New Lap on the way

[tfarny]

Lap Steel, that is.
Details: Custom ordered from R. Cordle at Bluestem Strings. He was brilliant at communicating, punctual, and awesome with my special requests. It's 22" scale setup for C6 with a standard Lollar P90. 500k volume, no tone. I may add a .01 uf cap on a mini toggle depending on how it sounds. Should arrive early next week.

 

[hannaugh]

Sounds cool.  Have you played lap steel in the past, or is this your first one?  I heard it is hard to get used to.

 

[mayfly]

Sounds very cool.  I personally could not deal with lap steel when I tried it.

Ending up selling my 1959 Gibson lap steel (Koa wood) when I gave up.  Not sure if that was really a good idea, but oh well.

Edit - it was Korina - not Koa.  My bad.

 

[tfarny]

I bought a $100 rondo "lap steel" to try it out, took some lessons on C6 tuning. Learned that I wanted to learn it. That "instrument" was, shall we say, not W quality.

There is not all that much carryover from regular guitar, but all the muting stuff you do in slide guitar does carry over. The problem is that when you get it wrong it's 100% cats-in-heat. Simple swells w/ chords and arpeggios sound great though. Basically it's like guitar - easy enough to bang out some chords to accompany someone, hard to play proper lead.

 

[hannaugh]

I love how they sound in the mix.  I don't know if I would want to play one, but I would love to have someone who plays one in a band with me.  I always thing of this song when I think of lap steel. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ez0KA2aA8