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Topic: Four-Neck Rotating Steel Guitar |
Pete Bailey
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Seattle, WA
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 11:15 am |
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I just read about a 4-necked steel guitar mounted on a rotating block of wood in a Hank Williams biography. Kind of unwieldy I would imagine but the cool factor is off the charts. Just turn the crank and there's a new tuning front and center.
Have any of you ever seen anything like this?
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One of Hank’s surrogate fathers was Pappy Neal McCormick, a Creek Indian who led a band variously called the Barn Dance Troubadours or the Hawaiian Troubadours. McCormick was based 150 miles south of Montgomery, in and around Pensacola in the Florida panhandle. He played steel guitar; in fact, he had invented a four-head steel guitar. Four guitars in different tunings were mounted on a railroad tie that turned on a barbecue spit.
https://erenow.net/biographies/hank-williams-the-biography/3.php |
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 11:18 am
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| Yeah, there used to be one in the Country Music Hall of Fame or some other institution in Nashville several years ago. Don't know if it's still there. Don't remember anything about it or who it belonged to. Been several years. |
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 1:45 pm
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I saw one at the Hank Williams boyhood home museum in Georgiana AL, probably the same one referred to in the book... very unique! I know I took a picture of it but I'm unable to find it
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 1:58 pm
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a google search turned these up:
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1965 Emmons S-10, 3x5 • Emmons LLIII D-10, 10x12 • JCH D-10, 10x12 • Beard MA-8 • Oahu Tonemaster |
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 2:10 pm
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also this short but fascinating video on Pappy Neal McCormick:
https://youtu.be/g5QepzQxF2E
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1965 Emmons S-10, 3x5 • Emmons LLIII D-10, 10x12 • JCH D-10, 10x12 • Beard MA-8 • Oahu Tonemaster |
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Pete Bailey
From:
Seattle, WA
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Posted 17 Jan 2023 5:00 pm
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| Wow, even better than I imagined. The PBS video was really interesting! Thanks everyone. |
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Chance Wilson
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California, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2023 11:51 pm
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I don’t know if this book has been mentioned yet:
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