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The Steel Guitar

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

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.

About The Steel Guitar

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

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
  2. 2
    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
  3. 3
    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
  4. 4
    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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