Steel Guitar - Instruments

Instruments

A steel guitar is one designed to be played in steel-guitar fashion.

Historically, these have been of many types, but two dominate:

  • Resonator guitars, particularly the square-necked variety which can only be played in steel guitar fashion.
  • Electric instruments, starting with electric lap steel guitars and developing through the console steel guitar to the pedal steel guitar.

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