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Topic: Jerry Byrd tone bar |
Ken Campbell
From:
Ferndale, Montana
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Posted 2 May 2014 4:14 am |
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Hey everyone. I recently bought a Jerry Byrd tone bar from Butch at BJS bars to use on my new lap steel. If you haven't tried a BJS bar you should. Anyway I thought I'd try it out on my Pedal Steel and even though it's shorter I was amazed! It feels livelier. Anyone else use a short 8 string bar on their 10 string?
Kc |
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Jim Saunders
From:
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
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Posted 2 May 2014 5:08 am Bar
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| Herb Remington uses a small bar. I was in his shop several years ago and he explained his reasons, mostly for control. And explained that the bar only covers 4 strings at the most, and usually just two, so why use a big bar. His thoughts, not mine. Herb also does a lot of bar pointing for single string notes. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 2 May 2014 8:16 am I have to agree with you.............
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I use an Emmons bar on my Emmons 10-string, It's a little heavier than my Jerry Byrd bar and quite a bit shorter. I use Jerry's size on my seven string Ric'. Could never understand WHY.......anyone would need a longer bar. Does size really count?
As stated above......only about four strings are covered at a time unless it's a special occasion. |
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Ken Campbell
From:
Ferndale, Montana
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Posted 2 May 2014 2:10 pm
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Good stuff. I never thought about it as covering x number of strings but now that I have....
Thanks much..... |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 7 May 2014 11:01 pm
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Slant.
There are tons of forward slants and somewhat less useful backslants. The forward ones bring up even more of the 6ths to 9ths which are all over a C6th tuning. And there are shapes in a slant that infer leaving out a string in the middle of the slant, same as the straight-bar "grips." Someone told that those can even be made to work!
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Adam Nero
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 7:47 pm
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Sometimes I like a bigger bar for its tonality even if not its functionality, if that makes any sense. While a smaller bar lends itself to more slanting options, in those contexts where that's unnecessary, I really dig a heavier bar because it just sounds different.
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2 cheap dobros, several weird old lap steels, and one lifelong ticket to ride on the pedal steel struggle bus. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jack Aldrich
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2014 9:17 am
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Early on, (and sometimes still) I had a bad tendency to lift the bar between notes, so my teacher at the time(don't remember his name) got me a huge steel that was too heavy to lift. I quit using it after I learned not to lift the steel off the strings. I use a Jerry Byrd bar for non-pedal and some pedal work, and I use my old Emmons bar for pedal steel. The longer bar helps with some of the big throws on the C6 neck ("Night Life", e.g.). I think my bad habit came because I played Dobro before steel, and I learned left hand blocking.
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Jack Aldrich
Carter & ShoBud D10's
D8 & T8 Stringmaster
Rickenbacher B6
3 Resonator guitars
Asher Alan Akaka Special SN 6
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