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Topic: Help needed with unconventional copedent - LDG 3x4 | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 7 Views: 703 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 17 Jan 2024 11:44 am Subject: Help needed with unconventional copedent - LDG 3x4 |
Hi all, and thanks for your replies. It was a long day over here for me - I did mean 1st string F#, not 4th.
I appreciate the affirmation to get on with playing, and the reassurance that wh ... |
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Topic: Help needed with unconventional copedent - LDG 3x4 | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 7 Views: 703 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 17 Jan 2024 12:04 am Subject: Help needed with unconventional copedent - LDG 3x4 |
Hi all. Over a year ago I posted here seeking opinions on whether I should convert a 3x4 to some sort of C6th S10 or to proceed with E9th.
Fast forward to the present day, and I've decided to start ... |
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Topic: New! - B8 Boxcar String Through Pickup | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 7 Views: 2082 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Dec 2023 4:45 pm Subject: New! - B8 Boxcar String Through Pickup |
What a great development! I'm looking forward to hearing how these sound. These are the first pickups I've seen that I'd consider retrofitting to my John Allison Stringmaster-style console... | |
Topic: Pomai Brown | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 3 Views: 750 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 14 Nov 2023 12:25 pm Subject: Pomai Brown |
Thanks Nick. Alternatively, if not a Sho~Bud then perhaps an Excel without pedals? If you told me it was a custom based on the Jerry Byrd model, I'd believe it. Obviously that particular axe is not a ... | |
Topic: Pomai Brown | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 3 Views: 750 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 Nov 2023 8:42 pm Subject: Pomai Brown |
A question probably for those who get to the various steel guitar festivals in Hawai'i.
Anybody know what kind of steel Pomai Brown plays? Great touch and tone! I understand he studied with Jerry B ... |
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Topic: Lap steel tip #4: the importance of simple diatonic harmony | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 21 Views: 4418 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 11 Oct 2023 1:09 pm Subject: Lap steel tip #4: the importance of simple diatonic harmony |
Dead keen, Mike - loved Steelin' Scales & Modes and Bebop Lap Steel Guitar. Count me in! | |
Topic: Dick McIntire 3 songs from 1st session 1934 | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 11 Views: 2943 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 3 Oct 2023 3:34 pm Subject: Dick McIntire 3 songs from 1st session 1934 |
Sublime. Recorded 14th September, 1934. The frypan had barely been available for two years at the time this was recorded. As Andy points out, Dick's playing is a turning point - a fully-formed departu ... | |
Topic: Steel Episode 2: Raphael McGregor | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 6 Views: 1238 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 27 Sep 2023 3:29 pm Subject: Steel Episode 2: Raphael McGregor |
Great episode, really enjoyed.
Mike: Not to derail the subject, am I right to assume to that Raphael namedrops the same Moonlighters you were apart of? Was there any crossover between the two of y ... |
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Topic: Rich Hinman and Adam Levy | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 2 Views: 447 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 21 Sep 2023 6:45 pm Subject: Rich Hinman and Adam Levy |
I second this emotion - Rich is really great.
I play non-pedal in C6th-centric tunings - and I don't see that changing - but I have been dabbling with pedals/E9th as well. I have found Rich's ... |
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Topic: Bronson Melody King Differences | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 4 Views: 2388 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 12 Sep 2023 7:43 pm Subject: Bronson Melody King Differences |
Two brunette bakelite beauties! I'll take one or both - we don't discriminate around here... | |
Topic: Hawaiian style on PSG | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 11 Views: 3925 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 4 Sep 2023 4:27 pm Subject: Hawaiian style on PSG |
Hi Rich,
Thanks for posting - I always keep one eye on your non-pedal stuff over in the other section! I love hearing Hawaiian played on the pedal steel and aspire to do so myself. Bill Stafford ... |
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Topic: Easy Hawaiian | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 13 Views: 1728 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 30 Aug 2023 2:17 pm Subject: Easy Hawaiian |
I guess it depends what you're going for, but I'd look at King's Serenade ('Imi Au Ia 'Oe), Green Rose Hula, things like that. I can't overstate how much there is to be learned from the very simplest ... | |
Topic: The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) Leon McAuliffe | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 10 Views: 1421 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 28 Aug 2023 11:39 pm Subject: The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) Leon McAuliffe |
I've hardly been able to get away from this song for the last month or two.
Can anyone else recommend later work with Leon's steel playing? I really love this, surely there are other "late ... |
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Topic: Where to put a fry pan volume knob??? | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 4 Views: 710 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 Aug 2023 9:47 pm Subject: Where to put a fry pan volume knob??? |
On top, treble-side is the only option for me. Put it anywhere else and you're removing the ability to make volume swells with your pinky while you pick.
Of course, you may use a volume pedal to ac ... |
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Topic: A6/F#7 tuning | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 10 Views: 1472 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Jul 2023 3:09 pm Subject: A6/F#7 tuning |
Thanks for the link to Michael Johnstone's playing. Phenomenal slants remind me of Billy Robinson, amazing moving voices that seem like pedal steel at first listen.
The Billy Hew Len archive, recor ... |
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Topic: Outtakes from 1934 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 7 Views: 1157 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Jul 2023 1:13 pm Subject: Outtakes from 1934 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel |
Incredible footage, thanks for posting. | |
Topic: A6/F#7 tuning | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 10 Views: 1472 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Jul 2023 1:09 pm Subject: A6/F#7 tuning |
I'm listening through the Billy Hew Len tapes again at the moment - and I am dead certain he demonstrates this tuning to Hal Smith. Will go back and dig for it after work!
Just love Mikiya's solo w ... |
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Topic: Photo - Jake Keliikoa and Jules Ah Se | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 5 Views: 604 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 5 Jul 2023 2:05 pm Subject: Photo - Jake Keliikoa and Jules Ah Se |
Thanks Andy and David, never seen these excellent shots before. | |
Topic: Short scale lap steel? | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 12 Views: 1636 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 4 Jul 2023 3:08 pm Subject: Short scale lap steel? |
Interesting point, Jeff. Mileage may vary, but I'm with Rich on this one.
Narrow string spacing creates a more acute angle, but my hand naturally wants to throw the slant a bit further anyway, so ... |
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Topic: Non-pedal C6th to S-10 3x4 | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 19 Views: 3720 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 7 May 2023 3:21 pm Subject: Non-pedal C6th to S-10 3x4 |
After something of a year-long journey, I received my LDG before the weekend and have got a decent strobe tuner and a wrench coming for the hex tuners.
I hope to update you all again soon, but aft ... |
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Topic: Remington S8 (Found One, PLS Close) | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 14 Views: 2385 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 4 May 2023 1:22 pm Subject: Remington S8 (Found One, PLS Close) |
Hey Mark,
Check out this thread in the For Sale. You might have to be quick with this one. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=391130 |
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Topic: Harmony Isles | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 34 Views: 10097 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 3 May 2023 1:01 pm Subject: Harmony Isles |
I have copies of George Lake's Harmony Isles tapes, but I don't have the means to convert them to digital.
I wonder if anyone here does, or has done this already? It would be great if these wer ... |
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Topic: Remington S8 (Found One, PLS Close) | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 14 Views: 2385 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 12 Apr 2023 1:48 pm Subject: Remington S8 (Found One, PLS Close) |
At the moment I'm playing a John Allison S-8 console. Plays like a Fender Stringmaster, with some aesthetic inspiration from National New Yorkers.
They run about USD $1100 new. http://allisongui ... |
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Topic: Jerry Byrd's F# min9th - anyone have his book? | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 4 Views: 1748 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 27 Mar 2023 7:24 pm Subject: Jerry Byrd's F# min9th - anyone have his book? |
I'll check the Byrd book after work today if nobody else beats me to it, but I'm almost 100% certain he would not have used re-entrant strings - I'm with you on this one, Joe.
Herb Remington appare ... |
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Topic: Graceful Ghost Rag | |
Levi Gemmell Replies: 6 Views: 909 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Mar 2023 6:41 pm Subject: Graceful Ghost Rag |
I have given this repeated listens - beautifully executed and love the work, Mike.
As someone who has always admired the great rag and stride players, especially Eubie Blake and Willie 'The Lion' S ... |
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