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| | Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The lap steel, dobro and pedal steel guitar are associated most closely with Hawaiian music, country music and bluegrass, though some players have used them in rock music, jazz and other musical genres. | | | The lap steel guitar (also called Hawaiian guitar or simply lap steel or steel guitar) is a type of guitar, and a method of playing the instrument. | | | Acoustic lap steels vary and can be just a traditional looking acoustic with raised strings, or a variation such as a hollowneck acoustic lap steel. |
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| | :: The Lap Steel :: |
| | Lap Steels can be heard in many classic Hawaiian melodies, country songs, and more recently in movie sound tracks, TV commercials, and a variety of musical genres such as rock, gospel and world music. | | | Lap steel guitar: a square-necked acoustic or electric guitar that is held on your lap and played by running a steel bar across the strings to change the pitch. | | | Although the roots of the steel guitar had been somewhat established in Hawaiian music by the 1900's, and later in country music as well, there was a lacking of teachers to educate others how to play lap steel. |
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| | Brad's Page of Steel |
| | Typically the lap steel guitar is tuned in one of several "open" tunings rather than standard guitar tuning. | | | The steel guitar differs from a regular guitar in the way that it is played. | | | Here is a discussion of Hawaiian steel guitar from Lark In The Morning Music in Mendocino, California. |
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| | Floridian: Soul of steel |
| | Though steel guitar is most often associated with country or Hawaiian music, the instrument is uniquely suited to gospel. | | | The cover of the Sacred Steel CD, a compilation of traditional sacred African-American steel guitar music in Florida, features this photo of Willie Eason in the 1940s. | | | Considered the father of sacred steel gospel music, Willie Eason, 81, sings and plays his 1930s Epiphone Hawaiian steel guitar in his Pinellas Point home recently. |
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http://sptimes.com/2002/04/21/Floridian/Soul_of_steel.shtml
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| | FRETS.COM Illustrated Glossary |
| | These were not originally called "lap steels" but, as the first electric guitars, just known as electric steel guitars. | | | In the early years of electric instruments, the 10930s, the steel guitar was often an electric guitar, like these "lap steels" hanging on the wall here: | | | © Frank Ford, 10/13/98 Photos by FF The steel guitar is not a guitar made of steel, and it's not just any old guitar with steel strings. |
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| | Steel Guitar Forum Products |
| | An instructional book of tablature and a play-along CD of the backup tracks for the "A Different Slant" album. | | | Each song is played as a steel guitar instrumental, complete with the classic signature hooks and fills. | | | This excellent text, written by Steel Guitar and Country Music Hall of Fame member DeWitt "Scotty" Scott, is in notation and tablature. |
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http://www.steelguitarmusic.com/instruction/nonpedal.html
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| | AllAboutSurf.com - The Sweet Sound of the Lap Steel Guitar |
| | The Sweet sound of the lap steel guitar is one that has found its way into lots of great music over the years. | | | From country to blues, rock to folk, the tiny instrument played primarily on your lap, or on a stand, makes a unique sound complimentary to any style of music. | | | The Sweet Sound of the Lap Steel Guitar |
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http://www.allaboutsurf.com/0309/articles/bojorquez/index.php
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| | Home Recording dot com BBS - Lap Steel Guitar Amping ? |
| | On the other hand, I've heard plenty of music where the lap steel was used with some distortion or overdrive. | | | One of our songs I play lap steel on, I use a wah on the chorus. | | | I used a Morrell Little Roy Wiggins 8 string lap steel on a CD I did last year. |
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| | Pedal Steel Guitar and Lap Steel Guitar Videos and DVDs |
| | Steel guitar lessons - learn to play steel guitar or improve your skills. | | | Video is done by Grammy award winner Cindy Cashdollar, who is the steel guitar player for the country band 'Asleep at The Wheel'. | | | Features tips for the best steel guitar sound reproduction and steel guitar voiced chords. |
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| | Interview Stars and Players: Frans van Oirschot |
| | The anti pedal riders swear by the lap steel, as in their opinion that instrument is atmosphere determining in Hawaiian music. | | | Together with another Dutch pedal steel veteran, Frans Doolaard, he recorded a solo album called "The Golden Strings of Hawaii" which was released in 1965. | | | Guus had a homemade pedal steel guitar with him, with pulling cables in the undercarriage. |
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http://www.pedalprouniversal.com/folderIndex/folderHTML/interviewFransVanOirschot01.html
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| | Pedal Steel and Lap Steel Instruction |
| | Tommy is the staff steel guitarist on The Grand Ole Opry. | | | Mel Bay is one of the biggest names in music publishing, so it stands to reason that they would go to the center of the steel guitar world when looking for someone to author steel guitar books. | | | Each tune is taught with standard pedal steel tablature, and includes the rhythm track and chord chart. |
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http://steelguitarmusic.com/instruction.html
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| | Pedal Steel and Lap Steel lessons |
| | With Darick Campbell, lap steel and Phil Campbell, guitar | | | The soulful, sanctified sound of sacred steel guitar combines powerful African-American gospel music with bluesy inflections, R&B passion and rock excitement. |
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| | SANTO AND JOHNNY JUMP 1023 Encore - The Best Of The Rest *** |
| | With strings and lap steel issuing glissandoes like in "Song Of The High Seas" from Victory At Sea, this eventually yields to a sorta cowboy melody with chunky rhythm guitar. | | | Rockin; country twango with a jumpin' beat and a happy melody line. | | | If Paul Johnson played lap steel, he probably would have done this song. |
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| | blogjam » Blog Archive » lap-steel |
| | A lap slide player I’d highly recommend listening to is Kelly Joe Phelps, a big influence on my own playing. | | | I make a living playing lap slide guitar (the acoustic version of lap steel), and can offer a few tips. | | | Professionals, suburban moms with their SUVs, goths and skate punks own steel guitars here. |
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http://www.blogjam.com/2004/09/07/lap-steel
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| | West Coast Steel |
| | Along with hearing terrific steel guitar players, you are able to see the latest instruments, accessories, and courses, and have the opportunity to speak directly with all the builders and players of steel guitar. | | | Tommy White, staff steel guitarist for the Grand Ole' Opry and recording session player, is now playing a West Coast Steel Guitar! | | | He has used it on a number of recording sessions and really enjoys the guitar. |
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| | West Coast Steel-Products |
| | West Coast Steel Guitars share design elements of conventional lap steels and modern electric guitars. | | | This guitar is sure to please those of you who have been asking for a guitar with legs. | | | This custom Les Paul®-styled guitar has binding around the body edge and entire fingerboard which serves to accent a spectacular Curly maple top. |
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| | Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel Lap and Pedal Steel Guitars FREE SHIPPING |
| | This Lap Steel guitar looks great, sounds great but is very cheaply made. | | | The Lap Steel reproduces the unmistakable rich tones of an electric Hawaiian guitar. | | | Home >Guitars >Electric Guitars >Lap and Pedal Steel Guitars >Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel |
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http://www.music123.com/Gretsch-G5700-Lap-Steel-i128167.music?affil=chrisb
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| | LAP STEELS (Guitar News Weekly #204, July 29, 2002 - (c) GuitarSite.com) |
| | Many working bands have Steel Guitar Players who use the Pedal Steel Guitar. | | | Mel Bay, the great music educator, told me he played Steel Guitar in addition to his regular Guitar Playing. | | | A Unique kind of music can be played on the Lap Steel. |
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http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/020729/3.shtml
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| | Taropatch.net: Slack Key Guitar Online - Review: "Lap Steel Guitar" by Andy Volk |
| | It spans a huge variety of styles - Hawaiian, country, rock, world music, etc. It has information about the tunings used by the players. | | | They've also put out a couple of steel-oriented books - Lorene Ruymar's "Hawaiian Steel Guitar" and Bob Brozman's "National Guitar". | | | Taropatch.net: Slack Key Guitar Online - Review: "Lap Steel Guitar" by Andy Volk |
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| | Harmony Steel Guitar Page |
| | Big bands, early Rock and Roll bands, Country bands and Jazz bands were home for these guitars. | | | Thousands of steel guitarists got their start on Harmony Lap Steel Guitars. | | | The tape is in stereo so you can pan the steel guitar on the tape out of the mix and this gives you a rhythm track to practice to! |
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| | What was your first lap steel? - The Steel Guitar Forum |
| | Gibson's best instruments were probably pre-war, but they made some quality guitars throughout their history as a lap steel manufacturer. | | | They had an excellent steel guitarist and musician who taught the course. | | | It was an old 6 string standard guitar with the nut raised on it. |
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http://www.steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/002921.html
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| | My Steel Guitars & Amps |
| | When I first started paying attention to steel guitar on recordings it was the sound of a ZB Custom that I fell in love with. | | | Used in combination with almost any of the vintage steels gives the authentic sound of the period - I had long thought it was the recording equipment that made those old records sound that way until I found this baby in the window of a Jewelry store in West Virginia. | | | A classic steel guitar for a classic steel sound. |
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| | NPR : CD Explores the Many Facets of Lap Steel Music |
| | A new CD, Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar, explores the wide variety of musical traditions -- from Hawaiian to Western Swing -- that have evolved around the lap steel. | | | CD Explores the Many Facets of Lap Steel Music | | | NPR : CD Explores the Many Facets of Lap Steel Music |
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| | Recorded Live at the Second Sacred Steel Convention |
| | This is the second Sacred Steel Convention CD, and is our ninth CD in the Sacred Steel Series. | | | “This is the ninth in the Arhoolie Sacred Steel series, and, like several other live albums in the series have already demonstrated, a live recording works mighty fine for this kind of music. | | | God Wants Your Soul To Be Holy - Elder Jerry Taylor, vocal, Bryan "Josh" Taylor, lap-steel guitar |
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| | The Legend Guitar Builders |
| | The L8S is a single P/U 8 string guitar with a single coil EMG select. | | | a collection of Gospel songs for Lap Steel. | | | Lake Luzerne, N.Y. This Slide Guitar Ring site owned by randyrollman. |
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| | HSGA - The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association |
| | The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association is a worldwide organization promoting traditional Hawaiian music and the signature sound of Hawaiian steel guitar. | | | Our site contains information for HSGA members and for non-members who wish to learn about and listen to the beautiful music of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. |
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| | The Berkley Guitar - lap steel |
| | The Berkley Legacy - 8 string Lap Steel Guitar. | | | For more information on tunings for Hawaiian music visit the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association web at http://www.hsga.org/learning/setups.html | | | It gives you an easy way to tune a single neck guitar so you basically have a two, three, four, or 6,561 neck guitar! |
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| | Gretsch G5715 Lap Steel Guitar - SameDayMusic.com |
| | The Lap Steel reproduces the unmistakable rich tones of an electric Hawaiian guitar. | | | General > Guitars > Folk and Other Stringed Instruments > Lap Steels | | | Top > Guitars, Amps, and Effects > Folk and Other Stringed Instruments > Lap Steels |
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| | Faking Lap Steel |
| | Later I imagine I'll try lighter strings (and go up an octave) on the first E B E strings, as the sound of the thicker strings seemed to get lost in the mix I did of the first song I recorded like this. | | | This is actually good, as I don't really want to keep a guitar set up all the time for lap steel, or rather, I need the Les Paul for other things! | | | I put the nut on my Epiphone Les Paul, and seemed to get a nice mellow sound with the rhythm pickup, and a little bit of room reverb (preset 3, as a matter of fact) from my Boss SE-50 multi-fx unit. |
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| | Jerry Douglas - Bulletin Board |
| | Santa Claus brought me one of those Artisan lap steels from Musicians Friend for dirt cheap. | | | 05:43 PM Gary, Buddy Emmons uses a Fender Steel King and swears by it for a steel guitar. | | | 05:06 AM I was watching a "tribute to Gram Parsons concert" on tv last night and Al Perkins was playing mostly pedal steel, but on a couple of songs he played a really great looking lap steel-and sounded killer! |
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| | Horse Rock Records - Lap Steel Guitar And More |
| | We specialize in amazing 'roots' musicians playing a diverse range of musical styles including: lap steel guitar, resophonic guitar, Americana, Folk music, Country, and super picking! | | | You can buy CD's from our site and find all the information you need about the label and our music. | | | Horse Rock Records - Lap Steel Guitar And More |
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| | Brad's Page of Steel - Building Your Own Steel Guitar |
| | Most lap steel guitars were constructed using the same parts as are found on regular guitars. | | | Brad's Page of Steel - Building Your Own Steel Guitar | | | The Musical Instrument Makers Forum is an interactive forum for the discussion of musical instrument construction, design and repair. |
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| | Guild 12-string, National Lap Steel, Piccolo Banjo |
| | While the Martin Company was at last re-bracing its guitars for steel strings and cementing its history (see previous Instrument group), others were already taking the new acoustic guitar a step further and inventing the twelve-string. | | | This bizarre double-neck National instrument is just another of the endless designs of lap steels, the name commonly used for electric, solid-body Hawaiian guitars. | | | Played with a steel bar or “slide,” the number of “necks” (one to three), as well as the number of strings (six to eight), can vary to offer different open tunings. |
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| | Doug Cox Dobro Slide Guitar Lap Steel Resophonic Blues Folk Instructional Music Videos |
| | ...my weissenborn instruments are made by Neil Russell of Celtic Cross Instruments in Victoria, BC and my Brass National-style guitar is made by Sven Nordlund of Kelowna, BC Doug is a Canadian Musician/Producer/Songwriter who plays the Dobro, Slide Guitar, Lap Steel, Weissenborn, Mohan Veena, National Mandolin, Guitar and Resophonic Guitar. | | | Welcome to the Doug Cox webpage of Dobro, Slide Guitar, Lap Steel and Resophonic Guitar. | | | Doug Cox Dobro Slide Guitar Lap Steel Resophonic Blues Folk Instructional Music Videos |
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| | Fender Lap Steel Serial Numbers - Acoustic Guitar Forum |
| | When Fender was purchased from CBS in 1985, CBS did not transfer any historical information on steel guitars, mandolins, violins, or banjos to us. | | | Fender Lap Steel Serial Numbers - Acoustic Guitar Forum | | | The IGS Guitar Forum brought to you by International Guitar Seminars, Woody Mann, Bob Brozman, and Avalon Guitar Instructional DVD's and Tab Books |
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| | History of the Guitar - Music Masters, Inc. |
| | American musician and inventor Les Paul developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s. | | | The twelve-string guitar has six double courses in standard tuning. | | | In the early 1940s, a California inventor, Leo Fender, made some custom guitars and amplifiers in his radio shop and already was working on an amplifier (with no controls) and a matching lap steel guitar (with tone and volume controls). |
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| | Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell Movie: Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell DVD is available ... |
| | Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell Movie: Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell DVD is available from Bestprices.com | | | Here, Campbell teaches his unique style through traditional gospel numbers such as "I'll Fly Away," "Walk with me, Lord," and "Amazing Grace." Campbell breaks apart the chord, bass, and melody sections of each song, so that viewers can tackle each part one at a time. | | | Along with his brother, Darick Campbell has used his eight-string lap steel guitar skills to bring the excitement of this African American gospel music to wider audiences. |
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| | Sierra SL-8 Lap Steel - The Steel Guitar Forum |
| | Of course this is my opinion...but one that seems to be shared by many, many others who have heard this guitar. | | | Heck, I love those guitars so much, I just grabbed 3 Sierra lap cases off ebay, and the guitars ain't even in them.... | | | It is the best sounding and best playing lap steel I have ever played. |
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| | Brad's Page of Steel - Resources |
| | The Hawaiian Steel Guitar (and its great Hawaiian Musicians), edited and compiled by Lorene Ruymar; Centerstream Publishing, 1996. | | | Mel Bay Presents The Art Of Hawaiian Steel Guitar, Stacy Phillips; Mel Bay Publications, 1991. | | | John Tipka, (jtipka@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu), for information on the steel guitar stores, and for pointing out my HTML errors. |
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| | Hawaiian Steel Slide Guitar |
| | Harper played a Dart Hawaiian Steel Guitar on "Glory and Consequences" on the CD The Will to Live | | | Ben Harper currently owns three Dart Slide Guitars. | | | Note: Ben Harper commissioned 2 Dart bowl-back style lap steel slide guitars |
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| | Jerry Douglas - Bulletin Board |
| | 03:52 PM Back in the day I used a lap steel guitar instead of a dobro (due to sound reinforcement issues) in an electric bluegrass type band. | | | I love to play along with the Allman Bros on the electrics (I love the control), and I can make the acoustics sounds pretty darned good on many un-slidey tunes. | | | A lap steel tends to be more responsive to a soft touch, has more sustain (usually) and more variability in tonal range, depending on the pickup or pickups used.A dobro needs a good solid touch, sustain is less (although generally better than a standard six-string guitar). |
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http://www.jerrydouglas.com/BBDetail.cfm?MessArch__ID=4988
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| | Aloha Traditional Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar |
| | This Spanish guitar was a gut string guitar. | | | Join in the band or add to your repertoire with the new Aloha Lap Steel guitar! | | | As we know guitars while some guitars may have made their way to Hawaii in the early 1800's along with the many European sailors who visited Hawaii, the origin of Hawaiian guitar music is generally credited to the Mexican and Spanish cowboys who were hired by King Kamehameha III around 1832. |
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http://www.surfcityinstruments.com/aloha_lap_steel_guitar.htm
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