| How Many Lap Steels Do You Own? |
| One |
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11% |
[ 14 ] |
| Two |
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11% |
[ 14 ] |
| Three to Five |
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42% |
[ 50 ] |
| Five or more |
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33% |
[ 40 ] |
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| Total Votes : 118 |
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Topic: Lap Steels |
Steven Paris
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 2:19 pm |
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Including 6-8-10-12 strings
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Emmons & Peavey |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 2:36 pm
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| I have 2 six string lap steels. Neither is really anything special but I enjoy playing them. I think everyone has reasons for having multiple such as experimenting with tunings. I keep C6th on my long scale and on my short scale I change from C6th to a few other tunings when I wanna try something different. |
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Bill Groner
From:
QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 3:24 pm
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One store bought, 5 1/2 homemade. 
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Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40 |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 3:53 pm
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| Lap steels are like Lay's potato chips. |
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Michael Butler
From:
California, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2019 8:58 am
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
| Lap steels are like Lay's potato chips. |
they crunch easy! ha! 
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2019 11:46 am
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When it got to twelve I had to impose a one-in, one-out policy. Dual neck consoles still just count as one guitar though.  |
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Bob Russell
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2019 6:06 pm
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Chandler RH-2, Asher Electro Hawaiian Jr. and a Gretsch resonator.
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Lots of stringy things, many of them slidey. |
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Andrea Tazzini
From:
Massa, Italy
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Posted 2 Apr 2019 2:36 am
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2019 8:41 am
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I didn't count dobros and weissies. that makes my vote wrong by a significant factor. Puts me in the upper, absurd amount category
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Bob Russell
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2019 7:19 pm
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| Brooks Montgomery wrote: |
I didn't count dobros and weissies. that makes my vote wrong by a significant factor. Puts me in the upper, absurd amount category
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Oh yeah, forgot about my Weissenborn...
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Lots of stringy things, many of them slidey. |
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Lee Holliday
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 9:21 am
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At least five electric and nearly the same acoustic/resonators, your right I should have more!!!
lee |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 9:37 am
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| It changes from day to day, but currently, 4 electric steels, 5 dobros. |
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Joe Elk
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 9:42 am
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6 Steels 4 I built m self and 3 reresonoators One is a 10 String Dobo.
Joe Elk Central Ohio |
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David Weisenthal
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 11:30 am
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3 double-eight consoles, and 2 laps. I'm sure another will appear by the end of the year. I hang the laps up...looks cool.
Last edited by David Weisenthal on 5 Apr 2019 5:14 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Steven Pearce
From:
Port Orchard Washington, USA
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Don Barnhardt
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 4:17 pm
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| 15 and still building. |
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 6:35 pm
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Oh boy...I voted 3-5 and then immediately realized I'd miscounted. I have a little bit of "redundancy"...my very first lap steel (absurdly short scale Morrell student model) I almost never play unless I need a guitar I can fit into a suitcase diagonally to fly with. And my Mag doubleneck and Stringmaster triple are a bit redundant practically. But the tricone and the 8 string SX lap each get played a lot too...one as the acoustic guitar, the other as the portable version of my consoles, and the Fender 400 is completely its own thing (maybe it doesn't count as a lap steel admittedly). I would say after an initial frenzy of guitar acquisition I'm pretty happy with my guitars and don't find myself trawling reverb.com or the for sale selection like I did before.
Honestly, it's a plank with strings...one of the most transparent possible instruments ever devised...so I try (with varying degrees of success) to focus more on my playing and less on my gear (as a recovering gearhead). Still, as a bit of a museum curator type personality I love the idea of rescuing an instrument that would otherwise be ripped apart for parts or get bolted up on a wall as a display...and then play the music on it for which it was built. Preserving both the music and the instruments...
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
I hear the rolling surf calling
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 5:22 am
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| A dozen plus...and my wife bought the D-6 Stringmaster for me as a Christmas gift. She is fine with my collection. I am a lucky man. |
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Tom Cooper
From:
Orlando, Fl
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 10:51 am Lap steels.
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| Two 8 string, and one 10 string. Only gig with the 10 string. |
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James Honberger
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 1:17 pm
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I have 5 six strings, one husk waiting to be restored, and 3 builds going on.
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Paul Honeycutt
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 10 Apr 2019 6:30 pm
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| I just have one lap steel, but I have a double neck console. I had a few at one time, but I kept the one I played the most. I wish I'd kept a couple of them. |
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