Frequently-recommended brands included Carter and their offshoot Magnum, and GFI. Your BEST choice is a fairly modern, used, pro-level S-10 with 3 and 4. (I would also recommend avoiding the old ZB brand - they sound great but are tricky to work on.) Pull-release changers (eg old Marlens) are limited and rather outdated, although some modern student steels use them pretty well. Push-pulls (ie Emmons) have a legendary sound but are difficult and counter-intuitive to adjust for the first-timer. Most modern steels are all-pull, as are old Sho-Buds easy to fix and understand. Mechanically there are basically three types of changer (as the 'bridge' is known). Steels are easy to buy, hard to sell, and a bad choice can suck money and enthusiasm like a leaky boat. Minimum requirement: three floor pedals and two knee levers, the latter set up to raise and lower the E's a semitone. SD-10 = single 10 string on a wide, D-10 type body). (By the way: S-10 = narrow, single 10 string. S-10's will keep you going for a long, long time. but that's another lifetime of study and fun. I would advise a single 10 E9 steel to begin with. Buck, I have a '70s Sho-Bud, and I love it!Ä«jewell - which $$$ modern steels would you avoid, and why? I'm genuinely interested to learn.Äubharlin, as a pedal steel player of just a couple of years, here's my take.
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