PEDAL STEEL GUITAR Definition & Meaning

pedal steel guitar

noun

an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.

pedal steel guitar

noun

a floor-mounted, multineck, lap steel guitar with each set of strings tuned to a different open chord and foot pedals to raise or lower the pitch

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Origin of pedal steel guitar¹

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70

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The track puts a string section behind a country band topped with pedal steel guitar, while Phosphorescent stays serenely inconsolable.

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The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken - a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.

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The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken — a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.

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It was a stew of steelpans, trombones and pedal steel guitar.

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They were the first bluegrass group of national renown to incorporate drums, electric bass, pedal steel guitar and even, on records, string sections.

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