Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar,slide or steel?

Alexander Stepanenko · Post by **Alexander Stepanenko** » 29 Jan 2013 10:32 pm

Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar, slide or steel? As you say?

Edward Meisse · Post by **Edward Meisse** » 29 Jan 2013 10:57 pm

I don't understand the question. Suspect your english may be faulty.

William Lake · Post by **William Lake** » 30 Jan 2013 12:02 am

Alex, all are correct, but I think most of us in U.S. or Canada call it a steel. Tone bar is quite common too. We would understand what you meant by any of those names.

Edit: After a good nights sleep, I'll change my reply.
The most common term is simply "bar".

Tom Snook · Post by **Tom Snook** » 30 Jan 2013 2:45 am

Alex,what kind of music did you first hear steel guitar on,Hawaiian or Western Swing?

George Rout · Post by **George Rout** » 30 Jan 2013 4:08 am

Hi Alexander. Your question is valid today.

When I took Hawaiian guitar lessons in 1948 in Halifax, it was only called a "steeL'. I think because over those years, the material was not only steel, the word "bar" was more appropriate.

Today, a style of playing and the guitar is often referred to as "playing slide guitar", and the "bar" is sometimes called the "slide"!!!!

What music do you play?

George

Tony Lombardo · Post by **Tony Lombardo** » 30 Jan 2013 5:59 am

By process of elimination I call mine a bar. I eliminated "steel" from the title because mine is made of some sort of polymer, and I eliminated "tone" because my tone is so bad. (That's 100% my fault, not the bar's.) Maybe in a year or so I'll allow myself to call it a tone bar if my tone improves significant;y.

Tony L.

Thomas Temple · Post by **Thomas Temple** » 30 Jan 2013 6:57 am

Tony,
Using your logic... which I can't fault I think I'd better starting calling mine a squack bar.

Alexander Stepanenko · Post by **Alexander Stepanenko** » 30 Jan 2013 7:49 am

http://www.steelguitarshopper.com/D-920-tone-bar/

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George Rout · Post by **George Rout** » 30 Jan 2013 9:32 am

Hi Alexander. Yes, as time goes on names get changed. Look at the pictures below. This is from one of my books copyrighted 1916.

There's Mr. Peterson himself all decked out. Look at this bar hand, it looks like the bar is in a "tilt" position but his fingers are all spread out!!!!!!!!!

Lots of fun.

Geo

Alexander Stepanenko · Post by **Alexander Stepanenko** » 30 Jan 2013 11:00 am

George Rout,thanks!

it is a steel

it is a slide

It,s a tone bar

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George Rout · Post by **George Rout** » 30 Jan 2013 11:33 am

Hi Alexander:
The top pic is a 1. steel, OR 2. (tone)bar, OR 3. slide

The center pic is a 1. glass slide

The bottom pic is the same as the top pic.

George

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Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar,slide or steel?

Than you play on the steel guitar? Tone bar,slide or steel?

Just curious?

By any other name