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Rick Garrett Member From: Tyler, Texas |
posted 01 April 2004 01:36 PM
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Hey Jody, hope you're doing great! My first electric steel guitar was given to me by my dad and I steel  have it. Its a 1949 10 string Ricky and man could he make it sing. Rick Garrett |
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Bill Hamner Member From: Hueytown,AL USA |
posted 01 April 2004 06:42 PM
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First Electric Steel? Well let me digress a bit back to about 1949 (age 14)... my girlfriend's(now my wife) Grandfather provided a security service for downtown merchants. One night he found an old Acoustic guitar which had been discarded and left in the trash behind one of the stores. I couldn't believe how hard it was to chord that thing. Finally a local guitar picker told me it was a Hiwaiian guitar and was supposed to be played with a steel bar. A year or so later I lucked up on a used white 6 string electric Oahu with matching amp. I made do with that one until I bought a new D-8 Stringmaster in 1956. Bill |
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Ben Elder Member From: La Crescenta, California, USA |
posted 01 April 2004 08:44 PM
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1954 Fender Dual Professional (8/8; sn 289X) with original tweed case, $70, circa 1972. (With several Nationals, Gibsons, Supros and Ricks in between:) A Custom (8/8/8; no pencil marks; Roman numeral fretboards, sn T11X) again with the othsc, in 1994ish, $400; and I just completed the Fender Trapezoid hat trick with a Deluxe 6 (no case; sn 024X??) for almost what the Custom cost. |
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John Bechtel Member From: Nashville, Tennessee,U.S.A. |
posted 01 April 2004 09:13 PM
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My first steel was a Mother-Of-Toilet-Seat Supro w/Amp. that my parents bought for me in 1948. A little while later, I graduated to the Alkire EHarp for several years. Then two Gibson Console Grandes and finally a Fender D-8 Stringmaster about ’52–’53. Back just before I switched to the EHarp, I also moved to a Les Paul Guitar and Amp. combination, and used that for steel also. It's hard to remember all the different guitars and amps one goes through in a lifetime. Always wanting the best available and even when you might actually acquire the best, you still might not know it and keep right on l©©king! ------------------ |
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Bob Wood Member From: Campbell, California, USA |
posted 02 April 2004 09:48 AM
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Hey Jody, the only reason I can say that is because I'm one too! You think it's a good idea for us to be giving out our ages on the Forum?  Bob |
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Ray Minich Member From: Limestone, New York, USA |
posted 02 April 2004 04:51 PM
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quote: Did you try playing it with a violin bow? [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 02 April 2004 at 04:59 PM.] [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 02 April 2004 at 05:00 PM.] |
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Ernie Pollock Member From: Mt Savage, Md USA |
posted 03 April 2004 05:59 AM
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My first steel period was a ShoBud Crossover model, 6 pedals & 1 knee lever, the crossover was broken & it had 3 pedals hooked to the E9th & 3 to the C6th with the lever lowering E's to Eb on E9th and the C to B on C6th. Played good though to spite the crossover mechanism not working. I sold it & bought an MSA D-10 after that, that was around 1975. Ernie Pollock ------------------ |
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Wayne Cox Member From: Chatham, Louisiana, USA |
posted 06 April 2004 06:33 PM
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My first steel was a 6-string Silvertone. I worked on a farm all summer long to save enough money to buy it. The day it arrived was both exciting and depressing;no had told me I had to have an amplifier to go with it. ~~W.C.~~ |
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Bill Nauman Member From: Cresco,Pa,USA |
posted 06 April 2004 06:40 PM
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Mine was a Regal 6 string lap with a Regal 3 tube amp with one 8 in speaker Tuning was E A E A C# E My uncle bought it for me from my cousin who had just got a new Fender 400 He payed 75 dollars for it and gave it to me for my 12th birthday. The only pic i have of it has my dad's foot in the way! Bill in Vegas |
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Joe Miraglia Member From: Panama, New York USA |
posted 06 April 2004 08:11 PM
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Michael Lee Allen, My first was also a Alkire 10 string E Harp.Good tuning to learn on. Joe. |
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