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The Rage of Pedal Steel Guitar Adventures
New designs of sound from a previously over-categorized musical instrument
click here for a video explaing in detail what the pedal steel guitar is and how it works, and view a performance.
You've got something going, like a new sound, and that's something that really caught the attention of casual observers. You tell them it's a new keyboard sound, and they might believe you, with all of the synthetic sounds these days. Only it's not a keyboard. It's new sounds from an instrument called a pedal steel guitar. Music fans are hip to something that sounds sophisticated, that really speaks to them. The jazz language knows no boundaries and the sound of a steel guitar playing a developed vocabulary of this powerful but delicate language will speak in it's own way. It's actually not new. In fact there is a whole history of pedal steel guitarists who have been playing jazz and any other style of music imaginable. Hal Merrill has been playing steel guitar for almost 30 years, and recently has added a few new recordings to his collection.Copyright 2008. Halmerrill. All rights res