There is a lot of interest in your new Steel King Amplifier, and such a "gesture" of support for your own product could serve to divert the intense loyalty that many steel players have for Peavey Amplifiers. Now I understand how the corporate thing works, and maybe nobody would get a promotion or a raise for suggesting this because it may not bring in millions in revenue, but why doesn't Fender start making those replacement assemblies? Steelers are a very close-knit community and I can guarantee that the gratitude felt by a few hundred Stringmaster Players would be made known to and felt by ALL STEELERS including the big names (they're all on Steel Guitar Forum). They are not new of course, but at least they work ! There are a lot of other Fender Stringmaster players in the same situation as can be attested by innumerable threads on Steel Guitar Forum. When I needed tuners for it, I finally found some on eBay - and I paid quite a high price for them - over $200!. In addition to the D8, I own a ‘57 T8 that I just love and I play it all the time. Now there is a big growing resurgence of steel guitar both pedal and non pedal, and just as the Stratocaster is the "holy grail" of electric guitar, the Stringmaster is considered by many to be the holy grail of console steel, and more and more steelers are acquiring them and playing them. But that would be like saying the motorcycle made the bicycle obsolete. That's just wrong.įor a long time it was generally thought that the pedal steel had made lap and console steel obsolete, and in fact many non pedal steelers have been out of work since 1953. Pragmatic as that may be, it still means that every time a tuner fails there will be one less Stringmaster in the world.
They all pretty much said the same thing - get a "parts" guitar and rob it. I asked everybody - I mean everybody! I asked Herb Remington, Cindy Cashdollar, John Tipka, Jody Carver, Neil Flanz, Herb Steiner etc etc. NOBODY makes replacement 4-in-line tuning assemblies for them!
That was when I found out the really bad news. Unfortunately when it arrived it had a couple of busted tuners. Recently I bought a Fender Stringmaster D8 on eBay, and I was very excited about receiving it.
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I bought a used Fender Dual Professional and a Fender Champion 6 string in 1983 and started working steel into the act. So it was only natural when I took up an interest in steel guitar that I would look to Fender first. I have always cherished Fender instruments and amps, and I have always regarded Fender as the #1 musical instrument company. Since then I have purchased many Fender products, and at this time I own several Stratocasters, Telecasters, and various Fender amps. My very first "good" guitar was a Fender Jaguar.
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I have been a full time working musician since 1963.
The address is at the beginning of the letter: If you are a Fender Stringmaster player, please read this and consider writing a letter of your own to Fender. I don't know that a single letter will stir up any action, but many letters might. They don't have a phone number or email address on their website like Peavey does, and they sure don't have anybody like Mike Brown in their employ - all they post is the mailing address. This is a copy of a letter I mailed to Fender Consumer Relations. Topic: Letter to Fender about Stringmaster Tuners Your profile | join | preferences | help | search Letter to Fender about Stringmaster Tuners Letter to Fender about Stringmaster Tuners - The Steel Guitar Forum INSTRUCTION
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