TSGA Benevolence Fund
Charles McClain is the winner of the Carpsteel auction.
Here is a write-up and a photo he sent to us:
My first experience with a "steel guitar" was with a man walking down our street and asking everybody if they would like to play a “steel guitar.” No one in our family knew what he was talking about. And, of course, he wanted to show us. He handed me one of those flat “bars” with raised diamond shapes on it so it would not slip our of the finger grip. I learned to play “In The Mood” on the first five strings of a six-string, non-electric “Hawaiian” acoustic guitar and I was hooked.
I worked all day and tried to play all night and my folks said I’d never learn to play it right -- as the song goes. And in the early fifties a good thing happened; Herb Remington moved to Houston. I had met him when Bob Wells came to Houston and I just knew he would remember ME.
I reintroduced myself to him and we started working together-- he the teacher and me, at best, an intermediate player. By the time I went into the Air Force in 1954, I was good enough to play with a recruiting band on the radio station, WBAM, Big Bam in Montgomery, Alabama.
I have never lost my love for the steel, but I have given up practice, pretty much, so I am not as good as I would like to be. Maybe this beautiful, new Carpsteel will fire up some of the old desire to practice.
A big THANK YOU to Gary Carpenter and Rains Steel Guitars for the opportunity to auction this beautiful custom built Carpsteel nonpedal 10 string single neck with legs and aluminum road case. The body is cherry with a maple neck. Funds generated by its auction will benefit the TSGA Benevolence Fund.
Winning Bidder of the Pedalmaster - TSGA Benevolence Fund Auction
The gentleman that won the bid on the Pedalmaster is Butch Greaff of Woodville, Texas. This guitar auction was a big help to our TSGA Benevolence Fund. I met Butch and wife, Karen, for lunch to deliver the guitar. They are now members of our club, and Butch is now working on becoming a steel guitar player. Butch and Karen are great folks and love the steel guitar.
2010 Guitar Auction to benefit the TSGA Benevolence Fund
A big thanks to Roy Thomas of Pedalmaster for the donation of a beautiful Pedalmaster Diamond T SD-10 with 4 and 5. It has a sunburst finish on maple with stainless steel changers and highly polished flags and pedals.
A big THANK YOU to our 2010 TSGA Jamboree Benevolence Fund contributors:
Ray Harrison, Dottie and Peggy Jack, Dana Stewart, Donna Newberry, Telonics (Dave and Stacy Beatty), LeMay PreAmps (John LeMay), Jody Sanders, Kathy & Milton Willmann, Steve Alcott, Verle Tate, Miss Leslie & Ricky Davis & John coffman, BJS Bars (Bill Stroud), Jim Horan, Mike McGee, Peterson Tuners, Billy Phelps, steelseat.com (Joe Naylor), Wayne Morton, Jean Hughey, Red Kilby,Steeler's Choice Seats (Dan Rollans), Williams Guitar Co.(Bill Rudolph), D2F Covers (Tom Palmer), Mike Headrick, Scentsy (Jennifer Glover), Scotty's Music Inc., Earhart Electronics, Dick and Lois Meis, Jade Jack, Joe Wright, Goodrich Pedals, Curtis & Pat Potter, Doug Jernigan, Show Pro, Doug Childress, G. D. Waller, Mike Silar, Mike Johnson & Joanie Keller, Jim Loessberg, Sue Parkhouse, Tommy Dodd, MSA, Mike & Edie by Design, Edd Kerkow, Gloria Mier, Pedalmaster Guitar (Roy Thomas), GFI (Gene Fields and Bob Dirkmier).
Thanks to Jim and Janet Wise (the witchdoctor and the jester, and to Sissy Privett (the fifties girl), you are invaluable to us. Thanks to David Wright for keeping us safe! As a group, we are very blessed and we will receive more blessings because we gave from the heart.
Barbara Rosetta, Dee Polish, and the TSGA
