steel guitars & microtonality

"Progress on the microtonal guitar home page. Help !"

Thank you all for keeping the info flowing into my inbox.

I've been trying to decide whether all steel guitars belong in the same
list
of guitarists. Sure they are called "guitars", but some of them resemble
a
work bench.

I figure that to be in a guitar and closely related list, it has to either
be held in your lap, or strapped around your neck. Otherwise
Paganini would be a guitarist and pianos would be called guitars and the
oceans would rise, and the ozone would vanish. And then we'd need Kevin
Costner to save us from that evil guy (who's uglier ?).

Anyhoo, could all the microtonal steel-guitarists please stand up and be
counted.
Let me know what kind of instrument you use, so I know where on the site
to
put you. E-mail me privately with info.

p.s. No offence intended to steel guitarists. But I just dug out my
old tape of Ozzy Osbourne's No Rest For the Wicked that I bought 10 years
ago on
a sunny (understatement!!!) day in Kuwait, and I'm...uh...feeling wicked

- Drew

From: Drew Skyfyre <skyfyre@usa.net>

>I've been trying to decide whether all steel guitars
>belong in the same list of guitarists. Sure they are
>called "guitars", but some of them resemble
>a work bench.

I think they should be included. The logic that goes into
understanding the scale and harmony patterns of a fingerboard
are quite the same. You can always have a second page linked
to the first, except that can be a pain in the ass.

>I figure that to be in a guitar and closely related list, it has to
either
>be held in your lap, or strapped around your neck.
>
>Anyhoo, could all the microtonal steel-guitarists please
>stand up and be counted. Let me know what kind of
>instrument you use, so I know where on the site
>to put you. E-mail me privately with info.

All the guitars I use for slide really do look like guitars!

In fact, they are guitars but now-a-dayze I think lap steel guitars
and pedal steel guitars are probably just modern day vinas.

Call mine the Dobro Vina for now.

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