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Topic: testing the waters here for two tone bar prototypes... |
Christiaan van der Vyver
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London, UK
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Posted 7 Sep 2011 9:58 pm |
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hi all, thought id put the word out here to all the fellow steelers, was wondering if any of you would be interested in a tone bar im just in the prototype/patenting stage with at the moment.
the first one will allow you to play any two parallel pitches whilst having an open string drone on the string in between - no slants though. kind of allows you to do what many guitarists can do but steelers cant - sliding up an octave or any other interval up the fretboard whilst having a drone string in between! the bullet bar nature of the bar also obviously allows you to play any two intervals parallel on adjacent strings.
this bar would be an auxiliary bar to supplement your main shubb or bulletnose tone bar.
thoughts ?
chris |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 10:33 am
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I bought a bar like that off ebay a number of years ago. It was a round bar with a section in the tip side of center milled away, so the bar could be rotated to bring the gap into play or not. The bar had the Chase Company markings, but it may have been a modified bar that was subsequently rechromed.
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 11:01 am
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 11:19 am
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I am trying to remember if I still have it, or if I gave it away. It was very light, as those old tapered Chase bars tended to be. I will look around. But the way it appeared to be made was by taking the round bar and milling a chamfered slot on about a quarter of the circumference. The slot was about as wide as an average spacing between strings, and the slot was toward the tip end of the bar rather than in the center. The bar came with a number of bars I found in the case of a San Jose area 1959 D-10 Bigsby -- so maybe someone in the San Jose Area made it out of a stock Chase bar? The chrome was complete, though, so it looked like it was professionally done -- "factory" even.
I did not use it more than a few minutes.
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