Table Top Stringie Thing

Marc Friedland · Post by **Marc Friedland** » 21 Nov 2005 7:38 pm

I know we've all read posts before mentioning the numerous names people not knowing what it is, have called a pedal steel guitar. This one just happened to me this weekend, and it seems original and pretty funny. We were at a Casino lounge, where volume is sometimes an issue. The manager told our band leader that everything was okay, but could we do something about the volume of the table top stringie thing.
We were able to move my amp to a spot where I could still hear it well, but where its volume didn't bother anyone.
-- Marc [This message was edited by Marc Friedland on 22 November 2005 at 01:19 PM.]

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 21 Nov 2005 7:45 pm

Is it black?? The table top stringy thing?

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Nic du Toit · Post by **Nic du Toit** » 22 Nov 2005 1:36 am

..Yeah...

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Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 22 Nov 2005 2:23 am

Man,. I keep telling you guys, the name Pedal Sgeel Guitar is too many words. People can't remember that many. We have to change the name of the instrument to one word that people can remember.

I still say we should call it a TIFKATSPG.

(The Instrument Formerly Known As The Pedal Steel Guitar.)

I'm not fat. I'm horizontally enhanced.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 22 Nov 2005 5:07 am

That might work if it's played by Mr. Myxtyplyx.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 22 Nov 2005 5:17 am

You mean Mr. Mxyzptlk?

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 22 Nov 2005 7:05 am

Still like the
Horizontal Hawaiian Harp

I bought a cheap computer table to use as a steel work station tonight.
felt/rubber wooden mounts for a flipped over steel going on tomorrow.

Well the Thai guy I bought it from, Bok, delivered it.
I wheeled the table to the Sierra S-14; perfect fit, and for the bud too.

Well he sees the S-14... and all thought of getting paid left his mind.
He and the assistant were mesmerized.
WHAT is that!!!!

So I had to play it, they made the connection between it and a currently running
bank TV and radio ad with some nice Hawaiian guitar in it.

But then they started looking undernieth,
and making expanding contracting moves around their heads with both hands....

I flipped it over to show why I wanted the table, and they were still agog.

The boss made comments about my apparent IQ and coordination.
"No one in Thailand play this... it so nice,
nice, very nice!"

SO.. I guess we have another steel fan here LOL.
I'll have to get him a few tunes on a cd.
I bet I will get good deals on furniture in the future for sure.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 22 November 2005 at 07:14 AM.][This message was edited by David L. Donald on 22 November 2005 at 07:15 AM.]

pdl20 · Post by **pdl20** » 22 Nov 2005 11:40 am

Cousin Jody used to call it a Biscuit Board

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 22 Nov 2005 2:36 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>That might work if it's played by Mr. Myxtyplyx.

You mean Mr. Mxyzptlk?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I see I'm not the only Smallville fan around here.

Since Lex is aready a musician, maybe we can get the powers that be on the show have him studying the steel.

Or better yet, they could bring in the band from the Peter Fonda film "Race With the devil" in which the steel player is possessed. (If you haven't seen it, it's unintentionally very funny.) Since they've already had Lana become first a reincarnated witch, and then a vampire, it won't be too much of a stretch.

uh, what were we talking about?

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 23 Nov 2005 7:04 am

'Crazy Harp'

(I always got the x's and y's mizzed up.)

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 24 Nov 2005 12:01 pm

You mean that electric cheese cutter?

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 24 Nov 2005 7:21 pm

Or the Black and Decker Workmate !!

Jay Dee Maness · Post by **Jay Dee Maness** » 24 Nov 2005 9:25 pm

Someone ask me one time, if I could turn up the "electric table:

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 24 Nov 2005 11:08 pm

Well, some people can't even identify an oboe, and that's just four letters.

Jerry Tillman · Post by **Jerry Tillman** » 25 Nov 2005 3:28 am

I have been ask while playing my nonpedal steel,what is that a lap organ.Fill in your own blanks. lakeshrk

jim milewski · Post by **jim milewski** » 25 Nov 2005 6:42 am

a zither on steroids

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 25 Nov 2005 8:11 am

I had a guy come up to me at a gig to congratulate on my playing of the impesizer.
I think he meant synth'. When I told him it was a pedal steel he said;
"Oh, that's one of those wyamin guitars. I don't like them."
And off he went.

kyle reid · Post by **kyle reid** » 25 Nov 2005 8:59 am

If everyone knew what a steel guitar was, think about how common they would be, Hey. we got something all our own!

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 25 Nov 2005 11:31 am

"Oh, that's one of those wyamin guitars. I don't like them."

I like wyamin. I even married one.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 25 Nov 2005 1:40 pm

This one is still my favorite....
Mike Johnstone was playing his D10 on a gig once when somebody came up to the guitar player, pointed at Mike and said, "You guys are good,but the guy in the wheelchair is really good!"[This message was edited by Skip Edwards on 26 November 2005 at 06:27 PM.]

Joe Shelby · Post by **Joe Shelby** » 25 Nov 2005 2:32 pm

In the first band I was in, the drummer referred to my steel as a "rural synthesizer."

Joe.

Klaus Caprani · Post by **Klaus Caprani** » 26 Nov 2005 2:42 am

I was presented on the radio recently (was in a live broadcast with performing songwriter David Zink), as having played the "Steel Pedal guitar".
I've heard worse

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John Daugherty · Post by **John Daugherty** » 26 Nov 2005 6:20 am

I thought Lonzo and Oscar called that Cousin Jody thing an "epileptic lap organ".
I once put a sign on my guitar for people who liked to grab the strings. "MAFIA CHEESE SLICER ..... You toucha my slicer, I breaka you face".

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Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 26 Nov 2005 1:43 pm

I was presented on the radio recently ... as having played the "Steel Pedal guitar".

I seem to recall seeing it referred to that way in the liner motes to a Beach Boys album.

My comment about calling it a "TIFKATPSG" is of course just a joke, but in all seriousness, I think it would be better if our instument's name was just one word.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 27 Nov 2005 5:48 am

The GUITAR.

My PST13 is going to say 'Pedal Science Thing.'