Post #334330 by basilh on Sun, Sep 23, 2007 3:38 AM

Thanks (Mahalo) Thomas and Kawentzmann, You make me feel that I might have been on the right track.

what more could we ask for? I think actually you used a pedal steel on the record I have

Yes pedal steel guitar, but 8 string in the style of the players from Hawaii of that era who ALSO used 8 string pedal, Jules Ah See, Billy Hew Len and many others were featured on recordings from the 50's / 60's. The Hawaii Calls shows and albums (Webley Edwards), Alfred Apaka and others of the top echelon, all used 8 string HAWAIIAN pedal steel guitar, usually a Fender or sometimes a Gibson Electraharp. The style was NOT as per the Country Genre and the technique DIDN't involve the use of the volume pedal (Except very occasionally)

I think it was somewhat embryonic in Hawaii at that time, but the majors in the Hawaiian music business accepted it, notably concealing its use by playing regular non pedal consoles on LIVE performances, and even picturing them on album sleeves. (A practice of not revealing all has been the wont amongst Hawaiian Guitarists since the inception of the instrument)