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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 at AllExperts
		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.allexperts.com /e/s/st/steel_guitar.htm (1176 words)

	The Steel Guitar in Country Music History from Thanks for the Music Legends of Country Music
		Steel guitars are a small family of instruments closely related to the six string Spanish guitar.
		To make this easier, the original steel guitar was held in the player's lap, and the electric ones are often referred to as a 'lap steel'.
		While the very first acoustic steel guitars had bodies much like the Spanish guitar, a special off-shoot of acoustic guitar, the resonator guitar first appeared in the 20's and is still popular today.
	www.thanksforthemusic.com /history/old/steelguitar.html (536 words)

	Steel Guitar music
		Somehow, the slack key guitar was not a big part of the uke-steel guitar boom of the 1st half of this century; however with the revival of Hawaiian culture in the 1960's and 1970's the slack key became immensely popular, moreso than ever on the Islands or the mainland.
		Although the invention of the steel guitar style is shrouded in doubt, the first person to make a steel bar and to develop the standard technique was Joseph Kekuku, who moved to the mainland in 1904 and performed and taught until1931.
		These guitars were not particularly popular with the professionals of the time, but were the next step in development; in many ways the steel guitar developed faster and further than almost any other string instrument in the same period.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /hawaii/about_destin/steelguitar.html (1497 words)

	Pedal steel guitar at AllExperts
		The pedal steel guitar is the latest development in a story that started with the invention of the lap steel guitar, probably in Hawaii in the late 1800s.
		Both lap and pedal steel guitars were closely associated with the development of country music, western swing and bluegrass.
		A pedal steel guitar is typically rectangular in shape, and has no sound board but only one or more guitar necks, each together with its head and machine heads, and heavily modified.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/pedal_steel_guitar.htm (1141 words)

	Steel Guitar Black Box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The SGBB is a true, audiophile quality, vacuum tube pickup driver (buffer/impedance matcher) especially designed for enhancing the tone of steel guitar pickups, yet has proven to be equally effective with acoustic instrument pickups, electric bass and guitar pickups, electronic keyboards and drum machines, and much more.
		When used with steel guitar, it is placed directly after the pickup and before the volume pedal.
		The SGBB is the first product available specifically tailored for steel guitar pickups to provide this active preamp stage by using a vacuum tube.
	www.steelguitarblackbox.com /page2/sgbbpage.html (516 words)

	The Pedal Steel Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The pedal steel guitar is only distantly related to the more traditional Hawaiian steel, the big difference being the pedals.
		Like its Hawaiian cousin, the pedal steel is played (in part) by sliding a steel bar up and down the strings, but that's where all similarity ends.
		Because of the inflexible nature of the steel bar, it is impossible to play different strings in different places simultaneously on a non-pedal instrument.
	www.b0b.com /infoedu/thesteel.htm (447 words)

	Kika Kila - Hawaiian Steel Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Steel guitar = a guitar (kika) with strings raised above the fretboard played with a steel bar (kila) manipulated with the left hand.
		This style of guitar playing is said to have originated in the Hawaiian Islands in the mid to late 1880's with as many as three different persons.
		Both are played with a steel bar; however, the tuning of each string of the non-pedal guitar is fixed while it is being played, while the tuning on many of the strings on the pedal steel guitar can be changed with a system of pedals and linkages while the guitar is being played.
	home.insight.rr.com /steelgtr (191 words)

	The Royal Hawaiian Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and Museum
		To our supporters of "The Royal Hawaiian Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and Museum" and to those businesses who use Steel Guitar in their music on a daily basis, their logo and or name will gladly be diplayed here.
		About the steel guitar: as known as Hawaii's own instrument because it was discovered and developed by Joseph Kekuku, at Laie on the island of Oahu Hawaii around 1889.
		His vibrating sliding steel made possible unlimited glissandos, unlimited harmonics, easy slurs and possibilities of expression hitherto undreamed of and to this day unmatched or copied by other instruments or electronic instruments.
	www.steelguitar.org (250 words)

	Steel Guitar Forum Products
		The lap steel is often seen as a beginner's instrument, a stepping stone to the pedal steel.
		In some cases this is true, but one should never forget that mastery of the non-pedaled steel guitar is a fine art, worthy of life-long study.
		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 (1403 words)

	StartUp Steel
		The only ways a player could deviate from the fixed tuning of the guitar were to slant the bar and to pull a string with the finger.
		The birth of the modern Pedal Steel Guitar occurred when someone (Bud Isaacs in particular but no doubt many others in their living rooms) used the sound of bending the string with the pedal as a musical sound.
		There are more starting steel guitarists who started with Mavericks, got inspired and frustrated and went on to higher level steel guitars than there are starting steel guitarists who started with a Maverick, got frustrated, and quit.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/lightsound/startup.html (1698 words)

	Bill Moore's Pedal Steel Guitar Web Page
		The next guitar was an MSA D-10, fl mica, 8 pedals/5 levers, and I kept this one for about 17 years.
		Some people are critical of the old MSA guitars, but I found it to be well designed and built, and I thought it sounded fine also.
		That was a nice guitar, but I found another Carter that had 8 and 8, thinking that this would be better, I bought it and sold the first Carter.
	www.steelplayer.net (813 words)

	Hawaiian Steel Guitar
		We say Hawaiian Steel Guitar and mean, the style of playing a guitar by sliding a steel bar of some kind up and down the strings while laying the guitar flat on your lap, or suspended flat in front of you somehow on legs, or a strap, or table.
		The origin of the steel guitar is more hotly debated, with many stories outlining how it was born.
		Portuguese immigrated as early as 1794, and the guitar was in use in Hawaii in the early 1800's.
	www.pedalsteelguitar.net /histeel.php (1052 words)

	Irish Steel Guitar Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of today's most fascinating instruments, the pedal steel guitar was once limited to Hawaiian and Country music but is now respected as a complex versatile instrument in its own right, capable of interpreting all types of music either as a solo instrument or as accompaniment.
		As a natural progression from the Hawaiian guitar, a stringed instrument played with a metal bar in the late 1800's the contemporary instrument has evolved in leaps and bounds with the addition of pedals and knee levers to raise and lower string pitches thus creating a unique musical effect.
		There are numerous steel guitar clubs and associations throughout the world, staging shows and meetings to promote the instrument and its musicians.
	www.steelguitarireland.com /back.html (315 words)

	Steel Guitar Stories
		Steel guitarist Elmer Hobor, 81, who was an inspiration to Buddy Emmons, myself and many other Indiana musicians has passed on.
		When two or three guitar players and a dance floor full of steel players all get to solo until they run out of licks or break a string, it can really wear a rhythm section out.
		But there was always someone waiting for a chance to sit in, and you could take a break, grab a drink, take a pill, play a little pinball, or slip someone $15 to finish out the night for you if you had a hot babe waiting.
	www.calsharp.com /music (460 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)

	Hillman Guitars 09: Link II - Pedal Steel Guitar
		THE STEEL GUITAR was invented in Hawai`i by a Hawai`ian, Joseph Kekuku, in the late 1800's.
		Of course, the guitar was wildly popular and thus, Jackson was born.
		His first "electric" guitar creation was made by jamming his mother's phonograph needle in to the top of a guitar.
	www.hillmanweb.com /hillgt09.html (2029 words)

	TECHNOLOGY and Engineering by Harmos Steel Guitars
		In other words, removing weight from a guitar soundboard or stretching the old can and string telephone more will change the natural frequencies of the sound that comes through.
		By the laws of physics, (see Figure 1) a driving voice or string moving at frequencies less than 1.4 times the natural frequency of the structure will be supported/amplified.
		Due to it's lightweight carbon fiber construction and stiff space frame design, the Harmos guitar is the ONLY guitar that has fundamental natural frequencies calculated above 800 Hz.
	www.harmosmusic.com /tech.htm (480 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.
		Additionally we sold 6 other lap steel guitar Proto's with another roller system made of 3/4" brass turned down to.700 flattened to.625 and turned on the super lathe to the same exacting depth and spacing as we use on our super sonic lap steel guitar instruments.
	www.georgeboards.com (2156 words)

	Instructional Steel Guitar Videos
		Watch the fascinating interaction as pedal steel master Doug Stock plays the licks then Forest copies them on guitar.
		Video is done by Grammy award winner Cindy Cashdollar, who is the steel guitar player for the country band 'Asleep at The Wheel'.
		The sacred steel tradition is embodied in Darick Campbell's vocal-like, evocative sounds on the non-pedal lap steel.
	www.andplay.com /steelguitar.htm (337 words)

	Lone Star Steel Guitar
		"HOOKED ON STEEL", I began my musical life as a drummer, growing up in the Big Band Era, and after 25 years got into Country music, Was lucky enough to have drummed in a band with C.C. Johnson, (Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame) and that led to a few lessons, and much encouragement.
		That was over 20 years ago, and for the last 15, I have been building,repairing and experimenting on steels.
		Tho sometimes frustrated like all steel players get from time to time.
	www.lonestarsteelguitar.com (128 words)

	Shubb Pearse guitar steels
		Our guitar steels are designed by musicians with the special demands of today’s playing styles in mind.
		The original Shubb-Pearse Steel designed by John Pearse is favored by many 8-string lap steel and Hawaiian guitarists for its extra length (3 3⁄8") and cutaway bullet tip.
		The basic steel: the same familiar shape many players have used for years, but features the superior materials and workmanship associated with all of our products.
	www.shubb.com /sp/index.html (183 words)

	Steel Guitar Instructional Videos and DVDs, Pedal Steel Guitar Lessons
		Pedal 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.musicridge.com /steel_guitar.htm (386 words)

	Pedal Steel Guitar Instruction and Accessories
		The seminar is sponsored by the Texas Steel Guitar Association.
		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 (1676 words)

	Lone Star Steel Guitar
		"HOOKED ON STEEL", I began my musical life as a drummer, growing up in the Big Band Era, and after 25 years got into Country music, Was lucky enough to have drummed in a band with C.C. Johnson, (Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame) and that led to a few lessons, and much encouragement.
		That was over 20 years ago, and for the last 15, I have been building,repairing and experimenting on steels.
		Tho sometimes frustrated like all steel players get from time to time.
	www.lonestarsteelguitar.com /index.html (128 words)

	Professional Pedal Steel Guitar, Slide Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, and Dobro Overdub Tracks for Your Music ...
		Maybe you have attempted to simulate a steel guitar using synthesizers and samplers.
		But because it is one of the most expressive musical instruments ever created, the steel guitar is difficult to successfully emulate in this manner.
		Steel Guitar Tracks Online was created by producer, engineer, and steel guitarist Tommy Detamore, in response to the ever-increasing demand for his services.
	www.steelguitartracksonline.com /index.html (291 words)

	Pedal Steel and Lap Steel Instruction
		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.
		Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of the Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, this course teaches E9 tuning, Nashville set-up pedal steel with three floor and three knee levers.
		Sections describe how to tune the pedal steel guitar, which picks to use, slides, explanations of signs and symbols, and the use of right/left hand positions.
	steelguitarmusic.com /instruction.html (1233 words)

	Guitar Nine Records
		Visit the Instrumental Guitar Showcase to browse and listen to all of these dynamic recordings, or check out our recommendations page.
		If you've released an instrumental project, get all the details about merchandising through Guitar Nine Records, and decide if it's right for your music (if you've released a guitar-oriented CD with vocals, click here).
		GUITAR SPIELEN: Gitarre Spielen`s mission is simple: To provide the guitarist community a home on the web.
	www.guitar9.com (495 words)

	Pedal Steel Guitar Tablature
		I started out playing the Pedal Steel Guitar before the age of 14.
		I've noticed that a lot of Steel Guitar players would like a tab of different songs, so I decided to setup a web site mainly for tablature.
		I do have links to other Steel Guitar sites and if you have a site that you would like to have included, please send me an email to Jeff@steelguitartablature.com to have your site added.
	www.steelguitartablature.com (273 words)

	Welcome to The Texas Steel Guitar Association's Home Page
		The TSGA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting steel guitar music, performance, and education in Texas, the United States, and the world!
		R.D. was a talented steel guitarist and was Vice President of the Texas Steel Guitar Association for many years.
		There are many of you in the steel guitar family that will be saddened by his passing and there are those in the steel guitar community who didn't know R.D. We assure you that you missed an opportunity of great friendship if you didn't know him.
	texassteelguitar.org (471 words)

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