Lap steel guitar

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Title

Lap steel guitar

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a custom-made lap steel guitar (also known as a Hawaiian guitar). Steel guitar is the name given to this kind of guitar but also refers to a method of playing using a metal slide (or 'steel'). Lap steel guitars typically comprise only the neck as it appears on a normal guitar. A musician lays the instrument horizontally in their lap facing upward towards them. Rather than press the strings onto the fret board like a normal guitar, the musician presses a metal slide against the strings...

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Format

Image

Date created

2004

Creator

Bill Sevesi

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/688018

Related subjects

pine / metal / metallic paint / plastic / steel guitars / electric guitars / guitars / Tonga / Polynesian / Auckland / Bill Sevesi

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