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Post by Pickers Ditch on Dec 19, 2017 18:19:15 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 19, 2017 18:33:21 GMT
I don't want it, but someone on here should get that, it will go for a good price.
Shine On Michael
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Post by leeophonic on Dec 19, 2017 19:39:17 GMT
There Goes the bargain..............
Lee
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 21:48:09 GMT
collection only - and I live 10 mile away TT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 9:07:44 GMT
I asked the owner if he had better pics, but unfortunately he can't as he has medical problems. TT
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 20, 2017 9:47:58 GMT
TT, you can't go wrong if the bidding doesn't get silly, which it won't. It's yours!
Shine On Michael
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Dec 23, 2017 10:56:12 GMT
£405 including the correct Geib hard case - not bad, particularly if the pick up and electrics are good.
Anyone here get it?
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Post by leeophonic on Dec 23, 2017 11:00:23 GMT
I bailed out, I wouldn,t have minded a project, but should probably finish the other unfinished projects 1st!!!
Good luck to the new owner and enjoy what these guitars bring, they are great.
lee
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Post by leeophonic on Jan 4, 2018 20:01:21 GMT
With a little practise this is how it should sound (I am not the new owner)
I wonder what ever happened to this old English lap steeler.
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jan 5, 2018 9:02:58 GMT
That is a great bit of film, Lee. Thank you! How the devil Al Shaw could hang that guitar round his neck with one of those chord straps I do not know - unless he'd got some serious padding stuffed under his jacket. Found this one and I needs a moustache and one of them shirts, too.
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 5, 2018 9:49:47 GMT
I have seen some other footage of Al Shaw, but I can't find it. They are both wonderful classic films and it is beautiful to see the National looking so new and shiny. What these films do show is how far behind the Americans we were in the Hawaiian guitar department.
Shine On Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 9:56:56 GMT
Felix Mendelsshon did his bit though.Believe Sam Mitchell's dad (also Sam) was in the band.
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 5, 2018 12:40:03 GMT
Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders were very famous and important in the history of Hawaiian music in Britain. You're right about Sam's dad being in the band, but that's not him. I am not sure, but that is either Roland Peachy or Kealoha Life. There were many steel players in Felix's band, including Ivor Mairants, Sammy Mitchell (Sam's dad) and Harry Brooker (Gary's dad).
I was in touch with Sammy Mitchell in his later years. He sent me his last album, which was recorded on a four track Tascam cassette Portastudio. It was only released on cassette and is a wonderful collection of songs and instrumentals with Sammy playing all instruments. It is a very beautiful album. Young Sam, our Sam, was amazed and quite emotional when I told him I had his dad's album, because apparently there were very few copies.
RIP Sammy & Sam
Shine On Michael
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