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career. Speaking about the pedal steel in a 1972 interview, Jerry Byrd said: "Mechanically, there were a lot of bugs, you couldn't keep them in tune, and that drove me crazy" ... So I decided to stay with what I had and keep my identity and ride it out... I never made the change-over." Joaquin
Murphey stayed with the non-pedal lap steel long after his contemporaries had switched over, and with his C tuning. He felt that the Nashville-standard E was, in his words, a "gimmick". He stated in a 1995 interview, "I can't do all that fancy Nashville stuff and I hate it anyhow".
735:, Ohio, in 1920. As a youth, he attended a traveling tent show that came to town; it was a troupe of Hawaiians playing Hawaiian music and featured a polished National steel guitar. Byrd was smitten by the sound as well as the physical appearance of the instrument and said, "That was the day that changed my life". In a musical career divided between Hawaiian music and country music, Byrd helped lay the foundation for the Nashville steel guitar sound. He is credited with developing the C tuning that became the standard of C pedal steels. With
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rushed to get pedals on their steel guitars to imitate the unique bending notes they heard in Isaacs' play. In the months and years after this recording, instrument makers and musicians worked to duplicate the innovations of Bigsby and Isaacs. Even though the instrument had been available for over a decade before this recording, the pedal steel guitar emerged as a crucial element in country music after the success of this song. The pedals allowed playing more complex and versatile music than it was possible on lap steel.
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643:(pronounced Ho-OH-pee-EE) was perhaps the most famous Hawaiian musician whose work spread the sound of instrumental lap steel play worldwide. He was the first steel guitarist to combine Hawaiian music with American jazz. Born in Honolulu in 1902, Hoopii was a gifted talent on lap steel from an early age. When he was a teenager, he stowed away on a
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671:, Oklahoma, he quit school in the eighth grade to join traveling musical troupes. Considered a musical revolutionary, according to music writer Michael Ross, Bob Dunn played the first electrified instrument of any type on a commercial recording. It was a Western swing tune released in 1935, performed by Dunn in collaboration with "
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developed and popularized playing an open tuning while seated with the guitar across his knees while pressing a steel bar against the strings. Following Kekuku's lead, other
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country charts for seventeen weeks. Isaacs' guitar became the first pedal steel guitar on a hit record. More importantly, the sound was immediately recognized by lap steel (non-pedal) guitarists as something both unique and impossible to produce on a non-pedal lap steel. Dozens of instrumentalists
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Francisco. After his arrival in California, he formed a trio and became well known in clubs, theaters, movie appearances and recordings from 1925 to 1950. He combined Hawaiian music with the jazz he heard from clarinet and horn players. He was a trendsetter in his
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of ascending fourths (and one major third) consisting of E–A–D–G–B–E; however, no such standard existed for the
Hawaiian "open tunings" (guitar tuned in a chord). The Hawaiians simply tuned to a chord that suited the singer's voice. Beginning in the days of slack-key guitar in the 1850s, Hawaiian
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Hawaiian music outsold all other U.S. musical genres. This popularity initiated the manufacture of guitars designed specifically to be played horizontally. The archetypal lap steel guitar is the
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so that they do not require any resonance chamber. Guitars in this category may differ markedly from one another in external appearance, and include instruments made from rectangular solid blocks of wood. Some may be small enough to be played on the lap; others may have more than one
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popularized electric slide guitar this way, using a traditional guitar in standard tuning. The term "bottleneck" was historically used to describe this type of playing. Early blues players used open tunings, but most modern slide players use both standard and open.
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against plucked strings (from which the name "steel guitar" derives). Though the instrument does not have frets, it displays markers that resemble them. Lap steels may differ markedly from one another in external appearance, depending on whether they are
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helped define country music in its formative years. Kirby introduced the instrument to a nationwide radio audience. He played a Dobro Model 27, and sometimes a steel-bodied
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available, the design of the lap steel and the way it was played underwent continual change as the style evolved. McAuliffe had two
Rickenbackers, each tuned differently. The instrument's constraints caused leading steel guitarists to add
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Hawaiian guitar. Despite incorporating a resonant chamber in their body, these early acoustic versions of the instrument were not loud enough relative to other instruments. However, in the early 1930s a steel guitarist named
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that combined elements of country music and Hawaiian music. Pioneers of the genre include bandleaders Milton Brown and Bob Wills. Wills in turn hired and nurtured innovative players, who subsequently influenced the genre, including
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music. Many amateur and professional musicians throughout America formed Hawaiian combos in the 1930s and 1940s. The introduction of electrified guitars in the 1930s had a profound effect, boosting commercial Hawaiian music.
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music. Players of these genres typically use the term "slide" instead of "steel"; they sometimes play the style with a flat pick or with fingers instead of finger picks. Pioneers in lap slide include
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counterpoint from below, to harmonize with a third note on top that remains unchanged. The pedal facilitated the move in perfect synchronization and pitch, which was consistent and reliable.
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Miller, Tim Sterner; Stimeling, Travis D., Ed. (2017).
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1492:. Anaheim, California: Centerstream Publications.
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3124:"How to Play Slide Guitar: Bottleneck Basics"
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2176:"Pedal Steel Guitar, Back and To the Future!"
2129:. Adelaide, Australia: University of Adelaide
1875:The Complete Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Method
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3399:Oermann, Robert K. (September 9, 2016).
1518:"Standard Tuning: How EADGBE Came to Be"
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2407:. Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerstream Pub.
2203:The Hal Leonard Lap Steel Guitar Method
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2209:. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard.
2150:"Common Tunings For Lap Steel Guitar"
1547:Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide
1272:while the strings were still sounding
601:Sol Hoopii– Fascinatin' Rhythm (1938)
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3322:The Oxford Handbook of Country Music
2491:Shey, Brittanie (October 30, 2017).
2329:Soboleski, Hank (October 13, 2013).
2282:. Social Education. pp. 402–408
2030:. The Guitar Journal. April 29, 2014
1054:", in 1939 his dobro playing on the
3372:Rauhouse, Jon (September 1, 2012).
3251:Ross, Michael (November 17, 2011).
3193:Slide Guitar For The Rock Guitarist
3026:Spevak, Jeff (September 14, 2014).
2939:"Top Ten Horizontal Guitar Players"
2792:Grimes, William (August 16, 2008).
2118:Cundell, R. Guy S. (July 1, 2019).
1847:"Early History of the Steel Guitar"
1678:Ross, Michael (February 17, 2015).
1550:. New York: Routledge. p. xi.
2970:McArdle, Terence (June 16, 2020).
1400:"History of Hawaiian Steel Guitar"
1365:, an indigenous folk guitar style.
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3224:Seymour, Bobbe (April 30, 2012).
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1786:The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar
1750:Shah, Haleema (April 25, 2019).
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3923:History of the classical guitar
3253:"Forgotten Heroes: Paul Bigsby"
3122:James, Steve (March 25, 2016).
2248:Kienzle, Rich (March 1, 2006).
1611:Troutman, John William (2016).
1585:Fox, Margalit (March 5, 2008).
817:Leon McAuliffe–Steel Guitar Rag
82:Hornbostel–Sachs classification
3028:"20 Shows to put on your list"
2851:Owens, Richie (July 5, 2018).
2820:"How Pedal Steel Guitar Works"
2541:"Dunn, Robert Lee (1908–1971)"
2460:Hawaiian Music & Musicians
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1917:. Mixdown Magazine/Furst Media
177:about 1885, popularized by an
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400:steel-string acoustic guitars
251:. Lap steel pioneers include
4011:Continuous pitch instruments
3095:Walters, Katherine Kuehler.
3062:University of Arkansas Press
2937:Bryson, Alan (May 4, 2020).
1827:. Rickenbacker International
739:, Byrd recorded songs like "
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2549:Oklahoma Historical Society
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741:I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
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2755:Campbell, Michael (2018).
2174:Anderson, Maurice (2000).
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429:Electric lap steel guitars
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387:Types of lap steel guitars
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3259:. Premier Guitar Magazine
3057:Encyclopedia of the Blues
3054:Herzhaft, Gérard (1992).
2697:. Gearhead Communications
1719:Duchossoir, A.R. (2009).
1066:Buck "Josh" Graves (aka "
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4026:1885 musical instruments
3232:. Steel Guitar Nashville
2430:"Who Gets to be 'Hapa'?"
1965:Carlin, Richard (2003).
1872:Perez, Fernando (2016).
1789:. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay.
1783:Phillips, Stacy (2016).
3380:. The Fretboard Journal
2853:"Resonator Guitars 101"
2669:Vintage Guitar Magazine
2583:Univ. of Illinois Press
2436:. National Public Radio
2403:Ruymar, Ruymar (1996).
2254:Vintage Guitar Magazine
2250:"Bob's Playboy Pickers"
2052:Ruymar, Lorene (1996).
1971:. New York: Routledge.
1760:Smithsonian Institution
1684:Premier Guitar Magazine
1544:Weissman, Dick (2006).
1185:Medeski Martin and Wood
947:, played a double-neck
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197:became fascinated with
3913:Electric guitar design
3468:Guitar Player Magazine
3190:Sokolow, Fred (2011).
2913:"Brad's Page of Steel"
2716:Coffee, Kevin (2012).
2200:Helms, Johnie (2009).
1878:. Mel Bay. p. 4.
1853:. Steel Guitar Academy
1851:steelguitaracademy.com
1262:. Nashville guitarist
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2828:Making Music Magazine
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2180:The Pedal Steel Pages
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2028:theguitarjournal.com
508:annexation of Hawaii
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2976:The Washington Post
2539:Foley, Hugh W. Jr.
2526:Library of Congress
2456:Kanahele, George S.
2337:. The Garden Island
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1488:Volk, Andy (2003).
1052:Smoky Mountain Boys
953:Your Cheating Heart
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1756:smithsonianmag.com
1591:The New York Times
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3257:premierguitar.com
3203:978-1-61065-563-7
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2885:vintageguitar.com
2857:premierguitar.com
2695:premierguitar.com
2497:Hustonia Magazine
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1736:978-1-4234-5702-2
1727:Hal Leonard Books
1725:. Milwaukee, WI:
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