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	Brad's Page of Steel
		The lap steel guitar is held in your lap facing toward you.
		Typically the lap steel guitar is tuned in one of several "open" tunings rather than standard guitar tuning.
		The slide guitar is typically a standard guitar, held the usual way, and fretted with a piece of metal or glass, typically a tube worn on one finger.
	www.well.com /user/wellvis/steel.html (1099 words)

	Steel guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steel guitar refers to a method of playing on a guitar held horizontally, with the strings uppermost and the bass strings towards the player, and using a type of slide called a steel above the fingerboard rather than fretting the strings with the fingers.
		Steel guitar technique also developed from bottleneck guitar, which is a similar technique to steel guitar but with the guitar held in the conventional position, and using a different form of slide to accommodate this playing position.
		The term steel guitar should not be confused with steel-strung guitar, which is a standard acoustic guitar that has steel rather than the nylon or cat-gut strings used for classical guitar, and is built with extra bracing, a stronger neck, and higher-geared machine heads to cater for the much higher tension of steel strings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steel_guitar (1153 words)

	Larry Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LAP STEEL GUITAR: A lap steel guitar is one type of steel guitar.
		The strings are elevated above the fretboard and rather than pressing the strings to the fretboard, you fret with a steel, or steel bar with the left hand, moving it up and down the strings to create a sliding sound while the right hand plucks the strings.
		Because lap steel guitars are put on the lap, they can have almost any shape, from a simple square plank to a guitar-like shape.
	members.cox.net /larrycampbell2000/lapsteel.htm (160 words)

	FRETS.COM Illustrated Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These were not originally called "lap steels" but, as the first electric guitars, just known as electric steel guitars.
		The popular "pedal steel" is the most commonly used of the steel guitars in Nashville and other recording centers.
		The earlier lap steels are enjoying something of a comeback these days, what with the resurgence of interest in country swing and other period music.
	www.frets.com /FRETSPages/General/Glossary/LapSteel/lapsteel.html (176 words)

	Steel Guitar Forum Products
		The lap steel is often seen as a beginner's instrument, a stepping stone to the pedal steel.
		The tuning is the standard C6th lap steel tuning: C E G A C E (low to high).
		A member of the Steel Gutiar Hall of Fame, Scotty's renditions of the classic steel guitar repertoire are always a big hit at steel guitar shows.
	steelguitarmusic.com /instruction/nonpedal.html (1394 words)

	Build A Lap Steel Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A couple of years ago I wrote a brochure for The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association (HSGA) on how to build a lap style steel guitar.
		I have built guitars with ash, maple, white oak, alder, mahogany, poplar, basswood, and even one using the softwood - yellow pine.
		I prefer to use poplar for a guitar with an opaque finish.
	home.insight.rr.com /steelgtr/build.html (419 words)

	Taropatch.net - Review: "Lap Steel Guitar" by Andy Volk
		The majority of the book consists of interviews by the author with contemporary lap steel players, both acoustic and electric.
		I thought I knew a fair amount about lap steel history, but while reading the book I came across lots of interesting facts that I did not know (for example, I did not know that Andy Iona did not have a right thumb).
		It was interesting reading about peoples' approach to lap steel and thoughts on where it fits in the world of music.
	www.taropatch.net /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2576 (344 words)

	Brad's Page of Steel - Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Manufacturers
		McKenna guitars are known for their consistency in setup, tone, excellent volume, as well as the overall quality and durability of construction.
		Dean Guitars, famous for their pointy-headed guitars during the 1980s (and for a series of ads featuring women in bikinis caressing their guitars), has announced a line of resonator guitars.
		One of his specialities is the SK8Lap lap steel, a combination skateboard/lap steel endorsed by Ben Harper.
	www.well.com /user/wellvis/acoustic.html (4013 words)

	Amazon.com: Lap Steel Guitar: Books: Andy Volk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The guitar was first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1830's by Spanish and Mexican cowboys hired by King Kamehameha III to work the cattle ranches.
		The lap steel guitar is an incredibly expressive instrument that covers a wide range of genres.
		The lap steel cries and moans in country music, wails in roots and rock, and reaches the sublime in east Indian raga.
	www.amazon.com /Lap-Steel-Guitar-Andy-Volk/dp/1574241346 (1589 words)

	Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar
		Guitars from 1930 play alongside new custom-made models and all are recorded (and played) brilliantly.
		As the owner of both a 1955 Gibson lap steel and a mid-70s Dobro Resonator myself, I appreciate every note, every nuance, every country lick, every echo from the classics.
		If steel guitar isn't your cup of tea, then you won't be much attracted by a title like this; but if you've heard the lap steel on someone else's record, on a country song or a bluegrass record, and want to hear what else it can do...
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_va_legends_lapsteel.html (608 words)

	Brad's Page of Steel - Tunings
		The low bass G tuning is used by Bob Brozman on his National steel guitars.
		This tuning has the advantage that it is only different from the standard guitar tuning on one string (hey, it makes it easier for those learning steel as a second language), yet gives easy one-fret bar positionings of all major and minor chords in the standard folk and country keys.
		The good thing about experimenting with tunings on a lap steel is you cannot make the neck go out of adjustment by tuning the strings too high.
	www.well.com /user/wellvis/tuning.html (2533 words)

	Pedal Steel Guitar and Lap Steel Guitar Videos and DVDs
		Steel guitar lessons - learn to play steel guitar or improve your skills.
		The sacred steel tradition is embodied in Darick Campbell's vocal-like, evocative sounds on the non-pedal lap steel.
		Video is done by Grammy award winner Cindy Cashdollar, who is the steel guitar player for the country band 'Asleep at The Wheel'.
	www.iefit.com /music/steel_guitar.htm (386 words)

	Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Round-necked resonator guitars set up for steel playing fall into this category.
		Guitars designed exclusively for lap playing typically have modified necks that make conventional playing impossible.
		Gretsch G5715 art deco electric lap steel guitar
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lap_steel_guitar (652 words)

	Lap Steel Guitar Instructional DVD - Hawaiian Steel Guitar Instructions on DVD - GeorgeBoards Instruments - S8 Lap ...
		Having played Pedal Steel for a few decades prior to the GeorgeBoard adventure we are friends with many pedal steel makers and as a general rule all pedal steel people are very friendly to one another.
		The Magnatone Lap Steel Guitar had used a Plexiglas fret board design and we were already going after that 1950's look and sound so we tried the plexi idea.
		At GeorgeBoards Lap Steel Guitars we are fortunate to have relatives who are wood cutters in Hawaii.
	www.georgeboards.com (2109 words)

	CD Baby: VARIOUS ARTISTS: Legends Of The Incredible Lap Steel Guitar
		Gary is the revolutionary lap steel guitarist for Los Angeles based band 'The Vanduras' and also for the 'Blue Hawaiians' (the greatest 'Tiki' band in the world!).
		Residing on the island of Kauai, he uses the lap steel to play a Tango(!) It's totally unique and shows off a side of the instrument that even those familiar with it would not even conceive of, let alone be able pull off.
		Kayton is an icon of the steel guitar, having played with Country Music legend Hank Snow for 30 years.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/horserock (849 words)

	Harmony Steel Guitar Page
		The "Hawaiian" guitar, as this instrument was sometimes referred to has its roots in the South Pacific and was very popular in the 1940's and 1950's.
		In the 1950's the Pedal Steel Guitar was born, and the lap steel faded into obscurity.
		This instrument gets its name "steel guitar" from the steel bar that is used to go up and down the neck to change its tone.
	www.broadwaymusicco.com /Harmony12.htm (729 words)

	Pedal Steel Guitar Instruction and Accessories
		He and his pedal steel guitar have played with some of the best: George Hamilton IV, Tex Ritter, Loretta Lynn, Bobby Bare...back in the early '60s when he did his stint in Nashville.
		The lap steel is more basic, but can still be a great addition to any group, while still presenting a music challenge to the player.
		Along the way, however, he continues to play guitar, often sitting behind the steel with a guitar around his neck.
	www.pedalsteelguitar.net (1294 words)

	Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel Electric Guitar - Music 123
		The Lap Steel reproduces the unmistakable rich tones of an electric Hawaiian guitar.
		This Lap Steel guitar looks great, sounds great but is very cheaply made.
		Because I brought this for its cool look I am getting a new fretboard specially made for it by a professional restorer, which is something you are going to have to do if you want any fret markings left.
	www.music123.com /Gretsch-G5700-Lap-Steel-i128167.music (156 words)

	Lap Steel Guitar - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com
		The Gretsch Lap Steel Guitar is a smooth, yet sonic blast from the past.
		The Lap Steel reproduces the unmistakable rich tones of an electric Hawaiian...
		The Gretsch Guitars Electromatic Lap Steel Guitar pulls unmistakable rich tone from a classic electric Hawaiian guitar.
	www.shopping.com /xGS-Lap_Steel_Guitar (723 words)

	Musurgia - Fine, Rare & Peculiar Musical Instruments
		Rickenbacker 625-H a/k/a Model B Lap Steel Electric Guitar, c.
		Rickenbacker Electro Silver Hawaiian Lap Steel Electric Guitar, c.
		Rickenbacker Electro Silver Hawaiian Model NS Lap Steel Electric Guitar, c.
	www.musurgia.com /catalog_guitar_steel.asp (189 words)

	build a lap steel ? - Acoustic Guitar Forum
		I realised the relationship with fret positions relative to a standard fretted guitar, but I wasnt sure if the same ratio applied to a lap steel of same scale length.
		Leo, the frets are in the same place as a regular guitar of the same scale length and the centre of the bar needs to be directly above the fret.
		What can be confusing is your viewing angle changes as you move the bar along the neck, so at the bottom end it looks like it's behind the fret, but it looks closer to the fret as you move up the neck.
	www.guitarseminars.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/002982.html (771 words)

	Got me a lap steel. - Acoustic Guitar Forum
		The Pedal Steel pages has lots of info for pedal, non-pdeal, and lap steel.
		Steel instruction is categorized by the open tuning you like to use...common ones: Low G (Brozman favorite), high G (bluegrass), D, C6.
		The standard acoustic resophonic guitar (ie dobro) is strung with a set of strings that are meant to be tuned to the GBDBGD tuning (low to high).
	www.guitarseminars.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000310.html (1608 words)

	Amazon.com: Legends Of The Incredible Lap Steel Guitar: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lap Steel Guitar has been called..."the most expressive and toneful instrument ever conceived".
		My only gripe is that much of the music deviates from what is known as the "lap steel guitar" (a relatively small electrified six to 10 string instrument), offering various slide guitar and resonator guitar songs as well.
		I was not disappointed with the sound, but thought that they could have either called it something else or included more actual lap steel guitars on the record.
	www.amazon.com /Legends-Incredible-Lap-Steel-Guitar/dp/B0000WU39Q (675 words)

	Mike Auldridge Resophonic and Dobro Guitar Instruction Center
		If you are a six string resophonic guitar player, or a pedal steel guitar player, and you want to get into the 8 string reso, this instruction will prove to be a valuable tool in your search to add swing, jazz, or country styles to your reso songbook.
		MSA Steel Guitars The builder of fine, world-class pedal steel guitars and the NEW SuperSlide Lap Steel....
		Mike is currently playing the Mike Auldridge Resophonic guitar, made by Beard Guitars in Hagerstown, MD., also a vintage push/pull Emmons D10 pedal steel, a Carter Pedal Steel, an MSA SuperSlide lap steel, a vintage Rickenbacher Lap Steel guitar, and a vintage Weissenborn acoustic steel guitar.
	www.mikeauldridge.com (4483 words)

	eBay - steel guitar lap, Guitar, Instruction Books, CDs, Videos items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lap Steel Guitar Instruction DVD - Hank Williams Sr.
		New Lap Steel Guitar strings 6 string key of E
		LAP PEDAL STEEL GUITAR STEVENS CONTOUREED HEAVY SLIDE
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=steel+guitar+lap&... (518 words)

	Homespun Tapes - Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell
		The sound of sacred steel guitar has been bringing House of God congregations to depths of emotion and heights of joyous exhilaration since it was first introduced to worship in the 1930s.
		In recent years, the Campbell Brothers band, with Darick Campbell’s riveting 8-string lap steel playing, have taken the power and brilliance of this African American gospel music to secular audiences worldwide.
		This DVD gives you a close-up look at Darick’s lap steel technique and teaches you to play in his unique style.
	www.homespuntapes.com /prodpg/prodpg.asp?prodID=1255 (237 words)

	Become.com - Shop results for lap steel guitar
		DVD-Sacred Steel-Learn the Lap Steel Guitar of Darick Campbell
		The sound of "sacred steel" guitar has been bringing House of God congregations to depths of emotion and heights of joyous exhilaration since it...
		Chandler steels are used by leading pro players for 2 simple reasons: great sound and...
	www.become.com /shop?q=lap+steel+guitar (281 words)

	Pedal Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar - Rickenbacker - Sound Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My old 6-String Rickenbaker guitar does not produce any sound through my amp from the 17th fret on up.
		Of course, if you cannot locate a pickup for your Rickenbaker, then the solution may be to get another guitar.
		This cause is very rare: your amplifier may have a partial failure and may not be able to completely reproduce all sounds and frequencies.
	www.steelguitar.com /askbud/askbud10.htm (232 words)

	Aloha Traditional Hawaiian 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.
		This Spanish guitar was a gut string guitar.
		The actual origins of the Hawaiian steel guitar may never be known for sure.....Own a piece of island heritage with SurfCity's Aloha lap steel.
	hbdave.mynewweb16.com /aloha_lap_steel_guitar.htm (194 words)

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