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Topic: Who uses a 12-string bar to play a 10-string?
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Joe Alterio
Member From: Fishers, Indiana
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posted 31 August 2004 02:47 PM
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Hi all, After years of using a 12-string bar (and playing a 12-string steel), I have recently moved to a 10-string bar to play my 10-string steel.....and I find the bar to be very uncomfortable. I have gone back to my 12-string bar, and it feels much better to me, even though it may be a bit longer than necessary for its purpose. Sooo.....just curious if anyone else does this!  Joe |
Jim Dempsey
Member From: Belmar, New Jersey, USA
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posted 31 August 2004 05:00 PM
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I too started with a 12 string,then went to a Fessy SD10.I still use my 12 string bar.A 10 string bar just doesn't feel good in my hand.-Jim |
Rex Thomas
Member From: Thompson's Station, TN
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posted 31 August 2004 05:30 PM
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Hi, Joe. Always have, always will.
Although now the bar I use is 1/16" shorter than a 12 str. bar. But I used the same Sho-Bud 12 str. bar sold to me by George Lewis back in probably '69, could've been '68. Used it until '99. Forgot to take it out of the case when I sold my steel back then. |
KENNY KRUPNICK
Member From: Grove City,Ohio
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posted 31 August 2004 09:47 PM
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I use a BJS 15/16" 12 string bar on the double neck-10.I wouldn't want to use anything else. |
Jim Smith
Member From: Plano, TX, USA
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posted 31 August 2004 11:17 PM
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Ha, I do just the opposite. I've played D-12's for over 30 years. I've tried bigger and longer bars and always come back to a 7/8" 10 string bar.Slants just don't feel right with bigger bars, and I can get closer to Buddy's bar twirl (not there yet) with this size bar. ------------------
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David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 01 September 2004 02:15 AM
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I have a 7/8th double ended Twister bar,
which seems the best of both worlds.
Works on a 12, and no probolem for size on a 10. |
Scott Henderson
Member From: Eldon, Missouri, USA
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posted 01 September 2004 06:40 AM
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12 on 10 thats me too if i could find a longer bar i mioght use it too
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David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 01 September 2004 08:02 AM
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I'm with the other DD. I use a double-ended 10-string bar on my 12-string uni. The rear bullet nose slides on and off the low strings without catching. Never had a need for playing the 1st and 12th strings at the same time, but I have a 12-string Twister just in case. |
Vann Cranford
Member From: Ayden, North Carolina, USA 28513-7004
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posted 04 September 2004 04:57 PM
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I have been playing a Dunlop 12 string stainless sitar bar for most of the past 30 years on my D10 guitars. In fact, I had my machinist friend to hollow out one end of one of my 12 string bars. It makes the bar lighter and does give it a little different tone. So, I keep a solid 12 string sitar bar, a hollow 12 string sitar bar and a 10 string BJS bar beside me when I play.[This message was edited by Vann Cranford on 04 September 2004 at 04:58 PM.] [This message was edited by Vann Cranford on 04 September 2004 at 04:59 PM.] |
John Bechtel
Member From: Nashville, Tennessee,U.S.A.
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posted 04 September 2004 10:55 PM
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I'm not sure if he still does, but; Paul Franklin was using a 12-str. bar, according to Paul Sr.. ------------------
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Larry Clark
Member From: Herndon, VA.
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posted 04 September 2004 11:07 PM
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I bought a 12 string bar when I had a U12. I just kept on using it when I went to a D10. Now a regular 10 string bar just feels too short. Guess it's all a matter of what you get used to. |
John McClung
Member From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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posted 05 September 2004 01:24 PM
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Like Jim Smith, I use a 10-string bar on a D12. The extra length of the longer bar hampered important blocking I do with my middle finger on descending runs and scales, the finger extends past the bar nose and kills picked strings as I pull the bar back. |
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