Half A Mind & Buddy's intro, break

Billy Carr · Post by **Billy Carr** » 12 Jul 2014 3:09 am

10th fret is still a problem. Thanks.

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 12 Jul 2014 8:05 am

Billy are you talking about the 10th fret if you are playing this in the key of A....as the last fret you chime??
What problem are you having?

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 12 Jul 2014 8:23 am

Here are the chimes at the end of intro in Key of A. Bar is on 5th fret and "*" means the fret/strings you chime.
[tab]
3._______________________
4.________________*10~~~~
5._*17___*12~12a__*10a~10
6._*17___*12~12b_________
7._______________________
[/tab]
If you are chiming the 17th and 12th properly..than only thing I can think of you still having a prob. on the 10th is the technique of that chime ringing out as you let off the pedals?? If you move the bar on the 5th fret at all...this will create a harder delivery of that 10th fret chime...as those two positions have to be very precise with each other.
Ricky

W. C. Edgar · Post by **W. C. Edgar** » 12 Jul 2018 5:16 am

Any video of Emmons playing Half a Mind? The one on the last page is Charlton.

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 12 Jul 2018 1:51 pm

Here is the "Half a Mind" Sho-Bud as a D-8 and as Mike said the first pedal steel guitar recording featuring "split pedals." It was cut June 11, 1958.

Later - it went to Pete Drake and Shot made it a D-10 and Pete put a leather patch over Buddie'e signature that Emmons had burned into the front apron with a wood burning kit:

Here is the guitar today on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN. This guitar has no end pates and no roller nuts. In a 2002 Eddie Stubbs WSM-Radio interview with Emmons and Hal Rugg, Emmons talks about how he thought the steel guitar lost its good tone when they started using roller nuts to keep the strings from breaking.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 12 Jul 2018 9:30 pm

Interesting quote about the roller nut,Bob...

It's funny how the tone gets"improved"right out of instruments,cars,motorcycles...

When I worked as an"intern"at Pete's Place back in another century,that thing sat in a glass case at the top of the stairs on the second floor...I had no idea it was the"Half a Mind"guitar...I figured it out years later..."Ole Goldie"was Pete's favorite in those days
and could be found sitting in the tape machine room,just past the control room along with Pete's Sho~Bud single channel amp and satchel(no pak-a-seat,he sat in a folding chair)...I always enjoy your posts-hope I see you soon!

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 13 Jul 2018 8:14 am

Steve - We need Big Jim Webb in on this one.

re: Sho-Bud 2nd factory location on Nesbitt Lane - I was thinking this site was on the right as you turn off off Gallatin right before and bordering on the railroad tracks but I'm not 100% sure. This spot is the parking lot of Crown Ford now. I will keep on it but please let me know if you find out. I have located and filmed 5 of the 6 factory sites plus Nesbitt Lane. These five structures are still standing. The "Half a Mind" Sho-Bud Permanent was built at the first location - Shot's house in Madison almost halfway in between Nesbitt Lane #2 and Dickerson Road #3 next to Starday. Buddie built the cabinet for this guitar.

I just connect the dots - I wasn't there. The ones that really know what happened and what that was like are the ones that were actually putting the pedal to the metal - working the Opry and the show dates - cutting the hits - developing and building the guitars - working in the studios.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 13 Jul 2018 8:24 am

robert kramer wrote:
I just connect the dots - I wasn't there. The ones that really know what happened and what that was like are the ones that were actually putting the pedal to the metal - working the Opry and the show dates - cutting the hits - developing and building the guitars - working in the studios.

“There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...”

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 13 Jul 2018 8:38 am

Mr. Steiner - Precisely. The more I learn about these pickers and what they accomplished - the amount of work they took on - I'm stunned how they did it all. As time goes by - they loom larger and larger in my pea-brained mind. The ones I've been lucky enough to meet and hang with are more impressive to me then most of the singing stars.

"There were giants in the earth in those days... the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 13 Jul 2018 8:51 am

Bob
"Mr. Steiner" is what the DPS officer calls me when he asks me if I know why he pulled me over. I'd prefer it if you addressed me as Herb.

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 13 Jul 2018 9:56 am

Herb - I know - That's cold - sinking feeling when those blue lights come on.

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