An Unusual Steel Guitar

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 8 Jun 2021 5:46 pm

Spotted on Facebook. Photo by Abe Levy. It appears to be an acoustic steel guitar. Either that or a medieval torture device!

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 8 Jun 2021 6:28 pm

Somebody been in Roy Underhill's shop?

Mike Christensen · Post by **Mike Christensen** » 8 Jun 2021 7:08 pm

Looks like something my wife might have mixed up in a bunch of her spinning wheels and fibre processing machines. Thanks Doug.

Nic Neufeld · Post by **Nic Neufeld** » 9 Jun 2021 5:54 am

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Now, Cardinal -- the six string rack!

Larry Carlson · Post by **Larry Carlson** » 9 Jun 2021 6:19 am

I may be weird but I'd like to play that thing.
If it doesn't try to bite me that is.......

Peter Harris · Post by **Peter Harris** » 9 Jun 2021 6:55 am

Careful guys...we're one step away from a caption contest here....

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 9 Jun 2021 7:21 am

must... not... caption...!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Jun 2021 8:07 am

Doug Beaumier wrote:must... not... caption...!

... because that would be humor and, well, y'know what happens to humor... $:\$

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Jun 2021 8:09 am

Doug Beaumier wrote:Spotted on Facebook. Photo by Abe Levy. It appears to be an acoustic steel guitar. Either that or a medieval torture device!

Just to be clear, would the torture be for the person who has to play it, or the person who has to listen to it being played? Just askin'...

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 9 Jun 2021 8:13 am

Mount a didgeridoo on that sucker and then you might have something...

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 9 Jun 2021 8:34 am

According to "Yelp!", if you straddle it with your shorts on, the Fender Steer-Maker has quite a plaintive sound.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Jun 2021 8:35 am

Jeff Garden wrote:According to "Yelp!", if you straddle it with your shorts on, the Fender Steer-Maker has quite a plaintive sound.

... as does he who straddles...

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 9 Jun 2021 12:39 pm

You’d have to be nuts to do that.

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 9 Jun 2021 2:22 pm

Really does look like a combination of a concert harp, a lap steel, and some kind of RoyCrofters contraption. A lot of big time guitar makers have gone towards the more "harp like" vertical load on the soundboard, which this one certainly has. Could be quite great.

Dave

Rob DiStefano · Post by **Rob DiStefano** » 9 Jun 2021 3:50 pm

Unless that contraption can fold up in some sane manner, it's not particularly gig friendly.

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 9 Jun 2021 7:17 pm

I’d buy it IF it comes with a case….

Peter Harris · Post by **Peter Harris** » 9 Jun 2021 8:42 pm

...we ARE all really missing that section, aren't we ?

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 10 Jun 2021 5:54 am

I miss it a little….

Stephen Abruzzo · Post by **Stephen Abruzzo** » 10 Jun 2021 2:48 pm

Looks like it could double as an avant-garde version of a crossbow!

Mike Ritchie · Post by **Mike Ritchie** » 10 Jun 2021 6:29 pm

NordicTrack's first attempt to "steel" some market shares.

Kirk Francis · Post by **Kirk Francis** » 10 Jun 2021 7:14 pm

clearly, this instrument was designed by the downtown businessmen’s association.

Jim Pitman · Post by **Jim Pitman** » 18 Jun 2021 2:10 am

Kidding aside, wonder what it sounds like. Note it has a harp like sound chamber.

Jim Pitman · Post by **Jim Pitman** » 18 Jun 2021 2:13 am

It looks like it has a wrist lever!

Peter Harris · Post by **Peter Harris** » 18 Jun 2021 2:19 am

Jim Pitman wrote:It looks like it has a wrist lever!

Let's all hope that's not what they strap your wrist to....

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