The Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and early '30s was a pivotal era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before ... Pedal steels are strange devices, looking somewhat like a 10-string guitar with levers that change the pitch of individual strings.

The Grail and the Lotus; Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis; Pasha II; A Study for Steel String; Ackerman Special; Apres Midi American; Variations on Grieg; Scottish Rites; Pavan India; Variations on Ezumi; ...

Randy Boyd doesn’t only continue to play the steel guitar because it’s “fun.” Originally from Port Lavaca and now a Victoria ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...