The sound of the slide guitar can be quite similar to the steel guitar. The slide guitar is typically a standard guitar, held the usual way, and fretted with a piece of metal or glass, typically a tube worn on one finger. There will be many links on these sites which will take you to further sites. Joe Wright has a great web site with lots of information on learning to play pedal steel guitar.Īll these sites have good information for the pedal steel guitar enthusiast- I recommend you check them all out. Another good site is run by Dave Van Allen (check out his steel guitar timeline!). Bobby Lee Quasar had the first pedal steel guitar site on the internet and runs a most excellent Steel Guitar Forum with many good discussions. They're the hosts of the Steel Guitar Information website. Carter Steel Guitars has a very good site with lots of information. There are many web sites devoted to the pedal steel guitar if you want more information. Finally pedals and knee levers were attached to the strings, allowing the player to change tunings as the guitar is played. As the guitars got heavier, they were placed on legs, changing from lap steels to table steels. Additional strings were added, then additional necks. The steel guitar eventually mutated as players sought to expand its usage. Well known modern Dobro® players include: Jerry Douglas According to Bangs Tapscott, other resophonic guitars should be referred to as a TIFKAD ( The Instrument Formerly Known As Dobro). You will see these referred to as "resophonic" or "ampliphonic" guitars. Other resonator-equipped guitars are made by many different companies. "Dobro®" is a registered trademark of the Original Musical Instrument Company. Many country and bluegrass players use the Dobro® (or a resonator guitar), a steel guitar which uses an internal resonator to make it louder. There's also a good Weissenborn site in Spain. These guitars have experienced a revival due to their use by such artists as David Lindley and Ben Harper among others.Ĭhristiaan Oyens has an excellent site devoted to these instruments. Due to their sweet timbre, expressive tone and eye catching design these guitars were an instant hit and stayed in demand until the advent of resonator guitars. With their raised string action, frets flush with the fingerboard, square hollow necks and featherweight koa wood construction, the Weissenborns offered both greater volume and sustain than conventional Spanish neck guitars for Hawaiian lap steel playing. Both makers' guitars are sought after and imitated by contemporary builders, although they are usually referred to generically as Weissenborn guitars. Knutsen made similar guitars in the Seattle area at the same time. With the Hawaiian music boom of the early 20's, Weissenborn started making ukeleles, flat-tops and eventually Hawaiian steel guitars. In 1910 he moved to Los Angeles where he mainly did repair work on instruments until the end of the decade. Weissenborn, a German piano and violin maker, emigrated to New York around 1902. The forefather of the National, Dobro® and pedal steel guitars was conceived and built by Hermann Weissenborn in the early 1920's. Performers who are well known as steel guitarists (as opposed to slide guitarists) include: Speedy West More information about Hawaiian steel guitar may be found on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association web site. From there, the steel guitar slid its way into rock, pop, African and Indian music. The sound of the Hawaiian guitar was picked up and incorporated into blues and country music. From about 1915 to 1930, a large number of Hawaiian guitar methods and songs were published by the major music publishers. From there the sound of the Hawaiian guitar spread throughout the United States. Hawaiian groups were a big hit at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Other persons who have been credited with the invention of the steel guitar include Gabriel Davion, an Indian sailor, around 1885, and James Hoa, a Hawaiian of Portuguese ancestry. Intrigued by the sound, he taught himself to play using the back of a knife blade. He picked up a bolt lying by the track and slid the metal along the strings of his guitar. Legend has it that Joseph Kekuku, a Hawaiian schoolboy, discovered the sound while walking along a railroad track strumming his guitar. Steel guitars were originally invented and popularized in Hawaii. Typically the lap steel guitar is tuned in one of several "open" tunings rather than standard guitar tuning. The strings are raised above the fretboard rather than pressing them to the fretboard, a steel bar is pressed against the strings. The lap steel guitar is held in your lap facing toward you. The steel guitar differs from a regular guitar in the way that it is played.
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