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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] What do you Pedal Steel players do??? | | Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2007 15:29:57 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Hi Don,
When I was playing the "double barreled egg slicer", the bar I used was 1" in
diameter and 3 1/2" long. This covered the 10 strings nicely.
The purpose of the pedals on a Pedal Steel is to (for me anyways) eliminate the
need for slants. The possible chord voicings, especially on C 6th tuning are
indeed mind boggling. I have a pretty basic set up on my double 10 Emmons. I
had 8 floor pedals and four "knee bars" which to those who've never seen a Pedal
Steel are simply extra "pedals" but worked by your knees. These days, I've seen
as many as eight knee bars including some which are horizontal and work by
raising your knee, as you push down on pedals, and slide your knee either to the
right or left.......yikes huh?
But reso-guitars are IMHO soooo much fun. I don't miss the "knife & gun" bar scene
at all. It's so much fun to be able to roam around a festival, after being
plugged into an amp and a wall socket all these years, and just join in wherever
you want to....(if they'll let you).
Let the good twangs roll,
Richie
-------------- Original message --------------
From: don.hergert@verizon.net
> Duhhh
>
> It just hit me that those of you who play Pedal Steel have more strings than I
> do on my Dobro. Do you have longer slides? Or do you just not try to hit all
> the strings at the same time ever?
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> Man, the combinations of slant chord patterns on your guitars is mind boggling!
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> Best,
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> -- Don
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