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Clete Ritta


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San Antonio, Texas
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2014 5:36 pm    
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Hmm, somehow "tonebar guitar" never caught on? Razz I usually drop the word guitar completely when describing either pedal steel or lap steel to avoid adding confusion.
Jack Hanson wrote:
...I always referred to my D-10 as an electric table, or a cheese slicer....I'm gonna go with "electric cheese slider."

I told an audience recently that my pedal steel was an "electric cheese slicer". The singer grinned and looked over at me and said, "Well, Clete...are you about ready to cut the cheese?" I then leaned over to one side and said, "I just did!" Embarassed Big laughs! Laughing
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David Matzenik


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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2014 7:33 pm    
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I suspect the term slide or slider was a derogatory expletive used when a roadhouse blues-band guitarist found he was being paid after a gig in very small hamburgers. The bottleneck may just be debris from the eventual altercation. The term slider is preserved to this day, at our local "Sizzler."
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