Lap Steel Origins
Hawaii is where lap steel guitars got their start.
Who actually invented the lap steel guitar is a mystery. Some say a school aged Hawaiian biy named Joseph Kekuku accidentally stumbled across the sound when he took a railroad spike and slid the metal along the strinds of his guitar.
Other people who are credited with the [...]
Lap Steel Guitar: Definition
A lap steel guitar is laid across your lap, instead of being held like a typical guitar. The strings of a lap steel are considerably higher off the fretboard so you can lightly press a steel bar on it, which gives the sweet slide sound lap steel guitars are known for. Instead of the regular [...]