I like it sometimes, but I also know people who hate it. It's not a part of traditional cajun-music, they say. But it's always a matter of taste and it's used very much nowadays. I have a single neck MSA Red baron pedal steel and the tuning is E9. I know that Richard Comeaux(great musician) is playing cajun with that tuning. Most Cajun steelers use an open tuning and I write this also as a question. It would be great to get some more information about how to play the steel in Cajun. Such as how are the ten/six strings tuned and how is the pedal setup (copedant) on a pedal steel.

Yeah..good points.
Wonder if you made a separate post of the subject of Cajun Pedal steel eg. 'OT Cajun Pedal information required'...like, who plays it, contact numbers, location.
Or got in touch with Richard Comeaux,Junior Martin etc. etc. in the meantime?

Or is there a separate pedal steel forum with Cajun as a sub- heading?

Seems to me you don't absolutely need Pedal Steel in Cajun music but when it is included I find it fills some spaces musically and flavours the music positively. Like harp( harmonica ) players..you just need to know how much to play in a song and when to pull back as almost half strength fill sound behind the accordions and fiddles or simply stop playing altogether . Us harp players tend to get carried away !!