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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Non-standard bars...Was:Tunings and re-tuning... | | Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007 08:55:16 (-0800) | | From: | JIM C. <bear.caller_1 @.....com>
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Hi all hey awhile back i had a good lesson with matt snook and he showed me a
nice bar. it looks kinda like a sheerhorn but it has a texture on the sides and
deeper grooves to hold firmly. the top has ridges on both top edges. does anybody
out there know the maker of this one. nice and weighty balanced too. my S-P 1
ISN'T LOVING MY HAND AS I HAVE A COUPLE FINGER TIPS THAT HAVE BEEN SHORTENED IN a
logging wreck some years ago. Plus the square end is not as ergonomic as it needs
to be.
"D. Tannehill" <ephsmath-phys@cox.net> wrote: I once found myself on break at
work with Regina the Regal, but no bar.
Scrounging around I found a piece of PVC pipe the right length and diameter
and figured I'd give it a try. Poor Regina sounded like an ojnab. She
forgave me but made me promise NEVER to try that again.
Dan in RI
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Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning...
>
> I've got....counting them.....at least 10 "bullet type" steels in various
> weights, lengths, and diameters here. Tried them all at one time or
> another when I was playing the egg slicer. The mass, the weight of the
> slide, has a great effect on the tone of the instrument. Same as the
> capos do on our resos. Any who read this who are mechanically inclined or
> have acess to a tool box, if you can find say a 11/16ths deep socket, and
> try using this as a slide....you should see the effect right away. "Found
> objects" used as a slide on a dobro usually sound.....like crap!
>
> Submit your cd's to Tom & Joe, by all means, George. They'll play
> ANY-thing....(they even played ours)....HUGE GRINS, and thanks again
> Tommy.
>
Hmmm... anything you say? I wonder if I can convince the Innocent Bystanders
to let me record the show this Saturday?
>
> Richie
> www.pinehillramblers.com
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>
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Tom Foote
>
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:32 PM, George Rout wrote:
>>
>> > [snip]
>>
>> > I have submitted a copy of our Peach Pickers first CD with me on
>> > Dobro to RESORADIO, ALLRESORADIO THAT IS!!!
>>
>> Joe and I anxiously await the ==> Peach Pickers CD... <==
>>
>> anybody else out there with a CD with reso on it
>> send it along to Joe & Tom
>> ALL RESO RADIO
>> CAB 301
>> The Evergreen State College
>> Olympia, WA 98505
>>
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > However, all that being said, I would prefer (but don't) to use the
>> > bullet bar both on the Dobro and lap.
>>
>> [snip]
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> > To me, the Hawaiian style playing has that big advantage over ALL
>> > other string instruments, and that is the "haunting sound of the
>> > slide". Sorry about that Jerry, but I know you have many fans, you
>> > don't need me!!!!!
>>
>> George, you've got your Jerrys twisted up there... the one
>> you model is Jerry Byrd.. : > )
>>
>> Earl Stark, retired Olympia bus driver, uses a full size
>> round steel and has been since he started playing
>> Oz style in the 50s. He plays a lot of twang and slants
>> and does a great job on the old stuff.. i.e., Great Speckled Bird,
>> etc...
>>
>> the bar thing is really subjective... I always used a
>> Stevens... moved from that to a Shubb version of the Stevens..
>> but, had a problem hanging on to it... Jimmy Heffernan let
>> me try his GA Smith, which is pebbled where you hold it
>> and I can hang on to it a lot better.. and the sharper ends
>> make pull offs a little easier. The bar does have a much
>> wider footprint than the Stevens, so it takes some getting
>> used to and makes slants a real challenge. I bought a Smith
>> from Jimmy and use it now. I like it, but it still feels a
>> little different because the top of the bar doesn't tuck into the
>> crease between my fingers like the Shubb Stevens copy. Oh,
>> well.. no bar is perfect, I guess.. except the ones you
>> all are using, of course.. : > )
>>
>> in 1967 I answered a radio ad for a Dop Prop guitar... the
>> announcer couldn't read the old guy's handwriting. It turned
>> out to be a Model 37 Dobro, short spider, sicky green
>> sunburst round neck. When I opened the case, it had a number
>> of "lipstick tube" steels in the pocket and a book of sheet
>> music " Alfred Apaca and the Royal Hawaiians " was
>> lying on top of the guitar. He said he was on his way to
>> work dressed in his three piece suit and bow tie, as Superintendent/
>> Principal of a small school in rural Kansas. While walking
>> through town saw this Dobro hanging in the window of the local
>> pawnshop. He said he went
>> in bought the guitar for $3.00, went down to the RR yard,
>> hopped a freight train and didn't come back for 7 years!!
>> then looking right at his current wife (who was in her 50s..
>> he was mid 80s) said "it was the only time in my life I've ever
>> really been happy."
>>
>> FWIW
>>
>> Anon E. Moose
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
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