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pedal steel guitar
noun
- an oblong, floor-mounted electrified guitar, usually having ten strings, fretted with a steel bar and producing a wailing sound that is modulated by use of a foot pedal.
pedal steel guitar
noun
- a floor-mounted, multineck, lap steel guitar with each set of strings tuned to a different open chord and foot pedals to raise or lower the pitch
Word History and Origins
Origin of pedal steel guitar1
Example Sentences
The track puts a string section behind a country band topped with pedal steel guitar, while Phosphorescent stays serenely inconsolable.
The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken - a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.
The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken — a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.
It was a stew of steelpans, trombones and pedal steel guitar.
They were the first bluegrass group of national renown to incorporate drums, electric bass, pedal steel guitar and even, on records, string sections.
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