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His parents bought him a triple-neck Fender Stringmaster steel guitar, and he began performing with local bands in South Bend. This was only a temporary whim, but his name may appear in published sources spelled that way, including the song title "Buddie's Boogie". In those teenage years, he started spelling his first name "Buddie" just because he wanted to have six letters each of his first and last names.

By age fifteen, his playing had progressed considerably. He has said that Jerry Byrd and Herb Remington were among his first musical influences. He then began figuring out how to play the country music that he heard on the radio. When he was eleven years old, his father bought him a lap steel guitar and arranged for lessons at the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in South Bend, Indiana, which he attended for about a year.

2 Contributions to design of the steel guitarĮmmons was born in Mishawaka, Indiana.

He won the Academy of Country Music's "Best Steel Guitarist" nine times, beginning in 1969. His name is on a US patent for a mechanism to raise and lower the pitch of a string on a steel guitar and return to the original pitch without going out of tune. Įmmons made significant innovations to the steel guitar, adding two additional strings and an additional pedal, changes which have been adopted as standard in the modern-day instrument. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles.

Īffectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981.

Buddy Gene Emmons (Janu– July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day.