Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 14 Dec 2024 10:43 pm |
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 With Christmas coming, I wanted to tell how I became a steel guitarist. It started in November of 1999, and I was eighteen at the time, still in high school and playing keyboards with one hand. I decided I wanted to play a stringed instrument seen and heard in country music, so I decided to figure out if I would be able to play the instrument I've loved since I was eight years old, the pedal steel guitar, so after my twin brother Brandon had started going to college at Middle Tennessee State University, I found out he'd be near Nashville, so one day, while researching the pedal steel guitar, I came across a website for a shop in Goodlettsville, Tennessee called Steel Guitar Nashville, so I started talking to Jeannie, the office manager there and told her I wanted to play steel, so I went to Steel Guitar Nashville, and met Jeannie, and I asked her if there was an Emmons pedal steel that would work for me, so she said yes. She told me about Bobbe, who wasn't there that Saturday because he was playing a show somewhere, and then led me to see the Emmons guitar. A man was tuning the guitar and I kept wondering who would play it and would it be taken care of, and the weeks leading to Christmas were full of curiosity for me, so Christmas Eve came around, and I still wondered about the Emmons, so I woke up that Christmas morning and went downstairs in the house I lived in at the time, and first saw a Peavey amplifier, thinking it belonged to my twin brother, who had gotten an acoustic guitar in 1997, so I couldn't tell what else was there, until I saw a bow in the middle of something, so I looked to the left and saw the Emmons logo! I'd gotten the steel I'd seen being tuned at Steel Guitar Nashville, and got some picks and a Dunlop bar! I found out after I got it that it was built in 1974, and a few years ago, I found out it's an Emmons GS-10. |
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Charlie Hansen
From:
Halifax, NS Canada and Various Southern Towns.
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Posted 15 Dec 2024 9:19 am
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It's a great story. Hope you are progressing well. Merry Christmas.
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I don't know much but what I know I know very well.
Carter S-10 3X5, Peavey Nashville 112, plus Regal dobro and too many other instruments to mention.
Bluegrass Island CFCY FM 95.1 Charlottetown, PE, Canada, on the web at cfcy.fm.
A Touch Of Texas CIOE FM 97.5 Sackville, NS, Canada,
on the web at cioe975.ca. |
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