Author Topic: How about a lap steel? (Read 122 times)

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

serialnumber12 · « **Reply #1 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!

Mike Monsalve · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2006, 03:43:42 PM »

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

sigh

811952 · « **Reply #3 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

pace · « **Reply #4 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....

lbpesq · « **Reply #5 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