| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Non-standard bars...Was:Tunings and re-tuning... | | Date: | Sunday, November 4, 2007 11:17:07 (-0500) | | From: | D. Tannehill <ephsmath-phys @...net>
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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
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------- 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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