Vintage Lap and Pedal Steel Guitars

Strictly speaking, a steel guitar is any guitar made out of metal, which means it can be a resonator guitar used for the blues and Americana music, a lap steel guitar popular with those who play Hawaiian music, or a venerable pedal steel, which is what gives country-western music and Texas swing their distinctive sounds. While the first resonator guitars made in the 1920s only featured an aluminum amplifying cone where the guitar's sound...Continue Reading