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janet@samandjanet.fsnet.co.uk (Fatwa Sam) wrote:


B-Benders are for those folk who want to play pedal-steel licks on an
ordinary electric guitar; something you cant do with left-hand bends.
A wander around http://www.stringbender.com/ should provide some answers.

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David Morton wrote in message
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You can get some of the bends without a B-bender, but not the ones where you
also need to play both strings adjacent to the string being bent. You can
also do some combined B-bends and string bends which are virtually
impossible otherwise. Ive tried a Parsons stye and a Hipshot, and prefer
the former (although you can fit a Hipshot to a Strat or an LP), but I do
know theres a luthier in the NW who can do a Parsons style without
requiring a body route.

Icarusi
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icarusi00@hotmail.com wrote:


If you happen to be Jerry Donahue or Adrian Legg, almost anything is
possible. Jerrys prowess has been pretyy well-known over the last ten years
or so, but Adrian, back in his Nashville Room days (before his association
with Rose-Morris), could make a Telecaster sound just like a pedal-steel
guitar.

Another, less intrusive, way to get a pedal-steel sound is to use the Bigsby
Palm-Pedal - unit which mounts to a solid guitar in the same way as a
horseshoe Bigsby vibrato, but which has two (separate) levers for bending
the B and G strings. A typical way to set it up involves a whole tone bend
on the B and a semitone on the G, which can shift a first position chord
(eg, AC#EA) up a fourth (ADF#A). The art of playing the Palm-Pedal, as with
the Parsons B-Bender, lies in the details of the technique - its so much
easier on a real pedal-steel!

I still have a Palm-pedal I bought in 1980 and used to have mounted on a
Hayman guitar - the guitar went two decades ago (still with screwholes in
the front), and I have always meant in the back of my mind to buy a suitable
guitar to use the Pedal on sometime...

See: http://www.geocities.com/dbalde.geo/dbBigsbypp