The Steel Guitar Forum

Johnny, first, I have to apologize to you for forgetting to give you credit for recording the St. Louis portion of the DVD. I assure you, this was an unintentional oversight on my part and not any kin ...

Bobby, most of these Hindustani players use 6 strings. A few use 8. None of them use pedals. In my opinion, A 6 string pedal steel with one or 2 pedals would allow them to expand what they are already ...

Thanks J.R. I still have about 150 copies in my garage.

As I've said previously, in 1986, Jack Lox produced a string of steel guitar concerts,most of which featured a single player, playing all aft ...

These might be of interest to the growing numbers of Hindustani lap steel players in India and Bangladesh.

On Sunday August 12, my chamber music trio will re-unite for a free concert at the Pasadena Library, 215 East Walnut Street, at 2:30 PM.

The leader of the group is violist Carole Mukogawa, who pre ...

I had similar excellent service from them. I didn't have any problems with mine, but I wanted casters put on it, and my Dobro simulator pedal (a Dunlop Q-zone,) hard wired into the effects loop. The f ...

Thanks for the invitation, but it's just too far away. It takes me between 2 and 3 hours to drive to Jim's, and at least 4 hours to get home because of the traffic on I-5. I'd spend more time driving ...

If you tune your first string to D (and you should), you must raise the 3rd string C to C# on a knee lever. Otherwise you're crippling yourself, in my opinion. That change is like the F lever on ...

it';s true, my Millies, and the 2 Classics I had previously, are universals. But I've never been able to get into the B6, in part because it's too easy to release the knee lever and get back in E9 if ...

Ian I have 2 knee levers, but I'm temporarily going to leave 1 blank. I'll figure out what I want on the extra pedal and knee lever after I've learned the basic 5 and 1.

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. Since I'm a newbie on the C6, I've decided to go with the standard 5 and 1, and leave the remaining pedal and knee lever blank, till I know more and then decide w ...

Hi Chris. At some future point, I will take the guitar to Jim Palenscar to be properly set up. I'll show him your design. He may use it.

I do not know enough about the undercarriage to make an inf ...

Lee, the guitar is in my rehearsal studio at the bottom of the hill. (Alongside my purple Millie and my amp.) After it's set up, I'll drive it to the house and wheel it to the top of the stairs and lo ...

Later today I'll be picking up a new (to me) black mica MSA D-12. I'm finally going to learn the C6.

It has 10 pedals and 4 knees. It's currently disassembled, and I have to rebuild it, The neck ...

How far is Vista from L.A.?

It's 89 miles from my house to Jim P's shop in Oceanside. How far is it from there?

Congratulations Dennis. I hope you love the guitar. I'm glad I was able to share my ideas with you.

Can you post your copedant?

The brand is unimportant. What is important is that the steel has 10 or 12 strings, 3 pedals, and 4 or 5 knee levers.

That will keep you busy for at least 3 or 4 years. Then, once you've got some k ...

That's great Jim. Leaving aside the superb quality of your playing, this is exactly the kind of thing we need to show the world that the steel is a legitimate instrument.

I hope you become a super ...

I was thinking the round picks might be cut in half, ...

I did that and put the pieces inside my finger picks. It was messy and awkward.

The grips themselves are great. They me be the answer we ...

This is a wonderful product for people play with a flat pick. But the round shape is impractical for use with finger picks. I wrote to Mr. Parsons, suggesting that he make some rectangular ones that w ...

Mike's CD is in my CD player as I write this, and it's going to stay there for a long time. The words
"Fabulous,""Wonderful,""Terrific," etc., have been overused so muc ...

Those new MSA Legends look so good, I almost wish I didn't already have my 2 Millies.

Hi Pete. There's another D-12 for sale about 10 miles from me for the same price. The current owner and I already shook hands (over the phone.) I just have to come up with the money.

Thanks for thi ...

Thanks Ron. Here is the tentative program.

1 Carl Orff: Oh Fortuna
2 Jeremy Gillian: Valentine
3 Morton Lauridsen: Dirait-On
4 Medley: Dancing Queen (Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus} and D ...

Hi Gang. I’m giving another concert at the MiMoDa Studio in Los Angeles. MiMoDa, which has concerts every week, is primarily a classical music venue that appeals to the Mozart/Beethoven community. T ...

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