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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 12:03 pm |
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Digging through some old papers, I came across this cardstock slide rule invention from when I was was first thinking about pedal steel tunings. I didn't have a pedal steel yet in 1969, but I knew that I was going to be a steel player. 
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 1:34 pm
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Yes, what would we do without Mel Bay? 
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 1:36 pm
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Nice find b0b!
It’s a good time right now to go through boxes, files, etc. and rediscover cool stuff - or items headed for the recycling bin.
And there’s also the never ending yard work on my property.
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David Ball
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North Carolina High Country
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 2:35 pm
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Back in the late sixties, my dad--a music professor--took me with him to a Music Educators National Conference (MENC) convention in New Orleans. I was in high school at the time, and had gone through pretty much all of the Mel Bay books as a kind of antidote to my bassoon studies...
Anyway, the Mel Bay booth at the convention trade show was manned by none other than Mel himself. I got to sit around and talk to him for the whole afternoon. It was a highlight of the trip. He talked about living in his Winnebago and going to shows all over the country. I guess it was the first time I ever thought about Mel Bay being a person instead of just a brand. Really nice guy and great musician. Fond memories for sure...
That's a pretty complicated slide rule, b0b!
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 2:55 pm
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It's reminiscent of the computer-generated charts that appear in some of Joe Wright's videos.
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Len Amaral
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Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 3:07 pm
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b0b, very cool. I knew absolutely nothing about pedal steel but I wanted to play the instrument. I saw an ad in Guitar Player Magazine in the early 70’’s for the Mark 1 pedal steel kit for $150 . Three pedals and one knee lever and would not stay in tune. But you have to start somewhere ðŸ‘
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2020 7:24 pm
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I thought I was the only crazy one about 1969-70 era. All the steels I seen had 2 necks.I thought a steel had to have 2 necks to play. If I had just put a pad on the C-6th neck space, And spent all the work on the back neck on the front neck. I could have had the front neck with all the levers and pedals of 1970. And got to start serious on the E-9th neck years before I did.
I bought most of the casting for the guitar, But I ended up making a mold and casting of the changer/pickup casting so the guitar would hold its tuning.
This is what is left of my steel guitar dreaming. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 6:09 am
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| way, way cool b0b! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bill C. Buntin
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 8:35 am
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That’s cool b0b. Without a doubt the ultimate enthusiast.
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Dennis Montgomery
From:
Western Washington
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 26 Mar 2020 11:41 am
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Brilliant!
I think people in their board meetings would look pretty cool using these sliderule things instead of laptops. Things just didn't go that way I guess.
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