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Topic: The major figures in the history of pedal steel |
Ken Byng
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Southampton, England
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 4:46 am |
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| I am hoping that one day someone will have the time, knowledge and inclination to put together a book on the history of pedal steel guitar. I have been thinking who would take up some of the chapters in terms of importance to the instrument from a manufacturing and design perspective. Immediate thoughts are Buddy Emmons, Shot Jackson, David Jackson, Ron Lashley Snr, Zane Beck, Bud Carter, Maurice Anderson, Bobbe Seymour, Chuck Wright..... Gosh, the list could be very extensive. |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 4:48 am
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Al Collinsworth
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 4:55 am
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 5:03 am
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 8:15 am
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| How on earth could I leave out Paul Bigsby - he would be in chapter 1. |
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Kenny Drake
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Leesburg, Virginia, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 8:26 am
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| Good thread. Add Jimmy Crawford and Pete Drake. |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 8:28 am
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| Leo Fender |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 8:57 am
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| Did Leo design the mechanics of the 400, 800, 1000 & 2000? |
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Chris LeDrew
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Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 8:59 am
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| Rico Turchetti. |
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Hook Moore
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South Charleston,West Virginia
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 9:51 am
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Also, Paul Franklin Sr.
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Mike Brown
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Meridian, Mississippi USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 9:55 am
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| How about Hartley Peavey? |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 10:16 am
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Bud Isaccs, man what you guys thinkin, The Master..Jerry Byrd.
Ken,
I think I read somewhere that Gene Fields did a lot of design/engineering with Fender.
Jody...give us the scoop. |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 10:29 am
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In addition to all of the above, Herb R., Speedy, Don Helms, Jimmy Day, Vance Terry, Curly, Ralph Mooney, Pete Drake, Lloyd, Hal Rugg, Tom Brumley, Hughey, Herby, Cindy. I'd also incude something about the international nature of steel, and the new indie CDs.
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Gerald Pressley
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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 11:36 am
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| Ken--Bobbe Seymour eas going to write a book like you mentioned I don,t know if he changed his mind or just hasn,t had the time.. Bobbe is a busy man but would definitrly be the one to write such a book |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 11:40 am
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| Arthur Harmon...it all started with him. |
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richard burton
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Britain
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 11:47 am
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Don't forget British steel pioneer, Clarence Clue.
His musical craftsmanship, backing his singing partner, Norman Norfolk, is the stuff of legends. |
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richard burton
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Britain
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 11:49 am
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What, you've never heard of 'Norfolk and Clue' ??  |
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Jimmie Martin
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 12:32 pm
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| tommy young, dewitt scott, winnie winston. |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 12:53 pm
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Gordon Huntley, Roland Peachey, Rod King and B.J. Cole
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 12:56 pm
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| Did Leo design the mechanics of the 400, 800, 1000 & 2000? |
NO it was Freddie Tavares.. But because he was in the employ of Leo it's credited as 'Joint" development..
In early 1953 Noel Boggs introduced Freddie to Leo Fender who, at that time, was interested in building amplifiers. Fender realized he had found a man of exceptional abilities in Freddie Tavares. He understood electronics, could make technical drawings and was a consummate musician, playing acoustic, bass and steel guitars as well as ukulele. He hired Freddie as assistant engineer to himself and on Freddie’s second day of employment he started to create, with Leo Fender, a product that was to become the leading and most wanted instrument in guitar history - the Stratocaster. Until his retirement from the Fender Guitar Company in 1985, Freddie Tavares participated in the design and development of every guitar and amplifier made by the company and field tested the proto types before they hit the production line. He was renowned as the world's leading technical authority of the Jazz Bass and collaborated with Leo Fender to invent the split-finger mechanism for the Fender 1000 pedal steel guitar - later playing this model pedal steel.
Freddie continued his music career and session work whilst with Fenders. He was a founding member and long time treasurer of the Polynesian Society in California and derived great pleasure and satisfaction from playing rhythm, Stratocaster and steel guitars, also ukulele, on recordings of Hawaiian songs and Island medleys with his fellow Hawaiian musicians Danny Stewart, Sam Koki, Joe Keawe, Sammy Kaapuni, Harry Baty, Bernie Kaai Lewis, Vince Akina, his brother Ernest Tavares and other prominent West Coast based Hawaiians
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 1:04 pm
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 1:07 pm
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Historically preceded by Harlin brothers and Gibson, both pre 1939, and in the harlin brothers case pre 1937.
Both Pedal Guitar designs although only the Multikord mechanism was patented.[This message was edited by basilh on 17 December 2006 at 01:09 PM.] |
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basilh
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 1:14 pm
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| man what you guys thinkin, The Master..Jerry Byrd. |
I think this topic is about the very type and style that Jerry abhorred !
Although some of his slant combinations sought to emulate the A-B change.[This message was edited by basilh on 17 December 2006 at 01:19 PM.] |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 1:18 pm
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In the UK Nigel Dennis and Gordon Huntley were pioneer Manufacturers of the pedal steel guitar "DenLey".
Way before Norfolk 'n Clue ! even 'though the guitars were somewhat along the same lines.
Also what about the "Springfield" from the northern clan, and let's not forget Ron Bennett, by far the best of British.
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Randall Palmore
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Albany,TX USA 76430
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Posted 17 Dec 2006 4:35 pm
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| Tom Morrell, Danny Shields, Bobbe Seymour, Maurice Anderson I believe that MSA has got to be mentioned on the development of pedal steels |
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