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Topic: What is a Student model? |
Chet Wilcox
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Illinois, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Dec 2010 8:19 pm |
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| Can anyone define Just what is a student model steel guitar ,and what deterines a pro model. Isnt it the player who deterines what is what. |
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Chet Wilcox
From:
Illinois, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Dec 2010 8:20 pm
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| sorry about the missing M in determines. My M key only works when it wants to. |
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Bill Howard
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2010 1:06 pm Student models?
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Chet I guess I may have initiated this subject a bit:). I think most people consider something simple and elementry a student model.
An example would be the Fender made by Sho Bud i started with in 1979 it has one knee lever,well of course it did not take long for me to fugure out I needed more,Jeff Newman told me that the first time I saw him at the convention in 1979 not long after I started playing p steel,Winnie Winston also outlined that in his book, if you put a beginner on a DBl 10 with 9 Floors and 8 or 9 knee levers I think it would be very confusing to him he would probably throw in the towel after a few minutes.
Kind of like you don't see a lot of beginner bass players using a 5 string?...
Same thing with a B bender guitar G bender? same deal would be very confusing to someone just starting ,I think this may be what people are talking about when the say Student model most of which would be boring to a seasoned player:) |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 14 Dec 2010 1:16 pm
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I think there are two concepts of student steels
1) A brand new steel that is easy on the wallet.
2) A steel with a very simple copedent, probably 3 pedals and 1 knee lever.
A pull-release type steel with 3 + 3 would make a good student steel, it wouldn't be too costly to make (as long as the pull-release mechanism was kept rudimetary), and 3 knee levers is ample |
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Robert Murphy
From:
West Virginia
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Posted 14 Dec 2010 2:26 pm
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| IMHO a student model has a fixed copedent. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 14 Dec 2010 4:15 pm
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I've got a student model Emmons that was built in 1974. Some student model steels have a fretboard that is not raised or sometimes have a shorter scale, another example of this is a GFI economy model, which is GFI's student model guitar. Most student model steels have three pedals and one knee lever too. They are smaller than a professional model steel. Professional model steels can have a 24 inch scale or more scales while student model steels can probably have fewer scales, I guess and some student model steels, like a student Emmons can have two little knobs on it where the neck is.
Brett |
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