Mispronounced Guitar Names

[JimPage]

Hey--

I used to have an old metal Rick laptop that had the name spelled "Rickenbacher" on the metal headstock plate.

--Jim

[Veenture]

..."laptop"....."headstock" ....I don't see the connection (yet)... help us out Jim

[dubtrub]

..."laptop"....."headstock" ....I don't see the connection (yet)... help us out Jim

Laptop steel guitar

[mark1]

JimPage.....I think the original way was Rickenbacher then it was changed to Rickenbacker.Check the Rickenbacker Forum. They know all Ric.



Veenture......I always knew them as just knickers. Let's make this clear,I'm to young to remember. Granda told me.

[JimPage]

Sorry, Veenture! I suppose that folks nowdays associate the word "laptop" with a computer!

This was a short Hawaiian-style steel guitar that folks laid flat on their laps to play. We called 'em laptop guitars but that probably isn't a correct term. Lap steel guitar is probably correct.

The link Danny provided shows some of these, and, as Mark1 said, Rickenbacker changed the spelling of their name in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

By the way, I'm suprised to see on that link that folks are still making those lap steels. You could find them pretty cheap in pawn shops for a long time. I paid $4 for the one I got, though that was in 1971. I never got the hang of playing it though I tried off and on for years to learn how.

--Jim

[Veenture]

..."laptop"....."headstock" ....I don't see the connection (yet)... help us out Jim

Laptop steel guitar

Hey guys, I get the picture, thanks Danny and Jim…”laptop” as opposed to “pedal” (steel), right. Dang, I could’ve known…(admittedly, my age betrays me here mark1 ).

Laptops of the stringed type, knickers and my goodself must've been around surely long before computers of the digital kind started arriving on the scene...

…anyway it’s as they say, “you live and learn”…

[dubtrub]

Veenture,

Don't age yourself. I'm 63 and still think like I'm 23.

[Veenture]

Veenture,

Don't age yourself. I'm 63 and still think like I'm 23.

Yeah, you're right dubtrub...after all, "men will be boys"

[Sixstringer]

I guess that's sorta like Americans saying Randy BOCK-man and Canadians (including him) say Randy BACK-man.