Slide guitar
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Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissan
A musician playing slide guitar style. The slide is on his left ring finger. He is playing a National-type metal-body resonator guitar using fingerpicks on his right hand.
Ry Cooder using a glass slide in 2009
Wooden resonator guitar played with a steel, angled to form a chord unavailable from straight open tuning.
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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
Slide guitar
…while the slide is moved over the strings to change the pitch. The guitar may also be placed on the player's lap and played with a hand-held bar (lap steel guitar). Creating music with a slide of some type has been traced back to African stringed instruments and also to the origin of the steel guitar in Hawaii…
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.