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Tony Harris Member Posts: 348 |
posted 21 November 2001 03:24 PM
Anyone know anything about these steels? Thanks. |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 21 November 2001 03:37 PM
Never seen one, but I have heard they were a German-made Sho~Bud copy, but not a real good one. |
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Mike Perlowin Member Posts: 6731 |
posted 21 November 2001 04:12 PM
The one I saw several years ago at the NAMM show has only a single raise single lower changer. This model was called the Rodeo. I don't recall how many knee levers it had. Hopefully this was only their student model and they now make one capable of more raises and lowers. |
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Joe Henry Member Posts: 909 |
posted 21 November 2001 04:56 PM
They were not anywhere near a ShoBud copy. I actually had the occasion to play on an ABM once. It was an S-10 that had some resemblance to my old Framus lap steel; after all, it was the same company. It seemed to be made out of cardboard. There were no real pedal stops; it was like stomping on rubber. The owner told me he had a terrible time tuning it. (He normally played a Sierra; he bought the ABM just to fool around with.) Everything about that guitar looked and felt cheap. There are D-10īs around as well, and believe it or not, now and then some vendors here in Germany ask outrageous prices for them.
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Bob Mainwaring Member Posts: 918 |
posted 21 November 2001 06:44 PM
Joe - I think I might have owned one once while still living in England. It was a horrible shade of pink with no neck to speak of, the changer was built right on the end, the tuners were screwed right onto the body top. If I remember right - the "home-base" for the pedal rods (90o angled end)just came up against the underside of the body making a banging noise. I should warn any intending owner of them as they were not too good at keeping in tune, and might put them off steel guitars for life!  Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things. ------------------ |
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Gary Harris Member Posts: 101 |
posted 26 November 2001 09:59 PM
I purchased a double neck eight string "Roger" steel guitar in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1952. I still have it. It is in the attic of my little shed behind my house. It uses a special plug which I have lost. The Roger Company made all kinds of musical instruments at one time. |
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Johan Jansen Member Posts: 2207 |
posted 27 November 2001 11:44 AM
ABM steels, is the follow up from Framus steelguitars. My first pedalsteel was a Framus 2000, a D10 with 8 floors and 2 knees. It was made from an aluminum frame with a 1" Ahorn bottom and cedar necks. It had a tuning mechanism like the fingertip Sho~Bud. It was very heavy build, like a Russian tank. It also had the sustain like one  . You had to push the pedals with a sledge-hammer, but when you got used to it, and like a hard to handle steelguitar, you could fool around with it. It's very good to use as a work-out machine for the "Steelympics" In it's early days Bill Lawrence was involved for the pickups, and they sounded great. As well Andre Sommer (United Steels Of Europe) as myself played on it for more than 10 years and did a lot of sessionwork with it.These days the ABM steels, the pro's (D10) are similar to that old Framus 2000 steels, except they come now with 4 knees. If you like to fool around with an old Harley or pre-war BMW- bike, this is the steel for you ------------------ [This message was edited by Johan Jansen on 27 November 2001 at 02:06 PM.] |
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