List of Sacred Steelers'
Most Requested Setups & Tunings
- A Brief History of the House of God Steel Guitar Tradition
by Robert L. Stone- Orlando Weekly's Article "A Joyful Noise".
- Setups (Tunings) for Beginning Sacred Steelers
- Basic 10-String Minimal SS Setup and Tuning
- Basic 10-String SS Setup and Tuning with E Top
- Basic 10-String SS Setup and Tuning with E Bottom
- Setups (Tunings) used by some of the Professional Sacred Steeler Players Note: If you desire a different setup (tuning), please feel free to send it to us by FAX, email or snail mail for a quote. You may use your own chart or either of these handy setup/tuning charts.
- Chuck Campbell's 10-String Setup and Tuning
- Chuck Campbell's 12-String Setup and Tuning
- Lonnie Bennett's 10-String Setup and Tuning
- Maurice Beard's 10-String Setup and Tuning
- Calvin Cooke's 10-String Setup and Tuning
- Another 12-String Setup and Tuning
- Listen to a few sound samples of Sacred Steelers here at Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
- Thank you to Sacred Steelers, Chuck Campbell and Lonnie Bennett, for their valuable assistance to us in compiling and refining the above setups/tunings. We welcome your feedback.
- Dan Tyack [who has played with Asleep at the Wheel, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Lacy J. Dalton, Donna Fargo, Jean Sheppard, Dottie West, the house band at the Palomino, and Vince Gill (pre-solo career) and currently a fantastic live and recording artist in the Seattle area who thoroughly enjoys playing all forms of music on his psg and travels around the USA to many steel guitar and musical events] had this to say on December 2 2000 about the upcoming Sacred Steel Convention and Sacred Steel Music in general:
"I really, really recommend that any open-minded steel player come to this show. I have heard a lot of fantastic steel players in my career, and played with a lot of great musicians (Vince Gill, Danny Gatton, Buddy Emmons, etc.). But nothing has moved me more than listening to and playing with this group of incredible musicians. I have never felt more blessed as a musician than when I played in Chuck and Phil Campbell's church in mid-November 2000. This is the real thing, they aren't trying to recreate something that somebody else did that was cool 40 years ago.
And if you aren't religious, or aren't Christian, no worries. You will not find a more accepting community anywhere.
If you come to this show with your mind and heart open, you with be moved. I know that my playing has been fundamentally changed as a result of hanging with these guys. Not that I have been learning their licks. Because their playing isn't about playing cliches or hot licks. It is about emptying your mind of ego and 'chad', and going straight from your soul to your axe."
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