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Definition of pedal steel
: a box-shaped musical instrument with legs that has usually 10 strings which can be altered in pitch by the use of pedals and which are plucked while being pressed with a movable steel bar
— called also pedal steel guitar
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Recent Examples on the Web Other musicians include Phish drummer Jon Fishman, cellist Zoe Keating and pedal steel guitarist Brett Lanier.
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Jon Bream, Star Tribune, "Minnesota guitar great Leo Kottke to release a new album with Phish's Mike Gordon," 18 Aug. 2020 Along the way, he and longtime friend, broadcast journalist Bud Veazey collaborated to design and build a lap version of the pedal steel.
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Mark Woolsey, ajc, "Wade Medlock, a drive-time Atlanta radio reporter, dies at 73," 3 Mar. 2020 Levine was a founding member, and so was his sibling, Nick Levine, whose pedal steel echoes the sorrowful sound of Hall’s voice.
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Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, "Pinegrove Stages a Complicated Comeback," 13 Jan. 2020 But Richard Bennett played pedal steel for the song's early stage, then grabbed a six-string of his own to lock into the guitar line with Knopfler and the saxophone did the crying.
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Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, "Mark Knopfler stops time in Sugar Land," 7 Sep. 2019 There's some lovely pedal steel guitar on there, and, well, perfect use of a musical triangle.
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Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, "Khruangbin, Leon Bridges collaborate on EP," 3 Dec. 2019 Typically the pedal steel guitar becomes the crying counterpart to the coda.
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Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, "Mark Knopfler stops time in Sugar Land," 7 Sep. 2019 Any rock band doing business in Muscle Shoals needs to seriously consider a three-guitar frontline, and this take highlights the interplay between Zack Feinberg and frontman David Shaw’s six-strings and Ed Williams’ pedal steel.
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al, "New Orleans’ Revivalists hit Alabama’s FAME studio," 29 July 2019 The sounds of pedal steel guitar and fiddle weren’t always such sought-after sonic commodities.
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John Adamian, courant.com, "Asleep at the Wheel, sophisticated cowboy-hat music, at the Kate," 21 June 2019
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The first known use of pedal steel was in 1965
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