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Idag hade jag Kjell Silverwitt på besök hos
mig för att ta lite lektioner. Vi kollade också igenom hans steel, en Sho-Bud
Maverick, så att den funkade ordentligt. Kjelle är gitarrist och kommer från
Vadstena men vill gärna utveckla sitt steelspel.
Jag lovade er en kommentar angående CDn som
Uffe Edefuhr sände mig häromdagen. Min Stund På Jorden heter plattan och den
sjungs av Karin & Richard med pedal steel av nämnde Uffe. Plattan innehåller
hela 21 sånger vilket kan tyckas vara för många på en CD men det är ju en
smaksak hur man vill framföra sin musik. Jag har jobbat med många kristna
artister och har alltid gillat deras musik. De för fram sitt budskap snyggt
och rakt och man behöver aldrig fundera över sällskapet man hamnat i. Detta
inte menat som något negativt! Karin och Richard sjunger bra om inte perfekt
men det speglar hur de även låter ”live” på scenen. Uffes känsla och teknik på
sin pedal steel är utan tvekan godkänt men mixergubben borde kanske lyssna
lite mer på countrymusik. Köp gärna plattan om ni stöter på paret Karin &
Richard. JL.
Hej Janne.
Jag vill göra lite reklam för den femte Midsommardags Country den 26 juni i
Drottningstorp utanför Jönköping. Klockan 19 – 23.
Följande band kommer att vara med. Cosmos Cowboys, Thommy Borsén och de
Svenska mästarna The International Harvesters. En goo blandning med Rock och
Country alltså.
Linedance och servering.
Mera info. 0708 – 37 41 48 eller
www.elfcountry.se
Ingemar.
Hello Janne:
It is so good to hear from you. I am sorry to hear that your have been so
sick but thank the Lord that you are feeling better.
Thank you so much for playing the CD on your Internet radio. I appreciate it
very much.
I have great memories of the Faroes Islands and think about it often.
We made great music and it was a wonderful experience.
Hope you stay well and keep in touch. Things are good here and thank the Lord
He is keeping me here to worship to His greater glory.
Best wishes-God bless you,
Billy D Hunter
AFF-tonbladet kom i veckan. En trevlig liten medlemstidning som gör mig glad.
Tidningen är visserligen liten men den speglar verkligen hur pass populär
bluegrassen är i Sverige. Det kommer ständigt nya medlemmar till klubben och
mycket är Kenneth Fribergs förtjänst som vart han än står gör reklam för sin
bluegrass. I tidningen kan vi också läsa en grundlig berättelse om John
Dopyera (dobro) och historien om National skriven av Michael Lindgren.
Wow,
vilken överraskande klubbtidning jag fick från Smålands Country Club. Tjockare
och finare papper än tidigare så det nästan är KK-klass på den. Bra jobbat
Thellfamiljen. JL.
Hello fellow players,
I’m going to answer a couple questions that I get over and over all the time.
They are simple questions with simple answers. This concerns fretboards and
fretboard scales.
The scale is the distance from the center of the nut roller to the dead center
of the bridge or puller fingers. On all Emmons guitars, this distance is 24
and one quarter inches. Sho-Bud guitars are just 24 inches total.
It makes no difference how long the fretboards are in total physical length as
long as they match the fret spacing scale. Several Sho-Bud and Emmons
fretboards have 24 frets and some have 26 frets. It isn’t how many frets
there are as long as the 12th fret is exactly halfway between the nut and the
bridge.
People will at times buy a new fretboard, put it on top of their old
fretboard, notice a difference in the length and think the new fretboard is
wrong. The new fretboard won’t be wrong, but it can be a different length and
still be perfectly accurate as long as it was designed so that the frets are
spaced out to the correct scale of the guitar.
When you install the new fretboard, just make sure that the 12th fret is in
the exact middle between the nut and the bridge which is 12 inches from both
on a Sho-Bud and 12 and an eighth on an Emmons.
We have absolutely perfectly marked fretboards for both of these brands of
guitars that have been hyper-critically measured to be exact and are used by
Nashville’s finest studio musicians.
Another problem people seems to have is installing pickups. This seems to be
a job better left to metal or woodworkers and people that can design and
modify as they go along.
Very few pickups today with the exception of George L and the 705 Lawrence
just simply bolt into most steel guitars. However, using this model George L
or Lawrence pickup will mount pretty easily into Sho-Bud and Emmons
dimensioned guitars. These two brands seem to have set the standard.
These pickups are known as wide mount or narrow mount, Emmons being the wide
mount, Sho-Bud being the narrow mount. Other guitars that have had the fore
thought to use these two standard mounting dimensions are Mullen (narrow
mount), Zum, Fessenden and Derby are three that use the wide Emmons mount
dimensions.
GFIs will use either depending on model. Unless you have a brand of guitar
that uses one or the other of these excellent humbucking pickups, you may do
yourself well to thinking about making an improvement in your guitar. The
advantages of some of these after-market pickups are dependability, superior
fidelity and sound and the near complete eradication of sixty cycle hum.
I’d like to thank the many of you that came by to see me during the CMA Music
Fest that used to be called Fan Fair. I still remember it as the disc jockey
convention from thirty years ago.
People that I only get to hear from when they order music supplies throughout
the year, I get to see, talk with, possibly have a meal with and just really
get to enjoy the company of, makes me very happy.
As I get older I really get to appreciate the wonderful friends and customers
that I have dealt with over the past many years, hundreds of whom I met while
on the road working out of Nashville with many road acts. These people get
more and more valuable in my life as time goes by. I really appreciate my
friends very deeply.
Don’t wait for Fan Fair to come by. Come by any time of the year you feel
like it. My door is always open. It was stolen about three months ago and I
figured why replace it, let people come in and help themselves! Just kidding!
Your buddy,
Bobbe Seymour
Det var det………! Vi hörs nästa vecka!
Janne Lindgren
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