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Topic: resources in London |
David Mansfield
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2020 8:17 am |
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| Does anyone know of a store in the London area that sells strings and other high-end accessories for steel guitar? Maybe one of the shops on Denmark St. ("Tin Pan Alley")? I'm Zoom-teaching a London actor how to play steel guitar for an upcoming film and finding sending everything from here to be frustrating. |
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David Knutson
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Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 19 Nov 2020 11:53 am
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I don't know about "in person" shops in the UK, but your student might want to try Thomann UK as an on line source. I think this is the right link . . .
https://www.thomann.de/gb/index.html
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Stephen Baker
From:
Lancashire, UK
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Posted 19 Nov 2020 2:47 pm
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| All music shops in England are closed until early December although some are doing click & collect/mail order. The guy to ask about steel in London would be Jeff Mead. He is a member of the forum. |
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Lee Holliday
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United Kingdom
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Posted 20 Nov 2020 1:08 pm
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I am not far outside London, what do you need?? Ron at NoTom guitars in Denmark street is a retailer, Newtone strings in the UK are a good resource. everything is pretty quick via mail order here, I have friends with sizeable steel collections also. Drop me a line if if is confidential.
Regards Lee |
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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 21 Nov 2020 5:43 am
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To be honest, I get most of my steel supplies online. Bars from Basil Henriques (his Ezzee-slide is all I'll use now) picks from Ebay, though I pretty much have a lifetime supply I reckon. Gerry Hogan's shop (Hogan Music) are great for steel guitar accessories too.
As for strings, what even are steel guitar strings? I just work out the gauges I need and buy (or find in my box of strings) regular guitar strings in the appropriate gauges.
I do sometimes buy sets from Newtone (in my preferred gauges) for convenience but they are still just regular guitar strings.
As all "non-essential" shops in England are currently closed (for some unexplainable reason steel guitar stuff falls into this category) online is his only choice.
I'm sure I could find a spare bar and a set of picks I could send him (though I use metal thumb picks) but wouldn't be any quickr than mail order. |
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