Steel guitar

Alita Morrison wrote:
>My "steel guitar" is a 1 X 6
>board about 40 inches long with a 7 1/2 inch piece attached at right angles
>to each end of the 40 inch board. I have 9 guitar strings on one side of
>the board and 5 bass guitar strings on the other side to prevent warping of
>the board from the tension of the strings.

Why don't you just use a regular steel guitar? A steel manufacturer named
"Cougar" specializes in long necked, non-pedaled instruments. See
http://www.steelguitar.com/webpix/showpix/atla97px/atla9727.htm for a
picture of Claude Brownell playing one. I can dig up their address if
you're interested. Regular 24 1/2" scale steel guitars are available
everywhere.

-b0b-

>The first one is my
>"steel guitar" which is similar to Ivor Darreg's megalyra instruments.

(By the way, its construction is much like Ivor's megalyras, but its
pitch range and size are closer to a typical steel guitar.)





>My favorite equal tempered scale is 7TET. It is a challenge because it
>has so few tones but yet is unexplainably very interesting.

That's an interesting one alright!