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Mike DiAlesandro
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Kent, Ohio
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Posted 18 Apr 2020 3:44 am |
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Sold off-site.
Built by Herb Remington, steel guitar player for Bob Wills. 3 pedals and 3 knee levers. Triple raise, triple lower changer. Looks to have a Lawrence 710 pickup.
This steel sounds great and looks great too. Well machined aluminum parts, with square cross-shafts, delrin bushings and Fessenden rod pullers. Gauged rollers milled from brass, Very well constructed, perfect for any level of player or situation.
Basic Emmons pedal setup, with the Left knee levers raising and lowering the E's. I put and interesting combination on RKR, it raises string 1 a half tone, and lowers string 2 a half tone. This works well for a 3 lever setup, as you are able to get your upper register 7th tones in both the open, and pedals down position.
New strings installed, tuned up and oiled.
The original grey ozite case is included in the sale.
https://steelguitarsohio.com/for-sale
Last edited by Mike DiAlesandro on 29 Apr 2020 3:04 pm; edited 10 times in total |
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Mike DiAlesandro
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Kent, Ohio
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Posted 19 Apr 2020 3:16 am
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Al Vesel
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Chisholm, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2020 5:28 pm Remington Sustain Master
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Mike,
These are great guitars!!! I've had a couple and no complaints.
Good luck on your sale.
Al
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Mike DiAlesandro
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Kent, Ohio
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Posted 26 Apr 2020 10:39 am About Herb :-)
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Herb Remington worked for Bob Wills from June 1946 until June 1950. Herb declares: “By then I’d had my fill of one-nighters and I went out to California to join Hank Pennies band who was doing well in Los Angeles. Another band I played with was T. Texas Tyler who was also hot at the time. Los Angeles was real fickle when it came to western swing or country music. Bands came up, went down and disappeared…jobs weren’t plentiful. Speedy West was in L.A. when they had that big record strike. Knowing that the strike was ahead and they wouldn’t be able to record any more they got it all done then. Speedy got on all the recording sessions in Hollywood. The union rates were $400 per session and he’d do three or four of those a day every week for months….Oh boy did he have a pile of money!!! That was fortunate for Speedy, but there wasn’t any room for anyone else, so I got out of there. Huston had a bunch of western swing bands, so I came back there. I met a girl, fell in love and got married…that took care of all of that!!! She knew what I was doing and didn’t try to pull me out of it, and I’ve been in it ever since!
In 1948 Herb Remington started building his own steel guitars. “I started building pedal steel, because I thought that there was a need for a better steel guitar! I made some good ones and sold quite a few. It then kinda died on the vine. Triple-neck Remington Steel GuitarInterest in non-pedal steel…like a lap steel became fashionable and so I got into that. I should have done it long ago when there was a need for it. Fender built fine steel guitars, but they stopped making them. So I came in at the right time, and now I’m up to my neck in making non-pedal steels (laughs). Single necks, double neck and also triple necks and I’ve sold quite a few in the U.K. My good friend Gerry Hogan in Berkshire (well known British steel guitarist who with his band Hogan’s Heroes performs regularly with Top British guitarist Albert Lee) has a steel guitar dealership and has a steel guitar get-together every year (The British Steel Guitar Festival, Newbury). Steel guitarists come form all over Europe to play at the convention there.
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Mike DiAlesandro
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Kent, Ohio
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Posted 28 Apr 2020 7:29 am
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Jim Saunders
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Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Apr 2020 8:19 am Remington Steel
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| This is a great buy for a professional steel. It was probably assembled by the late Bobby Bowman, another ex-Bob Wills player and a great technician. |
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