A pedal steel banjo? Really???

[Peter den Hartogh]

http://www.banjotailpiece.com/

[Jack Devereux]

I saw this thing at the IBMA Trade Show. Pretty useless as a musical instrument. Watched a bunch of guys (including the builder) sit down and try to wrench a tune out of it, nobody had much success. It was beautifully constructed, really top notch workmansip, but as functional instrument, not so much. Maybe somebody will come along and really figure out how to play it, but I kinda doubt it.

[b0b]

I actually would like a steel guitar that was styled like that, as a piece of furniture. The banjo part should hang on the wall, where it belongs.

[Alan Brookes]

... Kieth tuners on every string. The idea of it that I liked, is that I use about four different tunings on banjo so just holding down a couple of pedals, or knee levers, I could have all kinds of tunings...

I wonder if you could fit a Hiplock Trilogy onto a banjo. That way you could get a multitide of different tunings at the the flick of a few levers.
Another idea would be to put a Duesenberg Multibender onto a banjo so that you have palm levers.

[Alvin Blaine]

I saw this thing at the IBMA Trade Show. Pretty useless as a musical instrument. Watched a bunch of guys (including the builder) sit down and try to wrench a tune out of it, nobody had much success. It was beautifully constructed, really top notch workmansip, but as functional instrument, not so much. Maybe somebody will come along and really figure out how to play it, but I kinda doubt it.

The hardest part about it was the foot pedals were so far away that, unless your about 6ft6, you could only reach one pedal at a time with your toes. No way to get two at a time or rock between two. That's the only way you could use it to play melodies to be able to get more than just one string change at a time.

[Edwin Allen]

It seems like you'd.need to raise the action and use a bottleneck slide on that Beast!

[Barry Blackwood]

Buck Trent would faint dead away…

[Johan Jansen]

Mad Max 3.....

[John Drury]

Can't wait to hear "Bucks Bounce"!

[Gerald K. Robbins]

This is an old thread, but one of the funniest I seen.

So is the whatever it might be.

Call it a PSB?



And i've been a banjo fan for years.

And now I'm a steel guitar fan.

I'll not ever be a fan of the ???????, but it did help me laugh.

gkentr

[Lee Rider]

I'll bet it is tough to keep in tune with a flexible base to the bridge (banjo head). I'm building up a pedal dobro with keyless tuners. I did not figure the compression of the cone when I went with the keyless system. The NOS Sierra tuners I used did not have enough adjustment to counteract the compression of the head so I have to put on a couple of heavy strings to compress the cone then string up the other strings and replace the thick ones with the proper gauges. Having some issues with keeping it in tune while playing as the differential forces on the bridge when actuating pulls changes the height of the cone and the tuning. I see the same issues here. Work in progress....

[Lee Rider]

This is an old thread, but one of the funniest I seen.

So is the whatever it might be.

Call it a PSB?



And i've been a banjo fan for years.

And now I'm a steel guitar fan.

I'll not ever be a fan of the ???????, but it did help me laugh.

gkentr

Ped-a Jo?