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Topic: Pickups to make you sound like Jerry Byrd |
Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 8 Jan 2018 12:45 pm |
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An old thread from another forum that I happened on...not to dunk on the original poster, but I remember my younger days thinking that gear was the solution to every musical problem:
https://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?71413-pedal-steel-pickups-that-sound-hawaiian
Synopsis: Guy thinks that if he finds the right pickup, his normal fretted Strat will sound Hawaiian like Jerry Byrd.  Funny thread (although if someone invents a pickup that will do that, let me know!). |
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 8 Jan 2018 12:58 pm
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| That reads like a a roomful of 2nd graders discussing where babies come from. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Tim Whitlock
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2018 9:19 am
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| Darn - I thought I was going to learn about a magical pickup! |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 9 Jan 2018 4:10 pm Jerry Byrd said it
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Indeed Jerry Byrd said it.... "If you can play, it doesn't matter what guitar you use. If you can't play, it doesn't matter what guitar you use."
Nothing more true could be said and thats a fact, but I can't help wishing I had a switch with these five positions;
Byrd, Emmons, Day, Joaquin, Speedy 
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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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G Strout
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Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 10 Jan 2018 3:48 pm
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That is the funniest thread I have read in a long, long time. Obviously the OP should learn that slant steel..... THEN he will sound like Jerry Byrd  |
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Mark Leonard
From:
Santa Fe, NM USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2018 5:36 am
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| But it is true that certain guitars have an exceptional tone that enhances the playing experience. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 11 Jan 2018 7:57 am The steel that improved my playing
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Kidding aside.
While it's true that the instrument does not make the player...
The steel that improved my playing was when I got my Clinesmith aluminum lap steel last July.
The tone is so wonderful and the sustain is incredible to the point I play it every day now. It is just because of that wonderful instrument that I'm getting better day by day.
While it may be an expensive instrument it has been worth every penny.
I'll never be as good as the steel picking greats, at least now I am becoming a proficient player and learning more and more each day.
Clinesmith, worth the price and worth the wait.
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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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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 11 Jan 2018 8:32 am
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| Sort of the inversion of your scenario...the instrument that has helped me improve the most has not been my 50s Stringmaster, as fond as I am of it, but my extremely cheap old base model Morrell 6 string. The reason? It's always just there. The wife tolerates its presence in the living room and I'm constantly grabbing it and working on stuff with it. But in both scenarios its the same basic cause...what instrument makes you practice more? The Clinesmith inspires you to play it more by its tone, similar to how just the sheer convenience and presence of my cheap lap steel has me practicing more than I would otherwise. |
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