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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: Mike Monsalve on January 11, 2006, 12:40:40 PM

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: Mike Monsalve on January 11, 2006, 12:40:40 PM

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

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: serialnumber12 on January 11, 2006, 02:01:16 PM

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!

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: Mike Monsalve on January 11, 2006, 03:43:42 PM

Actually I've done that.  It lacks that hawaiian sound.
 
sigh

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: 811952 on January 12, 2006, 07:31:56 AM

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

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: pace on January 12, 2006, 09:45:36 AM

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....

Title: How about a lap steel?
Post by: lbpesq on January 12, 2006, 01:48:46 PM

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