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Topic: Toilet chains and Organ Pedals
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basilh
Member From: United Kingdom
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posted 22 January 2006 01:42 PM
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Note That Ernest Tavares says "Anyone with the necessary sense of rhythm can learn to play a tune on the instrument with 30 minutes of practise" !!!    ------------------
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Steel players do it without fretting
  [This message was edited by basilh on 22 January 2006 at 02:13 PM.]
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Charlie McDonald
Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA
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posted 22 January 2006 01:48 PM
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So now we know who invented the real pedal steel.[This message was edited by Charlie McDonald on 22 January 2006 at 01:48 PM.] |
basilh
Member From: United Kingdom
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posted 22 January 2006 02:11 PM
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Well Charlie, paper never refused ink !! and here's some more from the Honolulu Star Bulletin of August 14th 1947What it says is :- "New Steel Guitar Is Introduced;
Has Harp Tuning
At an audition at the Royal Hawaiian hotel. Ernest Tavares. Steel guitarist formerly with the Harry Owens band, introduced his newly developed steel guitar. The new guitar, invention makes intricate chord progressions more simple due to the use of a, harp tuning principle. The tuning is accomplished by foot pedals, assuring immediate retuning. instead of the hand methods previously used.
Mr. Tavares played at the ‘Royal Hawaiian for several years as a member of the Harry Owens group. During that time' he also did orchestrations and arrangements. Recently returned from the main land, he has started his own band.  So it made the "Hand Method" outdated !![This message was edited by basilh on 22 January 2006 at 02:13 PM.] |
Donny Hinson
Member From: Balto., Md. U.S.A.
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posted 22 January 2006 03:07 PM
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It's too bad he didn't know about Jay Harlin's "Multi-Kord" pedal steel, which came along about 10 years earlier.  |
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