Tone bars for lap steel guitar - pt. I - a little comparison

A comparison of 7 lap steel bullet-style tone bars (Broz-o-Phonic, Diamond Bottlenecks x 2, Boyett Glass Bar, Tribo-Tone x 3), playing the same piece of music on the same (Lazy River) steel guitar, using the same microphone set-up.

http://fredkinbom.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• lap
• steel
• slide
• guitar
• weissenborn
• tone
• bar
• broz-o-phonic
• diamond
• bottlenecks
• gary
• boyett
• tribo-tone

[052619561]

Fred, I love your music! Can you send me some information on how to play some of it? I really like Open D tuning, but enjoy using a variety of tunings. I have two Oahu square necks, both with great tone.  Thanks, Mike Martin

[oahusteel75]

@052619561 Thanks Mike - glad you enjoy my music. Drop me an e-mail through my website and let me know which tunes you are interested in learning. Cheers, Fred.

[guitarguru317]

@oahusteel75 I would like to buy this song but its not on itunes?

[oahusteel75]

@guitarguru317 Hi there - it is on iTunes - search for Fred Kinbom - the album is called "Hedgehogs & Elephants" and the song is called "Igelkott". Thanks for the support!

[c6e9]

Beautiful and unique playing. But I swear I cannot hear ANY difference between any of the bars. I think it is more of a question of how it feels in the players hand. That being said, I can hear a real difference on pedal steel between my normal Pearse stainless bar and a Paloma ceramic. But with the bars you feature here, I can't hear any difference.

[nappypant]

really like that song.. im gonna but one of these guitatrs for sure. i love it.

[CallmeMau]

can't help mentioning it but these things look like dildo's

nice playing btw

[ganjaking187]

i just bought a electric lap steel and was wondering which bar is the best for them, glass or steel?

[UkuleleIgor]

Thanks for this video. I just started to learn lap steel, I´m using acoustic folk guitar with raised nut, I´ve been using Shubb RR2 tone bar this far and today I bought my first bullet-bar: Dunlop 920. They are both kinda heavy, 7.5 oz. Well next I´ll try something lighter, plastic one perhaps?

[pandamusica]

wow! i really like this song.