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Topic: Possible to buy a Guit-Steel (junior brown guitar) |
Ben Godard
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Jamesville NC
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Posted 27 Aug 2016 12:39 pm |
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| Is it possible to purchase q guit steel like junior brown has? I know his was custom built but I thought after twenty some years of him playing one that maybe someone out there may build them for the public if requested. For a price of course. |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Bob Fraser
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Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 27 Aug 2016 12:55 pm
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| I think his (Junior's) website sells them. |
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Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 27 Aug 2016 4:02 pm
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Holy Cow. I can buy three steels for that much. Guess I won't be getting one after all
Thanks |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2016 4:52 pm
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When I get good enough to play like Junior Brown, I'll find a way to buy one. Looks like I'll have plenty of time to save up.
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Jeff Metz Jr.
From:
York, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2016 4:33 am
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Not the exact same design but I do know that RAM GUITARS builds a lap steel and guitar combo. very reasonably priced at that!
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Steve Green
From:
Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2016 5:02 am
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While it's obviously NOWHERE NEAR the quality of the aforementioned guitars . . . I picked this one up on Ebay for under $300, with a hard-shell case. It's neat to play around on, just for the coolness factor of having a guit-steel.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 28 Aug 2016 5:55 am
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I've seen a RAM Double Barrel at this years TSGA Jamboree, and Marc makes a top-shelf instrument. With case and stand, it comes in at just shy of $3000, and is totally worth the money considering the workmanship and design. Too inexpensive, almost.
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Chase Brady
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2016 8:04 pm
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I have a five string electric mandolin. I haven't done this on stage, but something I've toyed around with at home is putting a lap steel on a stand and using the mandolin along with it on a strap. It actually works pretty well. The mandolin is small enough that I can slide it around so that it rides on my hip when I'm playing the steel - completely out of the way. When I play the mando, all I have to do is step back and I'm clear of the steel.
I'll bet someone out there makes a quality travel guitar or maybe an electric equivalent of the old Tacoma Papoose you could do the same thing with. |
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Matt Berg
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2016 8:14 pm
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| Man that Double Barrel looks sweet with the CC pickups. I don't understand how you play the fretted guitar in a totally horizontal position. |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 3:56 am
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| Matt..Search for any available videos by Jeff Healey or Thumbs Carlisle, both played their six strings on their laps and fretted them with their fingertips much as a keyboard player. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 5:55 am
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| Actually, Junior plays diagonally, using a music stand that faces the audience. It's kind of splitting the difference between horizontal and vertical. He doesn't use a guitar strap. It's a pretty cool solution. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 7:43 am
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| Cartwright Thompson wrote: |
| Actually, Junior plays diagonally, using a music stand that faces the audience. It's kind of splitting the difference between horizontal and vertical. He doesn't use a guitar strap. It's a pretty cool solution. |
True. Looks like about a 30 degree angle...
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Matt Berg
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 11:52 am
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| Junior's position looks very natural. As for playing a guitar in your lap, I think we've established here that that has some proponents using bars as well as fingers. Holding a guitar totally parallel to the ground and your body (on the other axis), not so much.... |
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Jeff Mead
From:
London, England
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 12:16 pm
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Have you seen his latest invention - the guit=pedalsteel...
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Ted Smith
From:
Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Posted 29 Aug 2016 5:05 pm
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Jerry brought it up so here's the Melobar Telobar link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7tJnjxVfYk
One in the works now; $1,650 MIM Tele on top and tele-melobar 24.5 on the bottom. Fun stuff to play.
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Ted Smith
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Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Posted 5 Dec 2016 3:27 pm Dean Black
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good video posted recently of the Tel-O-bar double neck, in stage use, by Dean Black, this is an early model before the donor top guitar and the tighter spacing between the necks, but it still shows how it plays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3uqISxo9o
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 Dec 2016 6:06 pm
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I never understood why Junior didn't just use an A-B switcher...or 2 amps...I never saw any advantage to attaching the steel to the guitar.
Well, it sure worked for him, though. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 5 Dec 2016 6:09 pm
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Well he follows a guitar solo quickly with a steel solo and vice versa, so this allows for faster switching than having to pick up and put down a guitar. I know cuz that's what I have to do and it ain't much fun...
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