A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret ...

In the video above, Vos demonstrates how the setup enables his ‘violent’ playing style in open G tuning [GGDGBD], as well as showing off his 1957 Fender Champ lap steel and explaining why there’s no ...

In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed ... said to ...

After inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar in his high school dorm, Kekuku became a world-touring guitar soloist. The instrument is played on the lap ... s Fair opened, drawing 19 million people ...

At the Church of the Living God, there's another way of receiving God's message: through the lap steel. It sits on four ... Worthem and many others, the slide guitar doesn't just accompany the ...

Our Mahalo steel came tuned to open E (high to low: E, B, G#, E, B and E), a popular blues slide-guitar tuning used by the likes of Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith guitarist Joe ...

I’ve been campaigning for more slide guitar in metal for years — what would some nasty pedal steel licks sound like amidst wicked slams?? — and my wish has finally been granted by Velocihamster, the ...

But while the lap steel guitar can still ... The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, using a similar gliding ...

N.C., he picked up a lap steel his uncle had built for his mother. Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns ...