Tools - In order to play a lap steel guitaryou will require one steel bar, two finger picks and one thumb pick in addition to your guitar.They also don’t include certain features of pedal steel guitars, like pedals and knee levers Console steel guitars - these are supported on mechanical legs and, as such, aren’t technically lap guitars.Electric lap steel guitars - originally marketed as Hawaiian electric guitars, these guitars typically have six to ten strings and work in a very similar way to regular electric guitars.R esonator guitar - often played in the lap guitar style and the more common square necked versions are limited to this playing position due to their design.They were originally referred to as Hawaiian guitars and feature a factory raised nut that allows the artist to press the bar against the stringsto produce the distinctive sound They use a similar sound box to Spanish guitars. Lap slide/Hawaiian guitars - the original design for lap steel guitars.They are also common in country-western and Texas swing music due to the distinctive sound that they produce.

Lap steel guitars originally became popular with the Hawaiian music genre.

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