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Topic: Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes |
Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 7:43 am |
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In one word?
My word would be angelic. Every now and then it makes tones that seem to me to be beyond this world. What one word would you use to describe that sound?
Rick |
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 8:01 am
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Wonderous! As long as I'm listening to someone else....
-andy-
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 8:15 am
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plaintive. ethereal.
clangy when I play, but Im getting better. |
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 8:17 am
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| The term "guitar-as-organ" has come to mind more than once. |
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Mark Metdker
From:
North Central Texas, USA
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 8:47 am
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| "BYRD"............ drop by the jerrybyrdfanclub.com web site and see for yourself. |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 9:55 am
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...how angelic it sounds depends on whether you are listening to the playback immediately after the job....or afternoon the following day! 
www.genejones.com |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 2:14 pm
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| Whenever I happen to mention to someone that I play steel and they ask me what it is, I tell them that it's the instrument in country music that sounds like it's crying... they usually get it. |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 2:27 pm
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| Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me. |
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Ronnie Long
From:
Yadkinville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 2:50 pm
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| I don't think I have heard this before, but my wife says it sounds like sex music to her. What do you think? |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 2:57 pm
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| I think you should keep playing. |
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Carlos Polidura
From:
Puerto Rico
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 3:01 pm
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i will let you know, just as soon as i find the word in my dictionary...
if i could find that particular word.
"HEAVENLY"??????
can someone describe it....please |
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Farris Currie
From:
Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 3:05 pm
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| well RICK, ain't no words to tell it. sitting here about drunk listening to Lloyd Green just makes me wantta scream more!!! can't git enought of that wonderful stuff!!! |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 3:32 pm
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Fandabidozi!
(courtesy of the Krankies)
p.s. You don't want to know. |
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Larry Harlan
From:
Hydro, Oklahoma
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 4:00 pm
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| Rick, the sound of the pedal steel is a sound, a music, that literally "itches" my inner soul. [This message was edited by Larry Harlan on 18 November 2004 at 04:00 PM.] |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 18 Nov 2004 9:41 pm
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Though I am a beginner with the steel, my wife has enlightened me about the sounds that are produced by the steel guitar,
“When you pick the strings too hard they give off a sharp non-pleasant, screeching howl; however, when they are picked softly and the bar slides are smooth, it has “a very sad” sound.”
Needless to say, I am concentrating on using my picks as picks and not hooked hammers and, running the bar as smooth and softly as possible. Hey, it does work.
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(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
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Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 4:35 am
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Sorry to be a kill joy but someone had to say it, the steel does not make music it is the player. That is why we refer to it as an instrument. It is all about the person behind the instrument.
Case in point, the voice. By it's self it is just a muscle in your neck, air passes through it and you have a cough or a honk or a wheez. Add a little soul and you can have singing.
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Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 4:52 am
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Obviously Larry the guitar just kind of sits there until someone picks it. But beyond that can you describe the music that comes out of it when its played properly, in one word?
Rick |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 9:03 am
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Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me
WHAT PAUL SAID. minus the baby cryin 
Terry
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Zum D10 /8x5 / session 400
steelin for my Lord
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Michael Dene
From:
Gippsland,Victoria, Australia
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 5:47 pm
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It's what you hear when sound thinks it's a watch in a Dali painting.....
Absolutely magic. 
Michael |
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Jennings Ward
From:
Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 6:21 pm
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GOD-SENT.
JENNINGS
WE PLAY STEEL FOR THE BEAUTIFULL ANGELIC SOUND.....
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EMMONS D10 10-10 profex 2 deltafex ne1000 pv1000, pv 31 bd eq, +
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Kenny Dail
From:
Kinston, N.C. R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Nov 2004 9:58 pm
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If Jerry Byrd or Buddy Emmons is playing it is like music from heaven. If I am playing it, it sounds plumb pitiful and excites my wife to say "if you dont stop that noise I am gonna throw that thing in the street."
Generally speaking of music and sounds of any instrument, It is like beauty, it's in the eye/ear of the beholder.
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kd...and the beat goes on...
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Nov 2004 4:23 am
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| Bud Tutmarc does gospel and Haw music. When asked why this combination, Bud says they both sound heavenly. CC |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2004 3:26 pm
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I play several kinds of music on the steel guitar, but I think I know what you're getting at. The tone of the instrument itself, with its characteristic sustain and note bending technique - how can we sum that up "in one word"?
The problem with "heavenly" is that most people would think of a harp. That's not the sound we're talking about.
"Twang" is the word that most people associate with our sound. I don't agree - very little of what *I* play sounds twangy - but what's a musician to do? |
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Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 20 Nov 2004 3:52 pm
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Hey b0b Lee! How about the word sweet to describe it. you know there ain't nothing any sweeter than some Lloyd Green E9th.
Rick
P.S. Sorry I originally posted in the wrong forum. |
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