"You can pluck a chord and use the pedals ... Its mechanics have very little to do with guitar as most recognize the instrument, or even the open-tuned Hawaiian lap steel, from which the pedal ...

The pedal steel guitar had evolved from the Hawaiian lap steel guitar ... the technique to execute dazzling runs and complex jazz chord changes. Throughout his career, Mr. Emmons created new ...

“Our mother taught us to sing a chord,” Megan said ... So Rebecca taught herself electric guitar and Megan took up the lap steel, which is played with a slide. Introduced to the U.S. by ...

a descendant of the Hawaiian slack-key guitar that is set on the lap, tuned to a chord, and played with a slide. An aluminum “frying pan” lap steel made by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation in 1932 is ...

In 1931, the very first electrically amplified stringed instrument sold commercially was a simple, all-metal, cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan"—and a certain Adolph ...