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The pedal steel guitar is a kind of electric guitar making use of a metal slide for stopping the strings, instead of fingers on strings as with an usual guitar. The pedal steel is positioned horizontally on a stand and the strings face up towards the performer, and is usually plucked with finger picks. The pedals of the pedal steel guitar are used to modify the pitch of its strings while being performed; the action of the pedals can also be fixed, or can be configurable by the performer to choose which strings are influenced by the pedals. This instrument, with its smooth portamento, bending chords and intricate riffs, is one of the most identifiable and typical instruments of American country music. While there are some typical pedal assignments, a lot of sophisticated players devise their own setups, called cope dents.
The range of cope dents that can be set up varies significantly from model to model. After market modifications to make extra cope dents possible are frequent. The pedal steel derived from the lap steel and console steel guitar.
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Here is a video about a pedal steel lick on a standard electric guitarPedal steel guitar considerations
Similar to the console steel guitar, a pedal steel guitar may have several necks, but the pedals make even a one-neck pedal steel guitar a much more elastic instrument than a multiple neck console steel guitar. A lot of steel guitar players specialize in playing on both pedal steel and some type of lap steel. A mostly popular second instrument for pedal steel guitar musicians is the resonator guitar ( called Dobro) performed in steel guitar fashion (played face up on the player's lap)