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Started playing within the last:
1 yr
31%
 31%  [ 15 ]
2 yrs
31%
 31%  [ 15 ]
3 yrs
8%
 8%  [ 4 ]
4 yrs
12%
 12%  [ 6 ]
5 yrs
16%
 16%  [ 8 ]
Total Votes : 48

Author Topic:  How Many Newbie Pedal Steel Players?
Jerry Overstreet


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Louisville Ky
Post  Posted 13 Jun 2011 6:31 pm    
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David's pedal steel dying art thread got me to wondering how many players have taken up the instrument for the very first time in say, the last 5 years?

I suppose one wouldn't be considered a newbie after a couple years, but for this poll can we use 5 years or less?


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Christopher Woitach


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Portland, Oregon, USA
Post  Posted 13 Jun 2011 7:28 pm    
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It's been almost exactly a year and a half for me. I don't think I'll ever be the same.
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Thomas Ludwig


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Augsburg, Germany
Post  Posted 14 Jun 2011 3:47 am    
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also one and a half year at the pedals.
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Bobby Austin

 

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Minnesota, USA
Post  Posted 14 Jun 2011 6:59 am     How Long
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About a month for me.
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Ian Miller


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Portland, Oregon, USA
Post  Posted 14 Jun 2011 10:39 am    
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Fall 2009 over here.
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Ed Brooks


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Seattle Washington, USA
Post  Posted 14 Jun 2011 12:33 pm    
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Year and a half for me too.
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 16 Jun 2011 5:54 am    
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bump for more votes, if you please.
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Ray Minich

 

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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
Post  Posted 16 Jun 2011 7:39 am    
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6 string in 1963, pedals in late '80s. Still play like a newbie. One of these days I gotta get serious.
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William Beverly

 

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California, USA
Post  Posted 18 Jun 2011 6:01 pm    
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Two and a half years here. I was J.B. Crabtree's first guitar teacher and his sister gave me his Dobro and a 40's Gibson Lap Steel when he died. Took me a couple years to tackle the one with all the levers and pedals. Wish I coulod have bout his Emmons. If the guy that bought it here a few years ago ever decides to sell it we would like to get it back 'in the family'.
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Ulrich Sinn


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California, USA
Post  Posted 18 Jun 2011 7:56 pm    
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PSG: pretty much one year ago (MSA E9/B6)

played non-pedal & dobro for maybe three, four years before (but guitar forever).

I find pedal steel and non-pedal steel quite difficult (for various reasons string spacing, tuning).

These are actually three different instruments.

I feel the dobro is just starting to open up for me, and I start to grasp the similarities and differences between the instruments.
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Steven Cummings

 

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Texas
Post  Posted 19 Jun 2011 4:21 am    
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Count me in. Less that a year for me.
Playing an MSA, "The Universal" with Maurice Andersons copedent.
I cannot imagine having a better more competent teacher in my wildest dreams.
It ain't dead if I've got anything to do with it.
Hard to imagine something that can sound so special would ever go away. Just my opinion but I do not see that it will ever, ever die away.
Besides, when and if ya'll get to heaven we'll be listening to the best there's ever been and smilin' bigger than ever.
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Jaclyn Jones


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Post  Posted 19 Jun 2011 4:41 am    
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Started September 2008. Bought a1966 Marlen d10 that I still have but now play a G2. Been a blast the whole time.
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Josh Yenne


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Sonoma California
Post  Posted 19 Jun 2011 10:08 am    
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my 3 year anniversary of picking up my first steel was last thursday!

god I love this instrument!

Has been my lifes obsession since that day.. doing about 100 gigs a year on it now.... inspiring, and profitable.

Whoa!
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