Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

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Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby johnboy1947 » Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:05 pm

Has anyone seen a Mosrite pedal steel guitar. I recently acquired one and am looking for any information I can find. Having trouble uploading pictures of it.
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Postby Sarah93003 » Thu Jun 08, 2017 10:31 pm

Welcome. I've never seen one. It would be great to see various photos to study it up close. If you have Photobucket or some other photo sharing site you can upload your images there and then post links in your forum post.
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Postby Bob Shade » Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:20 am

I have never seen one either. I never knew how great of a steel guitarist she was. WOW!

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Postby Sarah93003 » Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:26 am

Bob Shade wrote:I have never seen one either. I never knew how great of a steel guitarist she was. WOW!



That's true too. Very impressive!!
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1965 Mosrite Celebrity Prototype with Vibramute
1972 Mosrite Celebrity-III
1977 Gibson MK-53
1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
2006 Jude Les Paul 12 String

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Re: Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby johnboy1947 » Sat Jun 10, 2017 6:57 pm

Got this word today on Dana Moseley's facebook page.

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To answer all the questions concerning this beautiful vintage steel. Yes! This is authentic, built by my father, Semie Moseley, for Barbara Mandrell. I verified this with Barbara Today. Mosrite Forever.

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Re: Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:46 am

So, that leads me to think that the one you got actually belonged to Barbara Mandrell as one point. Is that right? I'd also love to hear the story of how you happened to own this piece. Any other information such as dimensions, operation, etc. would be cool as well.
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1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
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Re: Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby johnboy1947 » Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:16 am

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

You can see what Dana Moseley had to say about it. If you open up the comments you will find out what other people are saying about it. I don't have a lot of details about it's history before I got it. Wish I did. I purchased it from a guy in Florida. He said that he had owned it for about 10 years. He claimed he had received it from a woman, who purchased it at a charity auction for a little over $10,000. Neither of them were able to verify its authenticity. I just thought it was neat. It was later that I found the video of Barbara Mandrell actually playing it. When I received it it came without legs. After I actually tried to put it together, it became obvious that the pedal rack was not correct for the guitar. I am in the process of building a new pedal rack for it now. Will probably take a couple of months, but should be playing again in short order. All of the main part of the steel seems to be completely original. Whatever pictures you need, just let me know, and I can take them.

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Re: Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby johnboy1947 » Wed Dec 26, 2018 4:34 pm

I was able to get in contact with Barbara Mandrell and she graciously verified that this steel was hand made by Semie Moseley for her. And she did play it on The Melody Ranch.

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Re: Mosrite pedal steel guitar?

Postby 101Volts » Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:24 pm

That's surprising that it's the very same instrument. I've never heard of a Mosrite Pedal Steel Instrument either (maybe aside from the crutch instrument Semie made for Barbara later,) I guess Semie only built this one and maybe a few others. Here, I've linked some of the images to this thread:

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