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Topic: Framus Pedal Steel |
Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 8:09 am |
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| I had a friend call this morning asking if I have ever heard of a Framus pedal sleel. Have any of you guys ever heard of such a brand and if so who makes it? He knows someone who is looking at the steel with 5 pedals and 2 levers. I did a search through the forum and did not find any info at all. |
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 8:12 am
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| After searching again I did find the guitar listed above. It is built overseas from what I can tell. I still would like some info if anyone know about this brand. |
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Dennis Wireman
From:
North West Indiana 47978
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 8:26 am framus
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| Paul I have had acoustic guitars and banjos framus made in germany never seen a pedal steel though |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 8:32 am
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German company, 1946-77, and 1995-present. Made guitars, basses, mandos, banjos, steels (mostly lap steels).
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There are many pictures of Framus lap steels and console steels posted in the non-pedal section of this forum. Framus made a pedal steel too, but they are pretty rare.
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Peter den Hartogh
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Peter den Hartogh
From:
Cape Town, South Africa
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 11:01 am
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Isn't there a photo of the German player, Frank Baum, playing a Framus PSG in Scotty's instruction book ('Anthology of...'?
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 11:03 am
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Sorry - I missed that earlier post.
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 4:16 pm
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| Thanks guys for the comments and links. I will pass on the info. |
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 8:38 pm
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It is a German made pedal steel, I used to own one way back when I was playing in Germany in the early 90's ... my honest advice, I would try to stay away from it if possible...
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 11:57 pm
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I believe ABM continued with building them in the late eighties, I had one. I think they no longer make them.
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2013 6:55 am
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| Thanks again for the replies. Damir Besic said he owned one back in the 90's and he would stay away from it. That is what I really needed to know, someone that had played or owned one. The gentleman looking at this guitar knows it has some sort of problem. It has 5 pedals and 2 levers and they want $650 for it which is a good price, that is if it works. |
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 29 Dec 2013 1:54 pm
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I had one, I started on a Framus in 1980. It sounded good, but was very hard to play. Stringspacing to narrow, kind of fingertiptuning, heavy action.
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Hans Holzherr
From:
Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
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Posted 30 Dec 2013 4:09 am
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| Framus was my first pedal steel. All I can say is.... stay away from it! |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 30 Dec 2013 4:35 am
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| I had a 8 string lap made by them before I got a PSG , it had little finger levers on each string that you could change tuning over easily. sounds very good. also had a 6 string tele shaped guitar as well.very well maded... |
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Joshua Gibson
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2013 1:53 pm
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Hmmm...from the pics shown it looks a lot like the Sho Bud fingertip changer.
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Hans Holzherr
From:
Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
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Posted 30 Dec 2013 2:15 pm
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That's correct, Joshua, the Framus steels have a fingertip changer. The one on mine would get out of tune at the drop of a hat. The floor pedals were like rubber, and it only had 2 knee levers hard to operate. All the while, their pamphlet stated that they had succeeded in building the world's best pedal steel. At that time, I didn't know any better and ordered my S-10 Framus with the C6th tuning, which the Framus setup guys failed to deliver.
It's the same story with the Framus banjos: 40 years after Gibson had created the perfect bluegrass banjo, the Framus luthiers had the crazy idea to reinvent the banjo, with an equally pathetic result. |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 1 Jan 2014 9:34 am
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I admit not knowing about a Framus steel, but when I was on the road our girl bass player had a Framus Bass.
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 1 Jan 2014 10:52 am
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Gene here's a well known guy playing a Framus bass:
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