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 ...

Nothing cries as convincingly as a pedal steel guitar. While that sound breaths ... “After about a year of being quasi-retired, the pool table we owned was covered in the steel guitars I had ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel ...

Davis' smooth, melodic, quivery, trembly steel guitar sounds rise through the house. Davis' hands move on the table, the fingers of his right hand tapping. But then he makes it evident he's just ...

In 1931, the very first electrically amplified stringed instrument sold commercially was a simple, all-metal, cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan"—and a certain Adolph ...

Joe Goldmark may boast a staggering record collection, be a partner in a famously ecumenical record store and play all kinds of pop music on his pedal steel guitar, but he admits his musical ...