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Dave Zirbel
From:
Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 6:30 pm |
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I’ve heard it called “steel pedalâ€, lap top slide, tabletop guitar, etc.....the drummer of the opening band said he liked my steel piano🤪
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Dave Zirbel-
Sierra S-10 (Built by Ross Shafer),ZB, Fender 400 guitars, various tube and SS amps |
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Kevin Fix
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 6:33 pm
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| Enough to piss off the Pope!!!!!! That is sad coming from a musician!!!!! |
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 25 May 2018 6:43 pm
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I hope you referred to him as a bongo player.
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 25 May 2018 7:13 pm
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| I've had many people come up to me, including musicians, and say my steel is a cool piano or keyboard. I haven't figured out how anybody could think that, but ya' can't make this stuff up. |
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Brandin
From:
Newport Beach CA. USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 9:18 am
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I've had it called "the guitar layin' down'.
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 26 May 2018 11:22 am
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| I worked at a place, when, the owner thought I was playing a computer. |
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Mike Dunlap
From:
Robinson,Illinois, USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 1:42 pm
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My Granddaughter calls mine "table guitars" I don't care cause she compliments me on my playing. and like i said she is my Granddaughter  |
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Skip Ellis
From:
Bradenton, Fl USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 1:59 pm
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I told somebody the other day that it was an 'electric ironing board'
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2013 Brook Torridge, 2014 Martin 000-18, two homebrew Teles, Evans RE200 amp, Quilter 101R head, understanding wife of 45 years. 'Steeless' at the moment but looking...... |
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Jerry Korkki
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 5:02 pm
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| Way back when, a club owner that our band worked for always called it table steel. To this day when I run into him he still mentions how he liked my table steel playing. Doesn't bother me a bit (maybe cause he's the only one to give me a compliment). |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 26 May 2018 5:14 pm
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| A hippie "chick" once told me that my guitar looked like a burial for two salmon. |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 26 May 2018 5:47 pm
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| Tony Glassman wrote: |
| A hippie "chick" once told me that my guitar looked like a burial for two salmon. |
Lol!!!!!  |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 26 May 2018 5:48 pm
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| Brooks Montgomery wrote: |
| I hope you referred to him as a bongo player. |
lol |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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K Maul
From:
Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 27 May 2018 2:14 am
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Somebody once called it “the Moog synthesizerâ€. Granted, I was using lots of effects on that gig...but Jeez!
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KEVIN MAUL: Airline, Beard, Clinesmith, Donner, Evans, Excel, Fender, Fluger, GFI, Gibson, Hilton, Ibanez, Justice, K+K, Live Strings, MOYO, National, Oahu, Peterson, Quilter, Rickenbacher, Sho~Bud, Supro, TC, Ultimate, VHT, Williams, X-otic, Yamaha, ZKing. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 27 May 2018 3:28 am
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When I played in a band with Kevin Quick a guy came up to our late singer Alan Hamel and asked him what was Kevin playing,Alan told the guy that "Stu breaks so many strings while playing that Kevin had to wind new ones for Stu,and it was a string winding machine.
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Greg Gefell
From:
Upstate NY
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Dick Hitchcock
From:
Wayne, Nebraska
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Posted 29 May 2018 8:46 am
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I've had it called a "Singer Sewing Machine"
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Justice Pro Lite 4x5.... NV112.... Steel seat. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Donald Brigner
From:
Mountain Home, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 29 May 2018 10:00 am Extraterrestrial Instrument
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| A good drummer friend of mine that used to work the road with the Hag and a few other greats told me that he once told the steel player that the instrument must be from outer space as no earthling could be so coordinated as to have each limb do something that seemed so thoroughly difficult all at the same time other than an "alien" with "out of this world" capabilities. As I try to learn to play the instrument ...... I am beginning to think he might have been right. LOL If nothing else, a darn good description of just how difficult it is. |
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Mike Beley
From:
Alberta, Canada
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Posted 29 May 2018 12:23 pm
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| Kevin Fix wrote: |
| Enough to piss off the Pope!!!!!! That is sad coming from a musician!!!!! |
No he said it was a drummer that told him that, not a musician.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 29 May 2018 1:29 pm Re: Extraterrestrial Instrument
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| […]the instrument must be from outer space as no earthling could be so coordinated as to have each limb do something that seemed so thoroughly difficult all at the same time other than an "alien" with "out of this world" capabilities. As I try to learn to play the instrument ...... I am beginning to think he might have been right. LOL If nothing else, a darn good description of just how difficult it is. |
Excuses, excuses … it is no more difficult for a human to play a PSG, than for a bumblebee to fly.
Just ignore that something is advertised to be hard and/or impossible to do on this contraption, and do it anyway until it becomes easy enough for comfort. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 29 May 2018 2:45 pm
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I remember reading that in theory, a bumblebee can't fly because it's wings are too small to generate enough lift. So there's hope for us steelers yet.
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Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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MIchael Bean
From:
North Of Boston
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Posted 30 May 2018 8:23 am
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| A singer I was backing announced it as "laptop steel". |
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Donald Brigner
From:
Mountain Home, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 30 May 2018 8:29 am Extraterrestrial Instrument
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| Sorry guys, I took it as a compliment (and I'm sure he meant it that way) when the drummer made those comments about steel players being "aliens". I am only a novice and highly respect you fellas that have mastered the instrument. I will be more cautious about my future posts. It was a joke and I thought it was funny but I suppose everyone has their own ideas about that. |
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