Steel Guitars

The elements of an electric steel guitar, mounted horizontally on a stand and played by a standing musician, using a combination of a steel bar and foot pedals to vary the pitch of the instrument.

Emmylou Harris's pedal steel ace shows us how it's done.

All about the history of the Hawaiian steel guitar with references to related sites on the Internet.

How a Hawaiian innovation changed the course of the evolution of Music.

For many, pedal steel guitar is synonymous with country music. The instrument’s sinuous string bending and crying sound has long distinguished the songs coming out of Nashville and Bakersfield from pop, rockabilly, and blues. Recently it’s become rare to hear pedal steel on mainstream country radio, though there are signs of a slight return. Meanwhile, pop, rock, and even avant-garde artists have embraced the instrument.

The Official Website of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. Primary Web resource for Hawaiian Steel Guitar: Events, performances, instruction, recordings, photos, articles by noted performers/enthusiasts, and membership info for this global, non-profit organization.

The pedal steel guitar, with its smooth portamenti, bending chords and complex riffs, is one of the most recognizable and characteristic instruments of American country music. The instrument is a type of electric guitar that is built on legs or a stand and is fitted with foot pedals and knee levers which change the pitch of certain strings.

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fretboard.

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Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel (generally made of metal, but also of glass or other materials).