remote bar

C. Christofferson · Post by **C. Christofferson** » 3 Apr 2006 8:34 am

Have you ever misplaced your bar and grabbed your tv remote or cell phone instead? If you use the hollow curved battery cover part and play unplugged it resonates nicely and sounds like...well you'll see..!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 3 Apr 2006 9:19 am

No...But I found my Wallet in the fridge once.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 3 Apr 2006 10:23 am

Cold cash?

Jim Ives · Post by **Jim Ives** » 3 Apr 2006 10:24 am

Did you ever try playing the oven rack? Take a (unheated) rack out of the oven, take some light string and run it through the rack, anywhere. Wrap the string around your fingers and place them in your ears; suspend the rack by leaning forward so the rack doesn't touch anything else. Have a friend or spouse strike it gently but creatively with a spoon, knife etc. Sounds very cool, better when you have ingested something to alter your perception.
-Jim

David Wren · Post by **David Wren** » 3 Apr 2006 10:38 am

I used to play the solo on "Let me go Home Whiskey" with a double shot of Jim Beam, using the edge of one side of the bottom..., then drain the glass at the finish.... it was a real crowd pleaser at the bars.

Since I got my '95 lacquer maple Carter, not so much... lacquer,no liquor

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Dave Wren
'95Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Twin Session 500s; Hilton Pedal; Black Box
www.ameechapman.com

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 3 Apr 2006 10:43 am

Attach a metal Slinky to the strings right at the pickup, stand on a chair to pull the slinky up high enough to extend the coils, and play! (Somehow it reminds me of a Chas Smith invention.)

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 3 Apr 2006 12:45 pm

b0bby, it sounds like you found the bar ok, maybe spent a little too much time there.

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Howard

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 6 Apr 2006 3:43 pm

TRY A PLASTIC COMB FOR BANJO EFFECT

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 6 Apr 2006 3:53 pm

take that remote and hold it near your pickup then press some buttons on it...(maybe turn your amp down a bit first?)

supposed to make some crazy noises, havent bothered to try it out myself yet.

Michael Barone · Post by **Michael Barone** » 6 Apr 2006 4:01 pm

I was at a party some years ago, where an acoustic jam developed. I ended up playing slide on acoustic using a cigarette lighter. It actually worked well.

Mike

Kelly Hydorn · Post by **Kelly Hydorn** » 6 Apr 2006 8:53 pm

Shoot, up here to montanner we use an old piece of copper tube bout' 3/4" like for plumming a house with and bend one end up so's you can get a holt on it and it kinda gives you that tinka tinka sound kinda like one of those dumbro's which is popular up here since we just discovered 'Lectricity last week sure has improved my steel playing

Gerald Pierce · Post by **Gerald Pierce** » 6 Apr 2006 10:27 pm

I've played in several remote bars.
G.P.

C. Christofferson · Post by **C. Christofferson** » 7 Apr 2006 11:38 am

Chances are if one uses the phone reciever - while you've got somebody on the line - they'll probably be able to hear you, no problem.

Johnny Baldwin · Post by **Johnny Baldwin** » 7 Apr 2006 7:13 pm

And if you misplace your tuner, pick up a telephone....the dial tone is in the key of "F"

Chuck Hall · Post by **Chuck Hall** » 8 Apr 2006 4:05 am

Believe it or not!! I got my first steel on Sunday and the music stores were not open. I was in a real hurry to play but I had no picks or bar. Now fingers work but the bar? I used a d-cell flashlight battery. It got me by until I could get to the store the next day.

My friend, Frank Crawley, had a piece of broom handle that he used on certain songs. The drummer would tell him "get your mop handle and lets do----" The mop handle song. lol

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Chuck
Country Fever Band

Jerry Erickson · Post by **Jerry Erickson** » 8 Apr 2006 4:36 am

And I thought this would be some kinda Art Bell thing.