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Topic: Zumsteel minor gloat |
Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 9:39 am |
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Bruce Zumsteg builds a rock solid pedal steel guitar. Mine, #387,built in 90 or 91, rode in my sleeper for 3700 miles of I-70 this week.
When I set up for my gig last night, 19 strings were still in tune. The errant one had drifted 10 cents. It came out of the case basically ready to play after a rough vibratory week. Not bad for a 20 year old machine.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 10:48 am
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| Must be a bad string. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 11:06 am
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Lane. The guitar is no good anymore. You need to burn it, or send it to me. 
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 11:26 am
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Don't tell Sid . It was 1 of his
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 4:46 pm
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| The newer ones are just as bad. When I get mine out of the car and set it up in a club, all the strings are about the same amount sharp. I have a feeling that if I'd just wait a few minutes, it would fix itself. I usually check it at the first break and rarely have to do anything. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2012 8:58 am
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| My Zum Hybrid is always sharp what I first sit behind it. After I play a while it comes into tune. |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 3 Sep 2012 11:47 am
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| Exactly Erv. It is a Hybrid. Bruce told me that tuner was pretty stable and he was right. It is the closest to being in tune right out of the case as any guitar I've owned. And, as I said, it rarely needs retuning during a gig. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 4 Sep 2012 1:29 am
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me D10 Zum ( 2006) is pretty much in tune when i set it up out of the case
just a lil' tweaking |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 4 Sep 2012 9:45 am
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See guys. Your Zums are no good. You can send them all to me.
Of course, just kidding (except the "send them all to me" part).
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Jerry Kippola
From:
UP Michigan, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2012 12:37 pm
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| The tuning on mine is password protected, and i forgot what it was, oh well |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 4 Sep 2012 5:05 pm
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| Richard, you might drink too much or get to messin with the bar girls or something with the extra time you'd have. I better not send you one, for your own good. |
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Jeff Spencer
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 2:13 am
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You need to tune a Zum???????
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 4:14 am
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| Any stringed instrument when taken from the case need to acclimate to the room,then after it has done so,check tunings.I don't know how many times I've seen guys constantly twisting keys just because they got in a hurry & are out of tune all night,let it get used to the environment before you pick it.Film at 10. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 4:21 am
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Ransom needs a Zum
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 1:04 pm
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My Carter stays in tune real well. I did a 4 hour gig Sunday, and another on 1-1/2 hr gig on Monday, and my guitar was still in tune from Sunday, except the 9th string was a few couple cents flat. My guitar also "travels" well.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 1:18 pm
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| Up here in the cold country it's easy for a guitar to get out of tune. You have to let it warm up when you bring it in from the outside. I recall hearing that Buddy Emmons would carry a hair dryer along with him to speed the warm up process. |
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