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Topic: Pre-war Rick 7-string - Sound Check |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 8 May 2023 10:06 pm |
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Some sweet tones emanating from those machines AND from those fingers.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ethan Shaw
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 12 May 2023 10:02 am
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| Sounds great, Doug! Man, that's an awesome guitar. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 12 May 2023 10:29 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| ...it's hard to beat these old Model B's for tone! |
Nigh on impossible, in my opinion.
George Beauchamp may be the single most underacknowledged and unappreciated individual in the history of electric guitars -- both Hawaiian and Spanish. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 12 May 2023 5:42 pm Perfect
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Congratulations Doug,
Perfect to have 7 strings with A6th. I have a couple of 8 strings in that key and almost never use the 8th string much, but I'd sure miss the high 5th tone if I was playing a C6th. Even the 6 string Magnatone Jewltone I got recently still has the high E and 6th string in C#. I do miss the low A a little, but it's such a nice steel I had to have it.
Oh yes, and your new Ricky guitar sounds wonderful with you playing it.
I think the bakelite's are the best sounding ones.
I'd love to have a silver one with the gold trim and clear plexiglass just for the beauty, but the tone of those never gets as good as the one you got.
Have fun picking,
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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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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