re: Is the pedal steel guitar a dying instrument?

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But now it's not even a featured instrument in popular country music

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Because it's
"bad rock with a fiddle" - not really country music.

The banjo is hurting, too, as is the mandolin. Frankly, the affordable syntesizer and inexpensive sampling machines have lowered the value of musicianship across the board.

But, these things come in cycles - they said drum machines will kill off the drummers, but they're too tough to die (I mean, really, unless you've just got a crazy badass bass player, the guy you want watching your back in a fight is probably the drummer - if you can keep him sober - the most physically fit member of the band - and would be about average if he was on the crew.)