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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by lillesvin on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:33PM (#24702551)
> It's intended to be for tapping but that's a common pedal steel technique

I have no idea about how to play pedal steel (but I do play guitar), I thought the string action was way too high on a pedal/lap steel steel to be able to tap on it?

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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by beaugunderson on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:40PM (#24704137)
Correct, the action on a pedal steel is very high (so high that you'd probably break strings if you managed to bend one to the "fretboard") and played with a bar.
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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by mhh__ on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:06PM (#24703922)
I don't own one but I have done some tapping on one in the back of a music shop, so you might be right on average?
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