posted 27 May 2001 04:15 PM         

Anyone can still play all the Tab and everything on B6 that they now play on C6.

This would be a good start for D10 players to get used to the Bar positions on B6, so if they went to U12, they would be used to it. It's a start!

But folks,Reece Anderson (Not in the Hall of Fame???), again, has said it all and so very true.

I believe that somewhere down the road, in the future, Most all of your children and grand children , who play a Pedal Steel Guitar, will be doing it on a S12, or even a S13, or S14.

How many have seen the S12, 5 pedal 5 knee lever Universal E9/B6 on Carter's "ask bud" website? It is all there for most kinds of playing and C pedal not needed, the E to F# is on a knee. Very simple and comfortable.

Emmons had better start building S12's again or they will be losing a lot of new sales , as they are now to companies building S12's...........al

[This message was edited by Al Marcus on 27 May 2001 at 07:34 PM.]

posted 27 May 2001 05:19 PM         

But I am sure that Curly Chalker would have no problem playing a U12, and Buddy Emmons can play "Nightlife" on a U12 very nicely, thank you.

When I first started playing Hawaiian guitar, the STANDARD was a 6 string wooden guitar.

Then we moved on and the 6 string electric(supro,national,etc) was the STANDARD.

Then moved on again to 8 and 10 string single , and it was for a while the STANDARD.

Then moving on to a Double 8 string and IT was the STANDARD.

Then Bigsby (for one) put a couple of pedals on one of those necks, Everyone had to have one of those.

Then the big change in about 1940. Gibson built the 6 pedal 8 string single neck Electra-Harp and the Multi-Kord came out too , a single neck 8 string 6 pedal .

Neither of these became standard, (although many were sold.) It was to me, as I played that Gibson for about 20 years.

The nearest steel guitar that I see as STANDARD on the market, is a Single 10 E9 tuning with 3 pedals and the usual 2 knee levers.(raising and lowering the E's). It is good enough for a beginner or a professional.

Jeff, I see the STANDARD as a MOVING TARGET, always evolving and changing over time.

Someday in the future , we may have a STANDARD, but there is None Now.
Thankfully .....al

[This message was edited by Al Marcus on 27 May 2001 at 07:16 PM.]

posted 28 May 2001 03:58 PM         

Joe Henry
S-12 non-Universal

[This message was edited by Joe Henry on 29 May 2001 at 09:50 AM.]