Lap steel guitar
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The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the per
Fender Champion electric lap steel guitar
Rickenbacker Electro Bakelite Hawaiian 7 string model lap steel c. 1938 – a type played by Sol Hoopii. Note that it is a solid block with only a token resemblance to a guitar shape.
Rickenbacker Console 758 tripleneck steel
Dobro guitar – Dobro guitar played standing. Note the height of strings off fretboard.
Resonator guitar
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A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones, instead of to the guitar's soundin
Single cone resonator with metal body
Early resonator guitar
First National resophonic guitar (c. 1926–7)
Dobro-style "spider" resonator on a Hohner guitar (cover removed)