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Post by fredkinbom on Aug 1, 2007 0:13:56 GMT
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the reply! So, were you too at the Pizza in the Park show by Debashish and Subhasish back in May? That was a truly amazing evening!
Are you doing any Brighton shows (or nearby south coast) this year?
Cheers,
Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Jul 31, 2007 13:47:25 GMT
Michael,
Pascal told me that he and yourself met Debashish Bhattacharya at the blues festival in Cognac and that he now has an I style Tribo-Tone! That's really cool! How does he like it?
Cheers,
Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Jul 20, 2007 20:08:30 GMT
Thanks very much Robn - nice to see you here too! About the Oahus - I only have one left - my $81 early 1930s favourite! I gave one away and sold one on eBay recently. Now, to return to the topic - has anyone else tried the Tribo-Tone bars? Cheers, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Jul 19, 2007 15:41:10 GMT
Thanks to all of you for the nice welcome, and for the very kind and encouraging words! All the best, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Jul 17, 2007 4:06:46 GMT
Hi folks, I'm new here, but I recognice some people I know in person (Pascal, Vleb - salut!) and people from other steel/slide guitar forums. Anyway, as no one had done so until now, I decided to record a little clip showcasing the Tribo-Tone bar: I use a "B-weight" Tribo-Tone and I play my Lazy River Weissenborn in G minor tuning (tuned a bit below G in fact). The song was written in the 1960s by the late Swedish genius Cornelis Vreeswijk. I came up with the arrangement tonight, so it's a bit sketchy at points. I have translated the lyric in the youtube "notes" for those interested. I think/hope the character of the Tribo-Tone comes across in the clip, at least the way it sounds when I play it (including some swooshing with my hand along the strings). Cheerio, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Feb 14, 2008 22:08:02 GMT
In your country I am Michael KNIFE!!!! And Michael, the original German title of Kurt Weill/Bertold Brecht's "Mack The Knife" is "Mackie Messer"! Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Feb 14, 2008 22:28:28 GMT
Michael, Based on your praise of the SM57, the amount of these sturdy mics I remember having come across over the years at gigs and in studios, and the fact that the guy in the shop recommended the £69 SM57 over more expensive condensor mics he could have sold me, I bough an SM57 today. Wanted a good and reliable mic for gigs for my Lazy River Weiss and my Dobro. I'm having fun running it through a mixer and with headphones exploring the sounds of different areas of the guitars. I never knew what booming bass comes out of a Dobro's "portholes"! I have a pair of (large diaphragm) SE Electronics SE2200A condenser mics for home recording, that I'm very happy with. I had the SE1A small diaphragm condenser (which could have been a gig mic too) but really disliked the way my Lazy River sounded though that mic. I have had both very positive and "nothing special" experience of gigging with my Lazy River using different AKG condenser mics that were available at the venues. The guy in the shop told me that the feedback problems with condenser mics are about five times that of an SM57. I look forward to "road test" the SM57 an familiarise myself with the way my guitars will sound through it. Thanks everyone for all the info in this thread! Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Dec 7, 2007 0:49:32 GMT
Hi Fred, I use Newtone 'Square Neck Resonator Strings' for high bass GBDGBD and Newtone MM Nationals 16 to 59 for low bass DGDGBD. Michael, for the "Square Neck Resonator" strings, which gauge would you recommend for high bass G? RM-A .015 .018 .028 .038 .048 .058 RM-B .016 .019 .028 .035 .045 .056 RM-C .016 .018 .028 .038 .050 .060 RM-D .017 .019 .028 .036 .046 .056 RM-E .018 .018 .022 .032 .044 .056 RM-F .018 .020 .030 .036 .046 .056 Cheers, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Dec 6, 2007 18:25:56 GMT
Thanks everyone for the input, and Michael - special thanks for that very interesting info on the early days of lap steel guitar playing!
As I play mainly solo, low bass tunings have made most sense to me so far, but I'm curious to try the high-bass tunings (last autumn, I briefly had an old Oahu tuned to FACFAC, and also FACEAC, which I found was a quite versatile tuning as you've got "fat sounding" major and minor chords with a straight bar - C6th has major and minor too, but the high root in the A minor there isn't exactly "fat" for solo playing).
Any recommended listening for Casey Bill Weldon?
Thanks a lot!
Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Dec 6, 2007 1:07:44 GMT
Thanks a lot all for the info! Michael - I was surprised by your last paragraph, as I was under the impression that low bass G (or its A equivalent) was the "original" lap steel open tuning, and that the "dobro" tuning GBDGBD came along later in country music. I really like to have a 5th on the bottom (and also the sound of a low D) and haven't really played much in GBDGBD. Want to explore it though - there is so much to learn and so many possibilities in each of these basic tunings (and their slight variations). Thanks again, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Dec 5, 2007 1:26:53 GMT
Hi folks, I am just about to purchase a squareneck Dobro, and I want to have a set of good strings ready for it when it arrives. What are the best strings for a spider bridge reso, in your opinion? I don't intend to tune to GBDGBD, but rather to low-bass G (DGDGBD) and maybe crank it up to EBDGBD. Also, I favour a more mellow sound to the IMO harsh "modern" Dobro sound. Many thanks in advance for any advice! Cheers, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Nov 28, 2007 23:45:51 GMT
Just wanted to post an update here to mention that that very same set of Newtone Michael Messer Electric Slide Classics strings is still on the New Yorker, two months later, and they still sound and feel just right! And I have played this guitar almost daily, including gigging in France and Germany. Top quality product! Many thanks, Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Sept 25, 2007 16:52:03 GMT
Last year I ordered some Newtone Alohas for an old Oahu lap steel with "Safe-ti-string" (or whatever they were called) tuner posts (the string had to be pre-cut and inserted into the post). I explained my predicament and thought I would have to get another brand of strings, but Neil or Malcolm said "How long do you need them to be?" and made not only custom gauge but custom length strings that required no cutting! Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Sept 24, 2007 14:59:41 GMT
Just wanted to post how happy I am with the Newtone "Michael Messer Electric Slide Classics" strings. I have custom extra heavy gauge strings on my 1937 National New Yorker and they sound and feel great and last very long! I just changed the first set I tried after more than 2 months of pretty much daily use (and the reason I changed them was not because they didn't sound right anymore but because I had taken them off twice to access the electronics of the guitar, and the round-core nature of these strings makes them prone to unravelling if slackened after being cut, so after the second time I took them off they did not hold the tuning as well as before). I use Newtone Alohas on my hollowneck too, and they also last for ages - I change them every six to eight weeks or so. I don't know what makes the Newtone strings last longer than other strings but it makes the higher price (compared to buying mass produced strings online from the US) totally worth it. The only downside in my experience have been some administrational glitches with shipping but the quality of these strings more than makes up for that. Fred
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Post by fredkinbom on Jul 23, 2007 20:50:37 GMT
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