Steel guitar
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A steel guitar is a guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrume
Three types of steel guitars: resonator (left), lap steel (right), pedal steel (background)
An advertisement for the Broadway show "The Bird of Paradise"
An electric lap steel guitar. Note that the instrument bears only token resemblance to the traditional guitar shape.
Slide guitar played with slide on musician's little finger
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
Steel guitar
…guitar, is now known as "slide guitar" and is commonly associated with blues and rock music. Bluegrass artists adapted the Hawaiian style of playing in a resonator guitar known as a "Dobro", a type of steel guitar with a reinforced neck, sometimes played with the musician standing and the guitar facing upward held…
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)