It's a lapsteel, not a steel guitar...

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 12:32 pm

What do you do with a comment like this? $:\$

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 17 Dec 2020 12:44 pm

You can't cure stupid.

Erv

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 17 Dec 2020 12:55 pm

It's both a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 17 Dec 2020 1:00 pm

You can see what I responded.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 1:07 pm

Well said, Bill! I used to explain and try to educate, but I've given up on it!

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 17 Dec 2020 1:58 pm

It's an electric cheese slicer.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 17 Dec 2020 2:18 pm

You violated the prime directive. Thou shalt NOT read Youtube comments. It's crazy-making.
There's a question in there -- 'what's the difference between a steel guitar and a regular guitar?' and someone answered 'a regular guitar has a wood neck, a steel guitar has a metal neck'.
Why did I read that !!??

Noah Miller · Post by **Noah Miller** » 17 Dec 2020 2:29 pm

It's a small, off-duty Czechoslovak traffic warden.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 2:35 pm

Jon Light wrote:You violated the prime directive. Thou shalt NOT read Youtube comments. It's crazy-making.
There's a question in there -- 'what's the difference between a steel guitar and a regular guitar?' and someone answered 'a regular guitar has a wood neck, a steel guitar has a metal neck'.
Why did I read that !!??

I hear ya, Jon. It's crazy. I get about 50 comments a day on my vids and YT sends them to my Gmail as they come in. I scan through them and answer most of them... even if it's just a Thanks. A few days ago YT sent me my 2020 stats, and it said I responded to 9853 comments in 2020!

Mick Hearn · Post by **Mick Hearn** » 17 Dec 2020 2:38 pm

I was very surprised watching a YouTube video of Tommy White at a country concert, and a member of the audience asked "What is that instrument there?" and pointing to the steel guitar. No doubt this person was a country fan but didn't know what made the noises.

We have all gone through that one.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 17 Dec 2020 2:39 pm

People who take the time to say "that's great" etc....they do deserve a reply and I'm glad you do that. And I love that you arouse so much response.
But some of the saddest stuff I see on the internet is in the Youtube comments. Gaaa.

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 17 Dec 2020 2:43 pm

A hippie girl in eastern Washington once told me that it looked like I was playing a burial for two salmon. Maybe my tone stank.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 2:46 pm

Mick, I've heard people say "string guitar", slider, "iron guitar", "table guitar", synthesizer, and a lot of other crazy things.

Peter Jacobs · Post by **Peter Jacobs** » 17 Dec 2020 2:52 pm

We prefer “electric snack table.”

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 3:00 pm

Hawaiian cheese slicer is my favorite.

John Mulligan · Post by **John Mulligan** » 17 Dec 2020 3:59 pm

My grand daughter called my lap steel my "portable guitar" and another time, my "flat guitar." She was 8 or 9 at the time.

Christopher Blood · Post by **Christopher Blood** » 17 Dec 2020 4:09 pm

I've taken to calling mine a "String Trombone"

K Maul · Post by **K Maul** » 17 Dec 2020 5:17 pm

A person I play with here in Florida joking calls it a “lazy guitar” because “it just lays there on your lap”.

Frank James Pracher · Post by **Frank James Pracher** » 17 Dec 2020 9:07 pm

Once, when it was my turn to soundcheck at a gig. The FOH guy said "OK, now the guy with the table"

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 10:10 pm

That reminds me of the time a sound man hung a mic over the strings of my pedal steel guitar!

I had to explain to him that it’s not an acoustic instrument. I guess he had no idea what I was playing.

Scott Thomas · Post by **Scott Thomas** » 17 Dec 2020 10:54 pm

When I saw the Bellamy Brothers, they called it the electric sewing machine for some reason. (Pedal steel)

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 17 Dec 2020 11:01 pm

When I saw Dave Dudley, he told his steel player to “play that ironing board”.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 18 Dec 2020 2:03 am

Christopher Blood wrote:I've taken to calling mine a "String Trombone"

That's not a bad description

(I also play trombone, which is a kind of Bb6 tuning. High to low C,Bb,G,F,D,Bb,F,Bb)

Jouni Karvonen · Post by **Jouni Karvonen** » 18 Dec 2020 3:10 am

"Knitting machine" according to my next door lady.

Rich Sullivan · Post by **Rich Sullivan** » 18 Dec 2020 4:50 am

I was playing a job once with a lap steel that had a MOTS finish. Someone asked me where I got the electric bowling ball.