Here's Bobbe Seymour

Ron Kirby · Post by **Ron Kirby** » 24 Aug 2011 4:07 am

Here's Bobbe, A Great person, A great player..
Congratulations Bobbe, HOF well deserved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQaJrQE6Iaw

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 24 Aug 2011 6:26 am

Yes, congratulations to Bobbe.

It doesn't sound in the video like he's using one of his special plastic/wooden tone bars like the one he sold me. Maybe, since it was back in 1993, he hadn't designed them at that stage.

Ron Kirby · Post by **Ron Kirby** » 26 Aug 2011 1:54 pm

Hi Alan, I think Bobbe is using a steel bar in this clip. I did not know he made plastic or wood bars.
I got mine from a sawed end of a broom stick many moons ago, sanded it down and polished it out. It does work great for a banjo sound effect. The next time I am at Bobbe's Steel guitar shop, I will have to buy a new one.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Aug 2011 4:36 pm

He sells them, plus an electronic device that he calls the BoBro, to make a pedal steel sound like a Dobro.
http://www.steelguitar.net/audio/bobro.wmv
Check out this video on his website.

I bought one of those units. I have to say that mine doesn't sound like the one in the video, but neither does my steel guitar sound like the one in the video when the Bobro is switched off.