posted 07 January 2000 05:49 AM
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Billy Robinson has two cassette tape albums available. One is called "Lap Steel Guitar Instrumentals".
The other is called "Lap Steel Guitar Instrumentals #2"
On #1, there is a picture of a 9 string lap steel that appears to be custom made. It is "guitar" shaped, and has one George-L pickup. There are 4 tuners on the left side, and 5 on the right side. The liner notes don't tell his tuning.
On #2, there is a picture of a Derby lap steel that has a mostly rectangular shape, and both a bridge and tuners that look like they came from a pedal steel (but no pedals or levers - he doesn't need 'em!). It has 10 strings. In the liner notes, written by Billy Robinson, he says:
"I play a Derby Steel on this album. My tuning is as follows from the top: D-G-E-C-A-G-E-C-A-F."
I got my copies of the albums in December 1998 directly from Billy Robinson.
Billy Robinson
382 Sunset Island Trail
Gallatin, TN 37066
At that time the price was $10.00 each.
There was a web page for Billy Robinson, but I can't get it to work right now.
It was at: http://www.pstl.com/MStore/robinson.htm
Here is a hotlink to it, in case it works later: Billy Robinson Web Page.
The http://www.pstl.com site appears to be gone. I've forgotten whose site that is or was. Maybe somebody else can explain it or provide a better website address.
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posted 05 January 2000 09:20 AM
