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The pedal steel guitar is a string instrument mounted horizontally on a frame and played while seated. The player typically plucks the strings with the right hand while moving a steel bar along the strings with the left. The instrument has no resonance chamber; its sound is transmitted by an electric pickup to an amplifier. Like all steel guitars, the pedal steel can produce smooth glissandi (sliding notes) and controlled vibrato, expressive techniques akin to the human singing voice. What distinguishes the pedal steel from earlier steel guitars is a set of foot pedals and knee levers that raise or lower the pitch of selected strings. The mechanism was developed in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s to extend the instrument's harmonic capabilities. It allowed players to form chords and voicings that were previously unavailable on a steel guitar, and its pedals enabled distinctive sounds that became a defining element of country music in the latter half of the twentieth century. The first No.