtime.
Hook
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 16 May 2005 6:36 am
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In the Virginia/North Carolina area I see more Emmons than anything else and actually see more Marlens than ShoBuds...JH in Va.
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Scott Henderson
From:
Camdenton, Missouri, USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 9:15 am
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yup mainly ZUM here in the ozarks. In fact I went to a jam and was the only guitar that wasn't a ZUM. Felt real awkward especially when I looked up and Bruce himself was looking at my JCH. hehehehehehe
My next ax will be a ZUMMER!!!!!Great guitars in my own backyard. I am not mechanically inclined by no means so would be nice to have a tech right down the road.
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Steelin' away in the ozarks and life,
Scott
www.scottyhenderson.com
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Larry Strawn
From:
Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:06 am
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Well,,
Here in Kingma, Az. it seems pretty well Emmons dominated,,My S/D-10, and Bill Baileys' D-10 Legrande. LOL..
Larry
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:21 am
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| Bill Bailey's got a nice old Sho-Bud too. |
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Tim Harr
From:
Dunlap, Illinois
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:44 am
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Here in Central Illinois ..you see a little bit of everything:
Many of these guys have several types of Steel Guitars...
Donnie Vore: MSA
Bobby Duncan: Williams S-10 Keyless
Dyke Corson: Emmons P/P
Jerry Erickson: Fessenden/Emmons P/P
Bobby Watson: Sho Bud
Mike Webb: Emmons Le Grande
Dino Dobbins: Emmons LeGrande (short key head)
Kenny Decker: Emmons Le Grande
Billy Peddycourt: Mullen D-10
Darrell Cummins: Zum Steel
Gary Sill: Zum Steel
Tim Harr: Carter D-10
Larry Huchinson: Marlen D-10
Jimmy Waters: Sho Bud
Janice Zilm: MSA
Paul Hill: Williams (keyless)
Chuck Strother: MSA
As you can see there is a big spread of models... |
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Ben Slaughter
From:
Madera, California
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Posted 16 May 2005 12:16 pm
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| For whatever reasons, there seems to be quite a few Zums out here in central CA. Also lots of Day setups... |
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Leslie Ehrlich
From:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 16 May 2005 12:36 pm
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| I've been playing guitar (not steel) for almost thirty years and throughout that time the predominant brands were MSA or Sho-Bud. I've seen a few oddball brands too. I've seen only half a dozen doubleneck PSGs here in my lifetime so far, including my own. |
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Dyke Corson
From:
Fairmount, IL USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 2:41 pm
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| To add to Tim's central Illinois list we have sold several GFI guitars recently to folks in Illinois - Jerry Erickson just picked up a nice D-10 Keyless. Bob Watson also has a Push Pull now. I also know of a couple other Carter owners, a lefty Pedalmaster, a Sierra single 12, a few Legrande III owners (myself included) and a couple MSA Millennium owners too. |
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Larry Strawn
From:
Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 May 2005 2:45 pm
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Jim,,
I don't think Bill still has the "Bud",,maybe he'll read this and let us know..
Larry
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Emmons S/D-10, 3/4, Sessions 400 Ltd. Home Grown E/F Rack
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 16 May 2005 3:06 pm
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| Hi Bill, What is your friend doing on Baffin Island? We used to fly there in the 1950s and during the summer the mosquitos (man I mean huge) would swarm like crazy. I wonder if the old sunken barge in still there? |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 3:32 pm
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| Push -pull territory here. That would be Emmons push-pull for you newbies that don't know. And a few Buds. |
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 16 May 2005 5:06 pm
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| Charles, I don't know the guy from Baffin Island at all...he saw my old Sho-Bud on eBay last year and bought it. But I remember him saying that he used to live in the Ottawa area and I believe he moved up there to work for the Nunavut dept of transport in the town of Iqaluit. I also remember that it cost him some serious dollars to have the guitar shipped up there as you might imagine. Where I live is almost metropolitain compared to Iqaluit. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 16 May 2005 8:13 pm
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| Out here in NZ there is a bit of a mixture, I have a Zum and a Carter, I know of at least one other Carter, a MCI, a JCH, a Emmons Legrande, 2 Emmons Push Pulls, several ShoBud D10's, a LDG and several Sierras --- I think there might even be an old Dekley or 2 floating about under someones bed. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:31 pm
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in my area, i'm pretty much the only one w a psg
there's a buddy w: a LDG bout 100 miles away
Victor too w: his WBS is closer
in France tho' PSGs are well assorted
Carter, Shobud, WBS, Zumsteel, Emmons Wiesner, MSA, Sierra, MCI, AWH, Miller, Fessenden, & Excel[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 17 May 2005 at 12:34 AM.] |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 17 May 2005 4:52 am
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this area has several Shobuds, 1 Marlen that I can think of, no Emmons at all. 1 Remington and quite a few GFI models, and a few BMI's that I can think of.
Ernie Pollock http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm
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Grant Johnson
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 17 May 2005 7:36 am
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Up here in Seattle I have noticed a couple Sho-Buds (Garth Highsmith & Don Pawlack), A couple MSA's (Jon Rauhouse & me), a Franklin (Dan Tyack), and a Carter (Bob Knetzger).
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 17 May 2005 9:50 am
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Of the 7 steel players that I know that live in or around EL Dorado, 4 play Emmons, 1 plays a Zum, and two Mullens. I play a RP Mullen and wouldn't trade it for any other brand.
But for Arkansas as a whole, there are probly more Emmons guitars than any other brand.
Terry
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steelin for my Lord
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Lem Smith
From:
Long Beach, MS
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Posted 17 May 2005 11:51 am
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Here in northeast MS, it's Sho~Bud 7, Mullen 2, Zumsteel 2, Carter 2, Fender pedal 1, Fender non-pedal with pedals added 1, Howard 1, MSA 1, Mooney 2, Emmons Legrande 1, Dekley 1.
Those are all I can think of at the moment. |
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Allan Thompson
From:
Scotland.
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Posted 17 May 2005 12:18 pm
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Four Emmons Push Pulls one Promat and one GFI within 12 miles. Within forty miles one MSA one Fulawka three Sho Buds and another GFI. And that`s just the north of Scotland.
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