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A brief description of this procedure was first included in one or another of the Newsletters in my Record or Cassette Clubs of the early 1970s. Winnie Winston was a club member and asked if he could include my description of the procedure in his famous course booklet titled “Steel Guitar,” published in 1975. Buddy Emmons later included the procedure as one of his instructions publications in the 1980s, calling it “Harmonic Tune Up.” I once posted a brief description of it on the Steel Guitar Forum. Sometime in the early ‘90s I included a brief summary of the procedure in an advertisement for Korg tuners that I was selling then. This article was printed in a series of pages inside my 1996 Products Catalog (which is also listed as a free-read on this website, and follows below! But please don’t waste your time reading it there. It contains many errors and is quite incomplete. I’ve learned a bit more in the last 24-plus years since then, so stick with this one, because it contains additional topics and information you need to know. But do prepare yourself for the “mind-freezing detail” you will read. ...Tom
In the 1960s I wrote an instructional paper on chord construction, specifically for steel guitarists. Recently, I vastly updated it, adding tablature and audio files. It is now a heady instructional course, but if you read and study it faithfully, you just might become the next Mozart of the steel guitar.
When this 100-page catalog was published in 1996, many felt it was more of a book than a catalog because it was filled with mini biographies and other information about our instrument’s foremost players. It also included the best musical recordings by those players up to that time. Also listed in it were the worthiest instructional materials then available. This information is from a time that I call “The Golden Age of the Steel Guitar.”
