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Forrest "Bud" Isaacs (1928–2016) [1] was an American steel guitarist who made country music history in 1954 as the first person to play pedal steel guitar on a hit record. He is known for his playing his innovative technique on Webb Pierce's 1954 recording of a song called "Slowly" which became a major hit for Pierce and was one of the most-played country songs of 1954.
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 —characteristics it shares with the human voice.
Developed. 1885. Playing range. Variable depending on choice of tuning. The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or Lap Slide Guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional acoustic ...
Sho-Bud. 1979 Sho-Bud Double 12. Country singer Hermann Lammers Meyer playing a Sho-Bud with the Emsland Hillbillies at the International Truck Grand Prix Country Festival 2013, Nürburgring, Germany. Sho-Bud is a brand name for a manufacturer of pedal steel guitars that was founded by Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons in 1955 in Madison, Tennessee.
A steel guitar (Hawaiian: kīkākila[1]) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar in that it is played without using frets; conceptually, it is somewhat akin to ...
The Steel Guitar Hall of Fame is an organization established in the United States in 1978 to recognize achievement in the art of playing the steel guitar. The organization's stated purpose is: To establish a Hall of Fame and Museum to support the art, popularity, and prestige of the steel guitar, to honor those musicians and composers who have ...
Neil Flanz. Neil Lanny Flanz (June 22, 1938 – December 2, 2021) was a Canadian pedal steel guitarist who grew up in Montreal. [1] In the mid-1960s he moved to Nashville and played on the Grand Ole Opry. He later lived in Florida and Austin, Texas. [1] The Austin Chronicle dubbed Flanz' playing style as "country traditionalist". [1]
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. [1][2] He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. [3] Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also ...