Steel guitar, strictly speaking, refers to a method of playing using a metal slide (or ‘steel’) on a guitar played horizontally, with the strings uppermost. This covers lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar and ‘Dobro’ style guitars. The technique was invented in and popularized by Hawaii, thus Hawaiian guitar, and is predated by bottleneck guitar. A ‘Steel Guitar’ is one designed exclusively to be played using a steel slide.
Most commonly, these are the lap steel and pedal steel. The lap steel is a simple instrument, typically having 6 strings and tuned to either standard tuning, or an open chord. The pedal steel can have between 9 and 13 strings, and sometimes two or even three necks, each in a different tuning. Pedals and knee-levers are used to alter the tunings of different strings, which gives the instrument its distinctive voice, most often heard in country music.
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Electric guitar strings are usually wound with nickel plated steel; pure nickel and stainless steel are also used. Bass guitar strings are most commonly wound with stainless steel or nickel. ... Read Article
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His performance on "Together Again" has been considered "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music", as described in an obituary by Country Music Television His unique steel guitar sound was known as "The Brumley Touch" and he was recognized by the Academy of Country Music ... Read Article
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The Peterson StroboFlip™ Compact Virtual Strobe™ Tuner is of special interest to steel guitar players. This tuner allows the steel player to tune each string to '0'. ... Access Document
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Welcome! This help file contains an overview of the Kontakt Edition of the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar, version 2.5. Reading it carefully and practicing the playing methods it describes will enable you to use this powerful virtual instrument in as many musical applications as possible. ... Content Retrieval
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Table of contents Check out this book's website 3 Parts of a lap steel guitar 6 What is a lap steel guitar? 7 Building a lap steel is easy 8 Why building a lap steel guitar is easy 8 Measurement systems 9 A closer look at inches and millimeters 9 My tiny workshop 11 My small workbench 12 My vise ... Access Doc
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As "Winter draws on," let's brighten up the atmosphere with a little guided tour of what is known as the "steel guitar" family, aka the Hawaiian guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro and Pedal Steel guitar. ... Access Doc
Confusingly, metal-bodied guitars (commonly nickel-plated brass), although frequently played using a metal (or glass) slide, are not properly called steel guitars - they are ‘resonator’ guitars, which, instead of the more common soundhole, utilise a kind of internal metal (usually spun aluminium) loudspeaker, to amplify the sound. One make of resonator guitar is the Dobro guitar which features a metal cone where the sound hole would normally be. Versions of this type of guitar, by Dobro and other manufacturers such as National, may feature the entire body made out of wood, painted steel, plated steel or plated brass (a 1937 Style ‘O’ National resonator is shown on the cover of the Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms). The term ‘steel guitar’ should also not be confused with steel strung guitar which is a normal acoustic guitar that has steel rather than nylon or cat-gut strings, although the bass strings will be wound with a bronze alloy, giving the distinctive gold colour.
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