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Any slide / lap slide / dobro players here?

BarryCreed · 2008-07-23 09:30:26

just wondering, anyone here play slide guitar, or lap slide? (Ben Harper style etc etc). I currently have an old acoustic set up to play lap slide in open D, and I'm getting the hang of it. Eventually I'd love to get a Weissenborn style lapslide. Is there anywhere in Ireland I could try one of these out? There's a lot of…

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just wondering, anyone here play slide guitar, or lap slide? (Ben Harper style etc etc).

I currently have an old acoustic set up to play lap slide in open D, and I'm getting the hang of it. Eventually I'd love to get a Weissenborn style lapslide. Is there anywhere in Ireland I could try one of these out? There's a lot of info online about different makes etc and soundclips and demos, but it would be nice to actually sit down and play one to see what they are like?

or does anyone know of anywhere in Manchester that has them...?

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#2 23-07-2008 10:04am

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Try thomann - I know they sell a very affordable lap steel guitar, how good it is I don't know...

You should try to listen to as much Duane Allman as possible if you intend on really getting to grips with slide guitar - he was one of the greats.

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#3 23-07-2008 10:13am

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yeah, i see thomann have a chinese made weissenborn copy. though i have read mixed reports about it. I suppose I should have specified, it's the lap slide technique I'm really getting into rather than the standard slide guitar, (which is pretty cool too). I have heard some Duane Allmann, though not enough...
I'll be sure to check him out..

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#4 23-07-2008 11:56am

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Looking at lap steels myself at the moment. Have been trying slide guitar for a while on a semi-acoustic Takamine. The action was too high for most of the stuff I play so decided to retune it and use it as a slide. Starting to pick it up after listening to Clapton for a bit (Running on Faith from Unplugged is great because its not that hard, also Mean Old World is a good learner track).

Trying to decide between a lap steel and a resonator though now. Know nothing about lap steels though. Have watched Robert Randolph play a few times and reckon I need be able to do what he does!

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#5 23-07-2008 12:54pm

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id love to get one of those weissenborn copies. The likes of ben harper, jeff lang, john butler, xavier rudd etc. use one.

those resonators sound really sweet as well..

GAS GAS

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#6 23-07-2008 9:48pm

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I've got an Industrial Guitar 8 String lap steel. I just haven't had the time and discipline to really learn to play it.

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#7 23-07-2008 11:56pm

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theres a nice one for sale in the music shop at portabello, cant remember for how much at the mo though!

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#8 24-07-2008 10:25am

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I have a Gretsch lap steel and a Carter pedal steel. I'm mainly a standard guitar played but I am handy enough on them. Very hard to play a pedal steel but a lap steel is fairly handy. You just need a volume pedal and I would suggest open-G tuning....

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#9 24-07-2008 10:49am

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must get a go of a pedal steel sometime. As I said earlier, mine is currently an old crafter semi acoustic set up as a a lap slide. so far so good, but I've never gigged it. It sounds rough enough...

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#10 24-07-2008 10:57am

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Walton's used to have a Chinese-made SX lap steel guitar for a reasonable price, and I've heard on another forum (mostly slide players) that it's a reasonable instrument for the price - ie a good, cheap starter.

Just checked - it's on their website, here
so they should have one in stock for you to try.

I have a semi-acoustic archtop (A 335 copy) set up for slide, I play a bit in standard tning and in open E. I've been thinking of getting a dobro or a lap steel myself, haven't decided which yet, so let us know how you get on!

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#11 24-07-2008 2:55pm

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this is what I want!

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#12 24-07-2008 4:42pm

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I would kill anyone here in Cold blood to be able to play dobro. I think they are an amazing sounding instrument when played well. I love them in american country stuff or alison krauss and the likes.

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#13 25-07-2008 9:04am

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I have a pic of my pedal steel in the sticky...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055184887&page=17

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