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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Dennis Brion
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Atwater, Ohio USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2019 8:16 am |
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Wow!
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1969 Custom built d10, Fender 25R practice amp,Dunlop pedal, Peavy Special 130 w/15" Blackwidow, Gretsch resonator, 41 Gibson 7 string lap steel, Epiphone flat top, 67 Epiphone Olympic |
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2019 8:29 am
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Okay, I’ll stop whining about pedal steel being hard to master.
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 26 Sep 2019 1:03 pm Typical steeler questions about this instrument...
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So, is it tuned Equal Intonation or Just Temperament?
Does it come in black?
Is it a push/drop or all-fall?
Are those solid-state or tube tone bars?
Lotsa plywood there, was it made by Dekley or MSA?
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2019 11:10 am
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You’re right, it makes pedal steel look like a child’s toy, and it is an amazing feat of design and engineering with fairly simple materials (plywood, steel marbles, and legos - are you kiddin me?).
But, is this an example of doing a complicated thing toward improving something? Or is it an exercise in “just because we can� I realize sometimes such an exercise can lead to an accidental discovery that otherwise might not have been made. Maybe for this project it had nothing to do with making music or building design, but had more to do with teamwork, or tooling, or some other tangent.
Pedal steel looks like it’s much more fun to play. Or operate, or program, or whatever you do with that music box thing, which by the way looks like every roadie’s nightmare... |
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2019 12:46 pm
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I believe he’s a graduate of the Rube Goldberg Music Conservatory
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