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Topic: Steel guitar chords as presented 100 years ago |
Andy Volk
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 14 Apr 2017 9:51 pm |
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Very interesting. Nice find, Andy. Old man Guckert, however, seems to struggle with the limitations of the steel guitar when it comes to minor chords.  |
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David M Brown
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Posted 15 Apr 2017 6:15 am
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| Guy Cundell wrote: |
| Very interesting. Nice find, Andy. Old man Guckert, however, seems to struggle with the limitations of the steel guitar when it comes to minor chords. |
Well, at least the limitations of the A low bass tuning in regards to minor chords! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 15 Apr 2017 6:29 am
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Mr. Guckert also wrote books for piano, violin, organ, guitar, mandolin, uke, banjo, etc. His sales pitch was "no notes, no teacher required". Just chord diagrams and text explaining technique. He could have used a proofreader though ...steel giutar. I wonder how much steel guitar he actually played? Sounds like he was pretty busy teaching a lot of other instruments.
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Andy Volk
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Posted 15 Apr 2017 10:28 am
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Putting his eggs in multiple baskets, I guess. Folks sometimes post here that in the pre-web age it was hard to find out info about steel guitar. It really was something of a cult instrument that's become much more mainstream over the years.
Think about 100 years ago; there was almost nothing out there and most of what was available assumed a high level of musical acumen ... reading music, reading complex rhythms, etc. Guckert went for the lowest common denominator on the one hand, on the other, it's a nice piece of information design.
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David M Brown
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Posted 16 Apr 2017 5:59 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| He could have used a proofreader though ...steel guitar. I wonder how much steel guitar he actually played? Sounds like he was pretty busy teaching a lot of other instruments. |
Several of those old steel guitar arrangements I've seen are suspect in that I wonder if the "arranger" did more than look at a fingerboard chart...and never actually played it on a real lap steel.
Yes, many arrangements are quite playable - and a lot are just not playable as written.
Like you, I wonder about the actual playing level of some of the "arrangers". |
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