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Topic: Tone bar |
Janusz Achtabowski
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Poland
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Posted 13 Sep 2020 1:54 pm |
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| Which tone bar is best for 6 string. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 13 Sep 2020 4:18 pm
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Acoustic? Electric? What's your budget?
I like the Dunlop 921 Jerry Byrd bullet tone bar and the Dunlop Lap Dawg dobro bar. There are a lot of other good options, though.
Here's a previous discussion that might be helpful.
Thomann Music carries a good range of tone bars at competitive prices.
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Janusz Achtabowski
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Poland
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 12:21 am
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| The previous discussion opened my eyes a bit. I am a self-taught beginner. In my country, "lap steel" is not popular and you cannot buy a "tone bar". I play electric guitar. Currently I have cheap Chinese but it is probably too long. I have 6 strings. My budget "medium". Please enter the name because I do not know what to look for. Thank you. |
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 7:19 am
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This is considered a Dobro bar, for acoustic style resophonic guitars
Dunlop 926 “Lap Dawgâ€
This is considered a steel guitar “bullet†bar with the rounded end
Dunlop 919 Stainless Steel Tone Bar
Get one of each type and decide which one you like better.
https://www.elderly.com/collections/category_slides?_=pf&pf_st_stock_status=true
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 7:39 am
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The style of music you want to play may (or may not) impact what type of bar you get. Dobro / bluegrass players tend to favor the one above on top...it is better in general for hammer-on and pull-off playing with open strings I've heard. Hawaiian players mostly all say its essential to have a bullet style bar (the one on the bottom). Rounded nose is good for doing split bar slants, and the indent in the back end of the bar is helpful to give your thumb grip for reverse slants. Try both, I'd say.
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Brett Day
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Pickens, SC
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 10:57 am
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| On dobro, I use a Dunlop dobro bar-I think it's an SP-2. Because of cerebral palsy in my left hand, I had to try different bars-first using my Sacred Steel bar that I got from the ISGC in '03-I use it for pedal steel, but then I visited with a friend of mine here in Pickens, South Carolina, who is a guitar player and engineer, and he wanted me to try out a Dunlop SP-2 dobro bar, and at first I wasn't sure if I could handle it, so he took the bar out to his machine shop, and worked with the bar so I could handle it on dobro. I use the bar at Thursday and Friday night jam sessions and I also use it when playing dobro in my church's band. |
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Brad Richard
From:
Chisago City, Minnesota
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 2:34 pm
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
This is considered a Dobro bar, for acoustic style resophonic guitars
Dunlop 926 “Lap Dawgâ€
This is considered a steel guitar “bullet†bar with the rounded end
Dunlop 919 Stainless Steel Tone Bar
Get one of each type and decide which one you like better.
https://www.elderly.com/collections/category_slides?_=pf&pf_st_stock_status=true
Your English is exactly 1000% better than my Polish... |
I use both of these and am well pleased. There may be more expensive bars, maybe even better bars, but they work great for me. |
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David Irving
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South Australia, Australia
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 7:36 pm
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There's also a modified Dobro-style bar which has a rounded end:
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