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Topic: advice on first geetar |
Lindy Griffith
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 3:33 am |
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Great site Fellows!
I have been playing guitar for 30 some years but really always wanted to play pedal steel.
I would love to get opinions about what my first steel should be?
I've been told to steer away from anything with this than 4 knee levers and 3 floor pedals?
I'm looking a a BMI at Seymour's (Dan there says adding knee's is no problem)
The other is the Carter Starter which is seems to get raves on line?
Help?
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Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 4:03 am
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I would certainly consider a GFI Economy, a great sounding guitar. Or a nice GFI Ultra. These are great guitars & you won't have to buy another later.
Ernie  http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm
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Ron Kirby
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 2 May 2006 4:13 am
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 May 2006 4:45 am
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Ernie's right. Bobbe's GFIs are the best, most solid and standard guitars for the money. Maybe even overall.
If you've been playing guitar that long, you know how the game works and don't need a "starter". It would just be an added expense when you want a "real guitar" in a month.
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 4:59 am
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The pedal steel guitar is a hard instrument to learn. Buy a good used pro model. You will eliminate all of the negative things that lesser models have that hold you back and frustrate you when you get started.
I would recommend a used Carter pro model. Plenty of them out there and they hold their value.
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 May 2006 5:50 am
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I Would Get A New GFI ULTRA From Bobbie Seymour At A Great Price. SONNY.
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Wayne D. Clark
From:
Montello Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 6:43 am
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Lindy, I'm with the rest of the fellows, I played Lap steel for years, Wanted a PSG, Purchased a Starter and Sold it in a month, and picked up a used MSA D10 8/2. GO for an insterment that you can grow into. Don't spend your money Twice. Like Sonny said Bobby Seymour has some Great Guitars set up on his floor.
Wayne
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Damien Odell
From:
Springwood, New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 2 May 2006 3:35 pm
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Lindy, my first guitar was a BMI with 3 x 3. I ordered an extra 2 knee lever kits and installed them myself no probs. It's a good sounding and reliable guitar that gets a real workout.
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Daniel J. Cormier
From:
Lake Charles, LA, USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 5:44 pm
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I'm with Sonny. Buy a GFI Ultra from a good dealer and if things don't work out you'll get most of your money back on resale. Both Ernie and Bobbe have these guitars for sale at good prices
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Daniel J. Cormier Whatever D-10 I happen to have at the moment.
EVans FET 500 LV ,ProFex II
http://www.cajunsteelguitar.com email at djcormier@cox-internet.com 
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Sidney Ralph Penton
From:
Moberly, Missouri, USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 9:04 pm
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well i bought a carter starter it was a good psg but before long i needed a pro model. i wished i would have went to a pro model from the get go i would not have spent as much money and would have been better off. if you go with a sd10 or a d 10 3 floor and 4-5 knee is all you will need to pay anything. seeing how your from missouri i would check out bruce. he makes a great zum steel. he is proud of them and they are a fantastic psg. and bruce is a ok guy if your in a pinch. (just kidding) bruce is a great guy! i have had some trouble out of carter on ordering things etc and i have heard others say the samething. with bruce you will not go wrong! personally i don't care for the three inital psg's. mci bmi etc.they are just have a look of cheap made. they might play ok i don't know i was just saying about the looks. mine is black with chrome around it and zum is in silver (chrome) and my name is on the front in chrome looks like it came from bruce like that. juts my oppinion. doc
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zum SD10 peavy session 400 peavy XR600G
if its not a zum steel it isn't real
just trying to steel for the Lord>
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 2 May 2006 9:32 pm
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| I think that you can do a ton on 3/3 and don't necessarily need 4 knees for your 1st guitar. Also- if Bobbe has a good price on the BMI- snap it up- they are very good guitars for the $$$ and will last you for years with good resale value. |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 May 2006 4:22 am
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I agree with pretty much everything said above.
With the single question.
what music do you want to play???
90% of players asume you will be E9 country.
A not illogical assumption,
but not all of us were aimed that way.
The standard E9 is a great place to start,
it also has a lot of training material,
and almost ANY steel teacher or player
will KNOW what you need to do for your early learning curve.
That said if your interested in swing and jazzy stuff,
and KNOW you will be going that direction sooner than later;
Then a used D-10 from Bobbe would be a arguably better choice.
I play E9, because it came with my C6 neck on a used Sho-Bud.
I knew what I wanted to do before hand,
and had planed on a S-10 refitted to C6,
but found the D-10 1st.
To get basic technique down, an E9 S-10 is gonna
keep you working a long time one way or another.
All the steels mentioned above are good choices. |
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