Acoustic lap steel guitars have hollow bodies and sound holes to naturally amplify them. They’re great for playing at home but need to be miked up to use on stage. National or “Dobro” lap ...

Do you play staccato? It’s really what you do ... including an online museum and a pilot program to make lap steel guitars out of invasive tree species in Hawaii. “There is a great renaissance ...

Singing and playing lap steel guitar on a bluesy version of Cruz’s “Mama’s Lil’ Baby,” it was produced for Hawaiian Airlines’ in-flight Island Harmonies series. “John told me he was ...

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 ...

A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret ...