pedal steel

noun

variants or pedal steel guitar

plural pedal steels or pedal steel guitars

: a box-shaped electric steel guitar 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

[Ben] Keith broke into the business playing pedal steel on Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" …—

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Two years later, Wolf Bros. began to flesh out that initial trio even further, coming to embrace pedal steel, strings and horns on stage via the inclusion of the Wolfpack. —

Jim Ryan, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 There’s pedal steel on two of these three new songs. —

Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024 Saxophones and slick pedal steel make the journey a lot easier to stomach. —

Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024 The track features the two musicians trading lines, supported by Russ Pahl’s gorgeous pedal steel. —

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