Tailpieces, and Nothing but

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:07 pm

Show off your tailpieces here!

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cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:15 pm

OK, here's 5 of mine:

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:17 pm

cjj wrote:OK, here's 5 of mine:

Not being overly familiar with those, I just noticed there's Stringtone on the triple version - kind of vibrato?

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:26 pm

Stringtone tuners allow you to switch quickly between different open tunings. This is what the pedals do on a pedal steel (of course, those have more options and are a bit more refined). This was something that came about sometime around when pedals were first being made, maybe before. They are a cam action device that stretches certain strings to retune them.

With a steel bar on the strings to get your notes, you don't really need a vibrato, you just wiggle the bar...

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:48 pm

cjj wrote:Stringtone tuners allow you to switch quickly between different open tunings. This is what the pedals do on a pedal steel (of course, those have more options and are a bit more refined). This was something that came about sometime around when pedals were first being made, maybe before. They are a cam action device that stretches certain strings to retune them.

With a steel bar on the strings to get your notes, you don't really need a vibrato, you just wiggle the bar...

Thanks for the explanation, CJ.

I've seen pedal steels used by german c&w band Truck Stop on tv, and that's about it - I don't know anything about them

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:51 pm

Funny...all i see is HORSESHOES and nothing but HORSESHOES....and sweet grain, that is!

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:53 pm

ajish4 wrote:Funny...all i see is HORSESHOES and nothing but HORSESHOES....and sweet grain, that is!

The wood on CJ's second picture sure is great - too bad they didn't save it for a real instrument

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:57 pm

Yeah, I'd love to have a 4003 with grain like that...

ajish4 wrote:Funny...all i see is HORSESHOES and nothing but HORSESHOES....

Yeah! And those ain't reissues either...

wim · Post by **wim** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:27 pm

Trapeze tailpiece, sorry there's some butt too

someone has to make these jokes

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:50 pm

Here's another one:

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:09 pm

libratune · Post by **libratune** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:05 pm

: 375F MG 60

: 381 FG 68

: 360F FG 60

crstory · Post by **crstory** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:22 am

Nice pieces of tail.

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:03 am

1997 LH MG

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:53 am

wmthor wrote:1997 LH MG

Man, that looks weird!

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