Nice lap steelin'

[David Hartley]

[Barry]

Base and doubling as a drummer, never seen that before.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

I quite like this one

but anything that guy does sounds great to me....... If I could get him to demo my 1953 D8 Stringmaster ..reckon it would be sold and gone >>>>>>>>>>>

[Danny Mitchell]

Fantastic! Loved that. BooWah. Well filmed,too. You really see his technique classy technique.
Thanks for posting

[Danny Mitchell]

Could any of the Lap community tell me what tunings he's using,please?

I really love this, and the brush on the double bass works a treat,I've witnessed the polyrythmic Tommy Emanuel using this, his guitar looked like it had been through the wars.

[JeffM]

He uses the same tunings as the great Kayton Roberts

F13
F
D
A
F
G
Eb
C
F

C6th+A7
E
C
A
G
E
C#
A
A (Low bass)

[Danny Mitchell]

Wow! Great post Jeff! And thank you kindly for the comprehensive info.

[JeffM]

I should point out (in case you didn't notice) that Kayton has tuned the high E on his C6/A7 down a semitone for that tune.

Also interesting to hear him using that bass A string around the 17 second mark.

[Danny Mitchell]

Ha, ha, no, that subtlety slipped by me! So that gives Kayton a diminished triad and I (did) notice that he bends the string behind the bar. Fascinating. I've seen Bob Adams pull that move on psg.

Thanks again for the further insight.

[mick hearn]

He is a fantastic player. Good learning curve to convert from youtube and slow down for some of his runs. He also retains that old early sound.