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brooklyn
Aloha

USA
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Posted - 07/07/2008 :  12:44:48 PM  Show Profile
I have two lap steels that I bought used on the web.

One I love and it is 6 strings.
The other one has 8 strings. A Georgeboard, knotty pine vintage.

I have found a deserving student back in Hawaii and wish to gift her the 8 string. She is an outstanding young musician and loves the steel.

My question: which two strings do I take off to make it a 6 string?
Seriously, does it matter? the two bottom ones?

I was going to include a little Honeytone amp and cord so my young friend could enjoy annoying the neighbors.

Mahalo!
Brooklyn

Basil Henriques
Lokahi

United Kingdom
225 Posts
Posted - 07/07/2008 :  4:33:50 PM  Show Profile  Visit Basil Henriques's Homepage
Take off the first and eighth, that would leave the fretboard more easily read and the strings would all be in a similar magnetic field. (On an 8 string guitar with an 8 string pickup the first and eighth are on the periphery and have a magnetic field on only one side of the string, usually)
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