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well, being a hard-core lap steel/lap guitar player - never played a pedal steel - there's a cool trick that's really easy: if you hold your steel with your thumb and index-middle finger, it leaves your ring finger free to grab a string and bend it behind the bar. you can do a very passable single string bend that way. best bruce On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 07:00 AM, L. Angulo wrote: > Yes but the interesting thing about steels compared to > the lap steels is being able to alter the strings > creating different chord shapes.But i also love the > work of David Gilmour on his simple lap steel! > Luis > > > > --- bruce tovsky <bruce@skeletonhome.com> wrote: >> don't forget the lap steel. certainly a lot more >> portable, >> and many great sounds can be had from them. i also >> use an acoustic hawaiian lap guitar for a lot of my >> work, >> and a cd is forthcoming from the swiss label "cut" >> which >> is a live performance with myself on bowed, looped >> and >> grm-tooled lap guitar and john hudak on really long >> looped electric. couldn't resist the plug, sorry. >> cheers >> bruce >> >> On Friday, July 9, 2004, at 09:34 AM, L. Angulo >> wrote: >> >>> well my first guitar 20 years ago which cost me 10 >>> dlls. looks like that now;-) >>> L.a >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- Jens Wolters <shocktone@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> check this out: >>>> The affordable version ;) >>>> >>>> >>> >> > http://www.tonetoys.de/de/Weiteres_Gitarren-Zubehoer.html >>>> >>>> Now the strings are high enough and have a wider >>>> spacing to play pedal >>>> steel. >>>> Well sort of ;) >>>> >>>> Greetings Jens. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ===== >>> www.luis-angulo.com >>> >>> __________________________________________________ >>> Do You Yahoo!? >>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >> protection around >>> http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>> >> bruce tovsky >> www.skeletonhome.com >> >> >> > > > ===== > www.luis-angulo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > bruce tovsky www.skeletonhome.com