Also, the costs of the wood and metal, as well as the manufacturing of the pedal steel guitar parts, is expensive. The mechanics (meaning the foot pedals and knee levers) bend the strings, which creates that classic pedal steel sound. Pedal steel guitars are expensive partly because so much work goes into the mechanics on the underside of the instrument. Why are pedal steel guitars so expensive? Pedal steel guitar music is most closely associated with Hawaiian and Country music, but can be heard in a wide number of musical genres, including ambient music, blues, jam bands, and rock and roll. Pedal steel guitars are a stringed instrument that’s played by a seated player who presses a bar against the strings in one hand, plucks the strings with the other hand, and uses their feet and knees to bend strings up and down with levers and pedals. Whether you're looking for a starter pedal steel with one neck, or a vintage classic with two, you can find your next pedal steel guitar on Reverb. This sound proved central to the popular country style of the '50s and '60s, and remains a central feature of country stages and studios in Nashville and beyond. Played with a sliding bar on an open-tuned set of strings, the various features of a pedal steel guitar allows the player to modulate and alter different notes which creates a distinctive pedal steel guitar sound that’s described as a twang. Evolving out of the popular Hawaiian and lap steel guitar styles of the 1920s and '30s, innovators like Paul Bigsby, Buddy Emmons, and Zane Beck began adding new features to steel guitars like pedals and knee levers which expanded the musical range of these instruments. Pedal steel guitars helped define the sound of country music with a history that goes back to the 1940s.
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