cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan"—and a certain Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electromagnetic pickups for it. Now, 90 years later, the Kassell, Germany-based ...

But while the lap steel guitar can still be found in country and ... In other versions, he used a metal comb, or a penknife’s back, or a razor’s edge. Whatever the initial spark, Kekuku ...

An aluminum “frying pan” lap steel made by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation in 1932 is often called the first electric guitar. In 1945, Leo Fender, a radio repairman in Fullerton, California ...

I’ve been campaigning for more slide guitar in metal for years — what would some nasty pedal steel licks sound like amidst wicked slams?? — and my wish has finally been granted by Velocihamster, the ...

A devastatingly distinctive guitar player, Williamson also acts ... that he can seamlessly step into the role of a lap steel playing, metal-music head, fronting a band with robust results.

In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed to sit a rung ...

N.C., he picked up a lap steel his uncle had built for his mother. Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns ...

In others, he utilized a metal comb, or a penknife’s back ... including an online museum and a pilot program to make lap ...