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Topic: How long have you been playing steel? |
Joseph Barcus
From:
Volga West Virginia
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Bob Baringer
From:
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 3:06 pm |
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Playing 58 yrs. never had time to learn,  too busy playin' |
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Allen Kentfield
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 5:18 pm how long?
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I fooled with playing a flat top with the strings raised up (on my lap) in the late sixties. In 1971 I traded my '67 Tele and Vox amp for a 1937 Dobro. I got my first Sho-Bud in 1972, a Pro I. I think I had to wait about six months for it. I got the Pro-II (Super) that I play now at Heart of Texas Music in 1978. I got my Vibrosonic Reverb in 1979.
Al Kentfield
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Larry Jamieson
From:
Walton, NY USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 4:53 am
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Got my first pedal steel - an MSA Semi-Classic in 1973 and started trying to figure the thing out... So, I guess I have been learning for about 35 years now.
Larry J. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 5:26 pm
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Dobro and Lap Steel about 45 years. Pedal steel about 3 years. (I couldn't afford a pedal steel in the 60s when I really wanted one.)  |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 5:26 pm
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...duplicate posting.  |
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Gary Richardi
From:
SoCal, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2008 5:35 pm
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| I think I started on steel in '01 (started playing 6 string in '65). I keep promising myself to learn how to really play both instruments someday. |
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Marke Burgstahler
From:
SF Bay Area, CA
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 1:19 pm
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I've been playing the six string for 40+ years, got a Carter S10 about 3 years ago, but I've only really been playing it daily for about a year. The steel wasn't working for my band (blues/rock), but a new band I started about a year ago affords me the chance to play it a lot.
It's been said here before (and it's SO true)that the quickest way to "learn" this cotton pickin instrument is to play it with other people.
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"It Don't Mean A Thing If It Aint' Got That Swing" |
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Rick Winfield
From:
Pickin' beneath the Palmettos
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 1:34 pm how long
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In 1979 I bought a used Maverick. I had 2 young kids and not enough time so... IT had to go.
I never foregot about that sound. So finally, in May 2007,I sold some rock equiptment and bought a used steel. Sept 2008 I bought a brand new one, after selling the old one, and the last of my rock equiptment. That gives me 19 months. I know a whole lot more than I can do, but sometimes, it actually sounds the way it should. I practice every day between 1 to 3 hours. Recently, I've been working on modal scales.
I'm hooked and there ain't NO going back.
I can't see myself without one !
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 1:37 pm
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"It's been said here before (and it's SO true)that the quickest way to "learn" this cotton pickin instrument is to play it with other people."
Maybe, but, as my golf-pro incessantly reminds me whenever I complain that my game is in disarray, "How often do you PRACTICE, Roger?"
He's right - mostly I go out to the net for maybe five minutes, then I'm on the tee. That's why I'm still a 13.6 handicap, and not any better.
Steel? I mostly figure stuff out rather than practice whenever I sit down at it at home - two very different things.
Mind you, I wouldn't mind being a '13.6' on steel guitar!!!
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Roger Rettig - Emmons D10s, Quilter TT-12, B-bender Teles and old Martins.
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 1:47 pm
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| You think I'd be better after playing this thing half my life (26 years) |
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 6:01 pm
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I'm just a young dude, playing pedal steel since around 1968.
Hey Dick, long time since hearing ya.. Are you still using the 4416?
I've never plugged either one in to date.
Don |
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 12 Dec 2008 6:10 pm
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| I mostly figure stuff out rather than practice whenever I sit down at it at home - two very different things. |
Very astute indeed, Roger. I never thought about it before, but now, man, how different they are! |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 11:17 am
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Maybe the question should be:
"How long have you been playing steel competently ?"
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"How long have you been able to make some sort of musical sound from a steel ?"
or even
"Can you make a musical sound from a steel ?"
Having played steel for 40 years is no indication that anyone would want to hear one play. I've probably played steel of one sort or other as long as Buddy Emmons, but there the comparison stops.  |
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Harry Teachman
From:
South Dartmouth,Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 1:05 pm How long.........
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Too damn long and not long enough !!!!!!!!  |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 3:25 pm
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Hi Don,
Haven't used the 4416 lately due to the bands busy schedule but I got a new Jeff Newman CD so I hope to get some new tunes up soon. |
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 4:31 pm
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Dick, we'll be waiting to give a listen, for certain.
Darn, Alan Brookes is right! I sure do wish I could learn to play one of them there dang nab things.  |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Dec 2008 10:00 pm
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Just marking [60-yrs.] I started in 1948 on 6-str. Supro, than graduated to 10-str. EHArp, than D-8 Gibson Console Grande, then Fender D-8 Stringmaster, then installed 1-pedal in about ’54 and then graduated to a real D-8 pedal steel (Sho~Bud) in ’57. And now, since about ’80, I'm playing at both styles!
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<marquee> Go~Daddy~Go, (No), Go, It's your Break Time</marquee> L8R, jb
My T-10 Remington Steelmaster |
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Paul Foster
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 8:44 am how long you been playing
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About a month, Thanks to Mickey Adams I can play 3 songs {Not Well} but what a great help he is. I have a musical background, I play a little guitar, a little 5 string, bass player by profession, loved steel since I first heard Webb sing "Slowly"
What a great Hobby!!!! I love it and the forum is incredible, Found my last Sho-Bud here Thanks for all your help |
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Mark Treepaz
From:
Hamburg, New York USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 10:36 am
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Pedal Steel = 2-1/4 years.
Lap steel = 3-1/2 years
Trumpet/Fluglehorn and Bass Guitar = 38 years
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Sho-Bud LDG, Gretsch Syncromatic Lap Steel, Fender Steel King amp, Bach Stradivarious 37 Trumpet, Getzen Eterna Flugelhorn, 68 Fender Precision Bass |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 10:44 am
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I was in the house band on the Arc!
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 11:23 am 1982
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I began in 1982 with a Sho-Bud Pro. I practiced for 6 years before giving up. 1n 1993 I purchased a mint Emmons PP, and started over. I played it very little for the next 7 years. I traded it for a Mullen D10, that for an HWP, and now the G2...al tolled:...Im looking at about 16 years, and only about 6 now seriously...What a long process huh?
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Jon Irsik
From:
Wichita, KS USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 12:20 pm
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I played a bit from about 1978 until 1981, then I set steel aside and focused on guitar.
But I'm jumping back in......I just bought a steel last Saturday, so here we go again!
Jon |
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Allen Peterson
From:
Katy, Texas
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Posted 15 Dec 2008 12:31 pm
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I've got six months experience 52 times. 
Allen Peterson
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2008 D10 Rains Pedal Steel, 2000 D10 Carter Pedal Steel, BR-9 Lap Steel, Nashville 400, Nashville 112, '65 Fender Twin Re-issue, MB 200, Telonics Volume Pedal |
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