| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning... | | Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007 06:55:51 (-0800) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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| In reply to: | Message 7764 (written by George Rout) |
On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:32 PM, George Rout wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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