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Topic: Joaquin Murphey's last steel guitar- 9 string! |
Barney Roach
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Del Mar, California, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2019 4:48 pm |
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I stopped by to just say hi to my pal Jim Palenscar last week. I do not play pedal steel- but I spotted this cool instrument in the 2nd showroom, and thought it was just too cool not to take a picture of.
What caught my eye was that it is a 9 string . . . . .
and THEN I saw the sign.
Jim says it was made for Joaquin by Chas Smith. Hope you enjoy it, before someone snaps it up-
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Barney Roach
From:
Del Mar, California, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2019 6:32 pm Just now found a couple more cool ones to share-
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Barney Roach
From:
Del Mar, California, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2019 6:34 pm
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Shows you what I know!
Thanks b0b! GREAT article too!!!
Barney |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2019 8:21 pm
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| Murph spent many hours playing that guitar in my studio and played it on his last recordings. It lived in my studio for a couple years after he died. I finally had to let go and give it back to Chas. I did adopt his C6/A9 tuning as a non pedal tuning on my Stringmaster w/out the low C#. It was originally his main tuning on the T8 Bigsby he played with Spade. |
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Barney Roach
From:
Del Mar, California, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2019 8:49 am
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So glad you found this post Michael!
Are there any recordings featuring this steel
that you could post for us to enjoy, that have
Joaquin playing it??
That would be SO awesome!
Thank you so much for responding,
Barney |
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