Country musician Curly Chalker played a pedal steel guitar, an instrument able to play more complex music than steel guitar games that came before it.
Harold Lee Chalker (October 22, 1931  April 30, 1998), known professionally as Curly Chalker, was an American pedal steel guitarist. Country, gospel The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. 
