The cams wouldīe activated by cables that connected to two pedals. To an E, allowing the playing of a C chord in the open position. Which two cams, mounted behind the nut, would raise the B to a C and the D I got as far as making some drawings of a lap steel in
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The lap steel? I DID have a full machine shop at my school. Pegs").These used a cam principle to lower the G tuning to a D tuningīy lowering the G to an F# and the B to an A. The banjo often had extra pegs that were first used by Earl Scruggs ("Scruggs Three note chords were out of the question. I also realized the problems inherent in playing with a bar where all the notes InĪbout three weeks I came up to the level of competence of the rest of the band. I tuned it to an open G (as is the dobro/banjo) and started playing it. Than I'd usually play on banjo, I asked him if I could give it a go. My bluegrass days, and as a number of the songs the band was doing were slower Thinking that as I used to fool around with Dobro in He had an old solid aluminum lap steel (with I had been in town for about a half year when I got a call from an old friend.īob Roberts, inviting me to join a band.
The Dobro brand lap steel on which I started. Me with my cheap Regal Joshua Rifkin playing fiddle. I knew a number of folks in the Philly musicġ959 at summer camp. In the Industrial Design Department at the University of the Arts (then, the In the fall of 1969 I moved to Philadelphia, PA to assume a teaching position Julian Winston - Me and the pedal steel Me and the pedal steel