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A steel guitar (Hawaiian: kīkākila [1]) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar".
The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, which utilized a similar gliding technique while holding the guitar upright.
The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play unlimited glissandi (sliding notes) and deep vibrati—characteristics it shares with the human voice.
Vega also produced two successful lines of Hawaiian, or lap steel, guitars: The Vega Commander, and its top-of-the-line Triumphal which featured a lap as well as a console version. As the 1940s and 1950s unfolded, the quality of Vega instruments declined and it became clear that the company's most innovative and productive years had passed.
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. [1] [2] He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. [3]
The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former US musical instruments company and current brand owned by Saga Musical Instruments.Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the 1930s and became known for a wide range of resonator stringed instruments, including guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles.