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Topic: Can you describe the music a Steel Guitar makes
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Rick Garrett
Member From: Tyler, Texas
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posted 18 November 2004 07:43 AM
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In one word?My word would be angelic. Every now and then it makes tones that seem to me to be beyond this world. What one word would you use to describe that sound? Rick |
Andy Zynda
Member From: Wisconsin
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posted 18 November 2004 08:01 AM
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Wonderous! As long as I'm listening to someone else....
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Randy Reeves
Member From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 08:15 AM
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plaintive. ethereal.
clangy when I play, but Im getting better. |
James Cann
Member From: Phoenix, AZ (heart still in Boston)
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posted 18 November 2004 08:17 AM
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The term "guitar-as-organ" has come to mind more than once. |
Mark Metdker
Member From: North Central Texas, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 08:19 AM
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When I play it, it sounds like a couple of cats fighting.A John Hughey ballad solo...the sound would be "celestial" ------------------
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Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 08:47 AM
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"BYRD"............ drop by the jerrybyrdfanclub.com web site and see for yourself. |
Gene Jones
Member From: Oklahoma City, OK USA
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posted 18 November 2004 09:55 AM
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...how angelic it sounds depends on whether you are listening to the playback immediately after the job....or afternoon the following day!  www.genejones.com |
Steve Hitsman
Member From: Waterloo, IL
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posted 18 November 2004 02:14 PM
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Whenever I happen to mention to someone that I play steel and they ask me what it is, I tell them that it's the instrument in country music that sounds like it's crying... they usually get it. |
Paul King
Member From: Gainesville, Texas, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 02:27 PM
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Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me. |
Ronnie Long
Member From: Yadkinville, North Carolina, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 02:50 PM
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I don't think I have heard this before, but my wife says it sounds like sex music to her. What do you think? |
Jim Cohen
Member From: Philadelphia, PA
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posted 18 November 2004 02:57 PM
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I think you should keep playing. |
Carlos Polidura
Member From: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 03:01 PM
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i will let you know, just as soon as i find the word in my dictionary...
if i could find that particular word. "HEAVENLY"?????? can someone describe it....please |
Farris Currie
Member From: Ona, Florida, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 03:05 PM
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well RICK, ain't no words to tell it. sitting here about drunk listening to Lloyd Green just makes me wantta scream more!!! can't git enought of that wonderful stuff!!! |
Archie Nicol
Member From: Ayrshire, Scotland
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posted 18 November 2004 03:32 PM
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Fandabidozi!
(courtesy of the Krankies)
p.s. You don't want to know. |
Larry Harlan
Member From: Thomas, OK, USA
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posted 18 November 2004 04:00 PM
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Rick, the sound of the pedal steel is a sound, a music, that literally "itches" my inner soul.[This message was edited by Larry Harlan on 18 November 2004 at 04:00 PM.] |
Les Anderson
Member From: Rossland, BC, Canada
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posted 18 November 2004 09:41 PM
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Though I am a beginner with the steel, my wife has enlightened me about the sounds that are produced by the steel guitar, “When you pick the strings too hard they give off a sharp non-pleasant, screeching howl; however, when they are picked softly and the bar slides are smooth, it has “a very sad” sound.” Needless to say, I am concentrating on using my picks as picks and not hooked hammers and, running the bar as smooth and softly as possible. Hey, it does work.
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Larry Behm
Member From: Oregon City, Oregon
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posted 19 November 2004 04:35 AM
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Sorry to be a kill joy but someone had to say it, the steel does not make music it is the player. That is why we refer to it as an instrument. It is all about the person behind the instrument.Case in point, the voice. By it's self it is just a muscle in your neck, air passes through it and you have a cough or a honk or a wheez. Add a little soul and you can have singing. Larry Behm |
Rick Garrett
Member From: Tyler, Texas
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posted 19 November 2004 04:52 AM
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Obviously Larry the guitar just kind of sits there until someone picks it. But beyond that can you describe the music that comes out of it when its played properly, in one word?Rick |
Terry Sneed
Member From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
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posted 19 November 2004 09:03 AM
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Beautiful. There is not a more beautiful sound in music than a steel guitar in this world we live in. Hearing a newborn baby cry for the first time is as close as it gets for me
WHAT PAUL SAID. minus the baby cryin 
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Michael Dene
Member From: Gippsland,Vic, Australia
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posted 19 November 2004 05:47 PM
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It's what you hear when sound thinks it's a watch in a Dali painting.....Absolutely magic.  Michael |
Jennings Ward
Member From: Edgewater, Florida, USA
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posted 19 November 2004 06:21 PM
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GOD-SENT.
JENNINGS
WE PLAY STEEL FOR THE BEAUTIFULL ANGELIC SOUND.....
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Kenny Dail
Member From: Kinston, N.C. 28504
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posted 19 November 2004 09:58 PM
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If Jerry Byrd or Buddy Emmons is playing it is like music from heaven. If I am playing it, it sounds plumb pitiful and excites my wife to say "if you dont stop that noise I am gonna throw that thing in the street."Generally speaking of music and sounds of any instrument, It is like beauty, it's in the eye/ear of the beholder. ------------------
kd...and the beat goes on... |
c c johnson
Member From: killeen,tx usa
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posted 20 November 2004 04:23 AM
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Bud Tutmarc does gospel and Haw music. When asked why this combination, Bud says they both sound heavenly. CC |
b0b
Sysop From: Cloverdale, California, USA
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posted 20 November 2004 03:16 PM
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Moved to the "Steel Players" section, which is for topics about "Steel Guitarists and their Music" |
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