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2. Pedal steel guitar - Wikipedia

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   Modern pedal steel guitar with two necks. The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play unlimited glissandi (sliding notes) and deep vibrati ...

3. Sho-Bud - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1950s Shot installed string pullers with pedals on Fender, Rickenbacker, and other steel guitars. Shot approached steel guitarist Bud Isaacs to start the Sho-Bud company together, using the terms "Sho" named after Shot Jackson and "Bud" after Bud Isaacs. Bud Isaacs was an early partner in the endeavor, and was involved in designing ...

4. Steel guitar - Wikipedia

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   Now steel guitars could be manufactured in any design, even a rectangular block bearing little or no resemblance to the traditional guitar shape. The result were table-like instruments in a metal frame on legs called "console steels", which were technologically improved about 1950 to become the more versatile pedal steel guitar.

5. The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can ... - AOL

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   The Hawaiian steel guitar, an Indigenous instrument and once a cultural force, now garners little recognition even in the place of its birth ... Pedal steel player player Speedy West poses for a ...

6. Universal tuning - Wikipedia

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   While most touring professional pedal steel guitarists tend to either carry a double neck guitar (D-10 with E9 and C6 tunings) on the road, many have found that a single neck 10 string pedal steel guitar with the E9 tuning is enough for their needs. Some pro players have chosen a 12- or 14-string pedal steel for touring and recording sessions.

7. Zane Beck - Wikipedia

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   Zane Beverly Beck (1927–1985) was an American steel guitarist and builder of pedal steel guitars. [1] He is best known for his 1952 innovation of adding knee levers to the pedal steel guitar to alter the pitch of certain strings, [2]: 2 a feature which has become a standard on all modern-day instruments.