• From: Probably Somewhere
  • Registered: 2010-12-09
  • Posts: 2,446

Topic: Lap Steel (HEY JEROME!!!)

Any lap steel players have any idea which tuning (and type of strings) I should buy if I'm going to be using lap steel for bluesy stuff?

Jerome you recently purchased a Magnatone right? Did you get it set up? What tuning are you using?

-Joe

  • From: Bellevue, WA
  • Registered: 2006-06-15
  • Posts: 3,336

Re: Lap Steel (HEY JEROME!!!)

I'm still working ont the amp (lots of caps to get replaced) but I've played the guitar a bit.   The tuning pegs are original, and will either need rebuilt or replaced.  When I do that, I'll restring it with some John Pearce strings, as big, fat, and gnarly as I can find.

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  • Registered: 2011-04-11
  • Posts: 3

Re: Lap Steel (HEY JEROME!!!)

bald guitar  dude, put a set of nickels on her.  thicker guage strings stay in tune better, and use any open tuning you can  easily remember the notes to tune to, example DADGAD, or DADF#AD(major) or DADFAD(minor) and KISS,  good luck.

  • badeye
  • The Blues Fixer
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  • From: Cape Breton Island, Canada
  • Registered: 2006-09-02
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Re: Lap Steel (HEY JEROME!!!)

B G D   check out this lap player, a local caper.      just sayin   lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp3nee78adk




hope you have a great day,,,,   badeye    cool

one caper after another