steel guitar

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A cousin of the sitar, but with a slightly mellower tone, the sarod is fretless, so pitch sliding, almost like a steel guitar does, is a vital component of the technique.

From Seattle Times

Kern County sheriff’s deputies, who had received a report about two bodies, found the steel guitar player in the driver’s seat of his car and Betty leaning against the rear tire on Aug. 21.

From Seattle Times

Bakersfield musician: Larry Petree, a longtime Bakersfield steel guitar player, and his wife, Betty, were recently found dead in a remote stretch of desert east of California City, The Los Angeles Times reports.

From New York Times

“It will probably always be a mystery how they wound up out in the desert,” said Petree’s friend Norm Hamlet, 87, a steel guitar player who backed Merle Haggard for 49 years in The Strangers.

From Los Angeles Times

They farmed out more drum parts to remote recording, but Andress removed some of them, making rhythm a rippling, implied presence; synthesizers mingle with that most molten of traditional country instruments, steel guitar.

From New York Times