Editing Steel guitar (section)

====Modern country music and pedal steel====
The original idea for adding pedals to a console guitar was simply to push a pedal and change the tuning of all the strings into a different tuning<ref name="anderson">{{cite web|last1=Anderson|first1=Maurice|title=Pedal Steel Guitar, Back and To the Future!|url=https://www.b0b.com/infoedu/future1.htm|website=The Pedal Steel Pages |access-date=September 16, 2017 |date=2000}}</ref> and thus obviate the need for an additional neck, but these early efforts were unsuccessful. Around 1948, [[Paul Bigsby]], a motorcycle shop foreman, designed a pedal system.<ref name="winnie-winston">{{cite book |last1=Winston |first1=Winnie |last2=Keith |first2=Bill |title=Pedal steel guitar |date=1975 |publisher=[[Oak Publications]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8256-0169-9|page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzEZAQAAIAAJ}}</ref> He put pedals on a rack between the two front legs of a console steel guitar to create the [[pedal steel guitar]].<ref name="bigsby-ross">{{cite magazine |last1=Ross |first1=Michael |title=Forgotten Heroes: Paul Bigsby |url=https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Forgotten_Heroes_Paul_Bigsby?page=2 |magazine=[[Premier Guitar Magazine]] |access-date=September 11, 2017 |date=November 17, 2011}}</ref> The pedals operated a mechanical linkage to apply tension to raise the pitch of certain strings.<ref name="bigsby-ross"/> In 1953, musician [[Bud Isaacs]] used Bigsby's invention to change the pitch of only two of the strings, and was the first to push the pedal while notes were still sounding.<ref name="hawaiian-electric"/>[[File:Sound of steel guitar (pedal).ogg|thumb|Western Swing played on a pedal steel guitar]] When Isaacs first used the setup on the 1954 recording of Webb Pierce's song called "[[Slowly (Webb Pierce song)|Slowly]]", he pushed the pedal while playing a chord, so certain notes could be heard bending up from below into the existing chord to harmonize with the other strings, creating a stunning effect which had not been possible with on a lap steel.<ref name="hawaiian-electric"/>  It was the birth of a new sound that was particularly embraced by fans of [[Country-and-Western Music|country and western music]], and it caused a virtual revolution among steel players who wanted to duplicate it.<ref name="brenner">{{cite web|last1=Brenner|first1=Patrick|title=Early History of the Steel Guitar|url=http://steelguitaramerica.com/instruction/history/|website=steelguitaramerica.com|publisher=Patrick Brenner|access-date=June 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="winnie-winston"/> Almost simultaneously, an entire musical subculture took a radical stylistic tack.<ref name="cundellthesis">{{cite web |last1=Cundell |first1=R. Guy S. |title=Across the South: The origins and development of the steel guitar in western swing |url=https://b0b.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Across-the-South.pdf |website=b0b.com |publisher=University of Adelaide |access-date=November 29, 2020 |ref=PhD Thesis, Elder Conservatorium of Music |location=Adelaide, Australia |date=July 1, 2019}}</ref>  Even though pedal steel guitars had been available for over a decade before this recording, the instrument emerged as a crucial element in country music after the success of this song.<ref name="hawaiian-electric"/> When the lap steel was thus superseded by the pedal steel, the inherent Hawaiian influence was brought into the new sound of country music emerging in [[Nashville]] in the 1950s.<ref name="cundellthesis"/> This sound became associated with American country music for the ensuing several decades.