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Topic: names for the pedal steel |
George Biner
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Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 23 Jan 2025 9:12 pm |
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there aren't that many I've heard to be truthful
steel guitar
pedal steel guitar
nine piece cheese slicer
electric table
spongebob theme guitar
steel pedal guitar
"that whiny instrument"
what are other names for the pedal steel guitar?
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 23 Jan 2025 11:34 pm
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During my high school years, after I started playing the steel guitar, a group of girls thought it was a piano with strings after I told them I play the steel guitar, and that there are pedals underneath, and you sit behind it to play it-after I explained it, one of the girls says, "you play it like a piano"? and I looked at her, said no, and had to explain it again, this time, telling them about the picks, bar, and pedals, and the same group of girls thought it's strummed like a guitar. I've seen it called pedal guitar, steel pedal guitar, Boxcar Willie once called it a Hawaiian pedal electric steel guitar while introducing his steel player Harland Powell-Harland was playing a twelve string Mullen at a show with Boxcar Willie in Branson, Missouri.
Last edited by Brett Day on 29 Jan 2025 8:58 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 1:14 am
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| Electric cheese slicer |
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Joe A. Roberts
From:
Seoul, South Korea
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 1:20 am
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| “slide guitar like Ritchie Valens used on Sleepwalk” |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 3:04 am
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| Horizontal Pitch Approximator |
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Bill C. Buntin
From:
Cleburne TX
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 5:03 am
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I’ve had bar patrons come up and say “oh we are so glad to finally have a band with an “electric guitar “….they thought it plugged into an electrical outlet.
And I would add “electric Hawaiian “ to the list.
Reece Anderson told a story about a symphony violinist who saw Reece s guitar turned over in the case and actually thought he was going to play the underneath side…until Reece flipped the guitar over and the guy said “oh I’m so relieved to find out it has strings””.
Another name I’ve heard is “emmison guitar” |
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Tucker Jackson
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 5:55 am
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| "Keyboard" |
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Dave O'Brien
From:
Florida and New Jersey
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 6:52 am Steel names
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"upright table slide"
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 8:03 am
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What-E-Call-It-thing that you play.
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Daniel Morris
From:
Westlake, Ohio, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 10:01 am
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Seems there was a previous thread like this.
Playing a gig years ago, a guy (likely feeling no pain) said to me, 'you play a great sitar,dude'.
Who was I to argue?
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1982 Kline U12 Pedal steel
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Bobby Martin
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 11:03 am names
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Years ago at a steel show in Gettysburg Pa we heard Curry Coster a great player, refer to his as a "DIVORCE MACHINE" at the start of his set... Ha!...I can relate to that!!
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john buffington
From:
Owasso OK - USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 11:19 am
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A "lady" asked me once, "is that a Zither?" I said yes,  and it has pedals on it, she replied "how nice"! |
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Bill C. Buntin
From:
Cleburne TX
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 11:46 am
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I like the ones who say, “why do you step on those two pedals all time, the ones on the left?” Are they your favorites?”
Or “the big pedal on the right, is that gas?”
Or “what’s those hangydown thingies”? |
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Andrew Frost
From:
Toronto, Ontario
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 11:49 am
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| Horizontal Pitch Approximator |
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Jon Irsik
From:
Wichita, KS USA
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Lee Rider
From:
Fort Bragg, California, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 1:39 pm
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Musical Bicycle.....
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 2:22 pm
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Some people actually know it's a pedal steel. But otherwise (and frequently), in descending order - slide, slide guitar, steel pedal, and keyboard.
The most common phrase is, "Cool slide, man." |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 4:58 pm
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Laugh every time a post like this comes up.
I had my steel set up near the kitchen and stage steps. Warming up to temperature after ride to gig.
2 little white haired ladies was looking at my guitar and discussing, Was it an adjustable cheese slicer, Or a pedal adjustable noodle cutter. HaHa. |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 8:14 pm
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| Okie Organ |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Jan 2025 8:43 pm
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The best one I ever heard was…
"A double-decker table slide" |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
From:
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2025 2:42 am
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| Don't forget "petal" steel. I get that a lot when it's in writing. I guess it sounds flower-y. |
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Detlef Webert
From:
Europe - DE
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Posted 25 Jan 2025 8:53 am
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I like the one from Steve:
Horizontal Pitch Approximator
great ! |
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Mark S. Miller
From:
Depew, NY, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2025 9:10 am
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| A lady asked me once is that thing you are playing anything like a piano and without missing a beat the bass player lean over my shoulder and said yes, they both have strings the look on that lady's face was priceless |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Andrew Frost
From:
Toronto, Ontario
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Posted 25 Jan 2025 9:52 am
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| Tennessee Ironing Board... |
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