Lap Steel Guitar: Definition
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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 guitar tuning of standard guitars, lap steel guitars are usually tuned to an “open tuning”.
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