| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning... | | Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007 15:20:26 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Wow Tom,
I love the story about the guy, a school principal yet, buying a dobro guitar in
a hock shop for 3 bucks and hopping a freight and not coming back for seven
years. That's funny! Only time in his life he was truly happy.....there's times
I can relate to that. However, (for the moment) the "sane" times still continue
to direct my life.
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!
I've always used a traditional slide when playing dobro. Guess I figure it's
part of the sound. I've seen the great Lloyd Green play dobro and if I remember
right, he used his bullet bar from his steel. The heavy bar gives great
tone.....but it might not sound like a reso. Your mileage may vary.
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.
I wish someone would confuse ME with Jerry Byrd.....
Richie
www.pinehillramblers.com
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Tom Foote <footet@evergreen.edu>
>
> 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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