![]() ![]() They say modern country music has become essentially rock n’ roll, and pedal steel doesn’t have the same kind of voice. “A lot of people bemoan what is happening to the tradition of using pedal steel in country music. “The way it moves, it emulates the human voice.” On Why The Instrument Fits So Well With Country Music Hearing that music and that tune in that context hit my heart like an arrow.” “The first time I heard pedal steel that I noticed was the great Buddy Emmons playing on a Judy Collins tune called ‘ Someday Soon’. On Hearing The Instrument For The First Time The more modern instruments have a series of levers on the underside that are attached to rods, so that when I hit a pedal or a knee lever, it stretches the string.” Hawaiian music was based on being able to take a moveable bar up and down across the strings. “It’s the most modern iteration of what we call the old Hawaiian guitars. ![]()
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