Do you know who this is?
Notice the "palm lever" to the right of his picking hand on this MSA 12 string pedal steel guitar. This is something that you don't see on very many pedals steel guitar....I wonder why it hasn't gone mainstream?
I won't keep you guessing too long. Look at this:
These are photos of steeler Don Crowl, recently of Sacramento, California and now living in Jacksonville, Oregon.
I was over his home yesterday (Tuesday, June 18, 2002) and while he showed my his interesting MSA pedal steel guitar, I took these photos. Also there was steeler, Al Beerli of White City, Oregon. (Al's having health problems so I couldn't get a shot of him behind the MSA.)
If you want to see some other photos I took at Don's home, please go to the URL:
http://www.rvi.net/~aldg/aldgs%20music%20photos/Local%20Venues/Dons%20%20home/
I consider Don arguably the most aspiring pedal steel guitarist around. He's been playing the steel guitar in one form or another since the second half of the 1940s.
He's really a real gentleman and he sure likes to discuss our favorite instrument, the pedal steel guitar.
If you've run into Don Crowl in your travels, please post some comments under this subject thread.
Have a good week; I am as I'm on vacation this week.
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Regards,
Al Gershen
Grants Pass, Oregon. USA
Fender 1000 (1956),
Fender PS 210 (1971) &
Gibson Electraharp EH-820 (1960)
Al's Photos at http://www.alsphotographs.com