| Author | Message | ||
| dibolosi
Junior Username: dibolosi Post Number: 24 Registered: 1-2004 |
I have a home recording studio. To accompany this studio I have a variety of musical instruments so that I can achieve a variety of sounds. A banjo? covered. A harmonium? covered. Vaccuum tube electronic organs? covered. Alembic basses? But of course mandolin? yes and so on and so on. The fact is I have almost everything. Then it hits me ... there isn't a lap steel guitar in the sound producing collection. So I start researching lap steels online. Then I begin to wonder if Alembic ever made a lap steel guitar. Would they make a lap steel guitar? Inquiring minds want to know | ||
| serialnumber12
Advanced Member Username: serialnumber12 Post Number: 346 Registered: 12-2004 |
Lay one of your alembics on your lap,then grab a size "d" battery or a empty beer bottle then Bang-zoom! you have the first alembic lap top! | ||
| dibolosi
Junior Username: dibolosi Post Number: 25 Registered: 1-2004 |
Actually I've done that. It lacks that hawaiian sound. sigh | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 616 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yeah, I do the beer bottle thing with the bass quite a bit and it's fun. I think part of the tone of a lap steel is the short scale length. A lap steel Alembic? That would be neato. John | ||
| pace
Intermediate Member Username: pace Post Number: 199 Registered: 4-2004 |
A club member "photoshopped" an Alembic lap steel about a year ago..... I think it was based on Tom Z's cocobolo Skylark.... I have a D-12 MSA pedal steel which has already been refinished. The cabinet and necks are made out of Finnish "dieboard" (maple plywood) and the mica has been replaced.... If & when Susan feels it's feasible I would like to send it out to Santa Rosa for a new cabinet, necks & pups~ I think it would be a cool shop night project. I talked to her about it once, but they are so busy right now, I doubt it's something they have time for.... | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 884 Registered: 7-2004 |
Neer bottles and batteries are not the only things that work as slides. Many years ago I saw Martin Mull (& his fabulous furniture) at the Troubador in L.A. (For those unaware, Mull had a music/comedy career prior to his acting). At one point Mull pulled out a "woman's personal vibrator", (yea, one of those), and used it as a slide. He then turned it on and went into "Purple Haze", looked up at the audience, and in a deadpan said "so that's how Jimi did it"! LOL Bill, tgo |
