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Ernie Ball is a Californian whose real name is Sherwood Ball. He played the club circuit and appeared on local television, and started as a small business entrepreneur. With deep roots in country music and western swing Ernie Ball was a pedal steel guitar player.

By age 19 he joined the Tommy Duncan Band playing pedal steel guitar. Duncan, the former lead singer with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, took the band on tour through the Southwestern United States. Ball died in September 2004. Bob Willis would have said Ernie Ball rang those silver bells.

A list of artists who use Ernie Ball guitars can be seen on the company's website