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The Steel Guitar

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A few of the words

DOBRO
The Dobro resonator guitar, with its distinctive spun-metal cone inside the body, became a beloved voice in country and bluegrass after the Dopyera brothers introduced it in 1929.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BOTTLENECK
Before purpose-made steel bars, early players slipped the neck of a glass bottle over a finger to slide along the strings — a technique that traveled from the Delta blues straight into the soul of country music.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VIBRATO
On a pedal steel, even a held note breathes — players rock the bar gently to create a warm, wavering vibrato that stretches a single note into something that seems to sigh.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LAPSTEEL
The lap steel is played flat across the knees, the strings facing upward, with a solid metal bar taking the place of the fretboard hand — an intimate posture that gives the instrument its own quiet authority.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Steel guitar word search — free and large-print. Chase the shimmer of a pedal steel, the warm slide of a lap bar, and the open-tuned twang that defines classic country.

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The steel guitar has been crying and singing its way through country music since the earliest days of the Grand Ole Opry, its glassy, sustained notes floating above fiddles and rhythm chords like smoke above a honky-tonk. Players press a steel bar — or a glass bottleneck — along the strings rather than fretting them with fingertips, bending notes into long, aching slides that feel more like a human voice than an instrument. The pedal steel, with its foot pedals and knee levers shifting pitch mid-phrase, took that shimmer even further, and its sound became the unmistakable heartbeat of classic Nashville.

How to play

  1. 1
    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
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    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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