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Tommy Auldridge


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Post  Posted 21 Oct 2024 6:22 am    
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I've been wondering what ever became of Jeff's guitars after he passed away. Particularly the S-10 Zum with the stripes. Does anyone have some insight? Thanks, Tommy.....
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Brett Day


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Post  Posted 21 Oct 2024 9:27 am    
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The one guitar I saw him play back when the Southern Steel Guitar Convention was still in Saluda, South Carolina was a red twelve string ZumSteel, but I don't know what happened to his Carter steel
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Bobby D. Jones

 

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Post  Posted 21 Oct 2024 2:18 pm    
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A friend of mine tried to buy Jeff's S12 ZUM from Fran, She would not sell it. That was shortly after his death.
With Frans passing, Hard to tell what happened to his guitars.
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2024 3:26 am    
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Who remembers Jeff slicing his steel in half, onstage at Scotty's. Any pics?
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2024 5:27 am    
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Your own thread from a few years back.
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=373125&sid=2977d1249cc27b8eaf7187b9fede86ae
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Dave Diehl

 

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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2024 5:37 am    
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Jeff told me, although it was not a functioning guitar, he caught a lot of crap from folks in the audiance for sawing that guitar.
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2024 5:47 am    
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I did post about that. That was so funny!
A Jeffran story- I did a C6th week at Jeffran and Buddy was teaching. Mike Daily and Steve Palousek were in that class.
I was sleeping in my van and towards the end of the week, our brains were brimming with Buddy licks.
Buddy had recorded licks on a cassette player and put it under the bunkhouse, where the students were staying.
He put it on a timer set to play during the early morning ours, before dawn.
Because I was sleeping in my van, I didn't hear it.
I think he was trying his subliminal teaching technique, because the way Mike and Steve play, it worked!
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Jim Reynolds


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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2024 9:37 pm    
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I have his U-12 Kline/
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 28 Oct 2024 5:15 am    
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Jim, is that brown,"wood grain" with a long up lever?
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Paddy Long


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Christchurch, New Zealand
Post  Posted 29 Oct 2024 11:20 am    
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His guitars shouldn't be hard to spot -- Jeff loved to put stickers on the front apron of his school guitars, I used a SD10 Dekley while I was there at the school which had "Diesel" stickers on it and pin striping - looked very cool hehe !
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John Sims


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Post  Posted 31 Oct 2024 5:07 pm    
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Chris Templeton wrote:
Jim, is that brown,"wood grain" with a long up lever?


I think it is! He just texted me a picture this evening...
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Jim Reynolds


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Post  Posted 6 Nov 2024 8:37 am    
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Chri, The vertical is longer on it, then my white one. I can only assume. I do have a tuning problem with Jeff's. It has been changed from Jeff's Day setup C,B,A, to A,B,C, I can only think this is what happened. I do not know if Kline has a place to get this right. I change the 4 string for A-C pedal, the the 9th string is out. If I adjust the 9th string it changes the 4th setting. This is the C#'s.
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Skip Edwards

 

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Post  Posted 6 Nov 2024 2:56 pm    
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I recently brought this S12 Zum to Jim Palenscar for a tweaking. It came in an anvil style road case that had Jeff Newman stenciled on it.
Steel is set up Universal, Day and red front/grey top. It has a long vertical lever...you can see it hanging loose. The owner seems to think it had belonged to Jeff at one time. At least, the case might have...


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Brett Day


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Post  Posted 6 Nov 2024 6:45 pm    
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Skip Edwards wrote:
I recently brought this S12 Zum to Jim Palenscar for a tweaking. It came in an anvil style road case that had Jeff Newman stenciled on it.
Steel is set up Universal, Day and red front/grey top. It has a long vertical lever...you can see it hanging loose. The owner seems to think it had belonged to Jeff at one time. At least, the case might have...




I think the Zum was the same one Jeff Newman played at the Southern Steel Guitar Convention. He put a sticker on at one time, but the sticker was taken off maybe a year later
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