In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed to sit a rung ...

The founder of the now-defunct Steel Guitarist magazine, he has played and repaired pedal steels for nearly a half-century, selling parts through his Bay Area-based Pedal Steel Guitar Products.

Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long associated with Hawaiian music — into blues, rock and funk to dazzling effect, died Dec. 24 at his home ...

When DaShawn Hickman was 4 years old, living just 32 steps from the tiny granite House of God church in Mount Airy, N.C., he picked up a lap steel his uncle had built for his mother.

“It's a creation of dozens of different parts. ... Gilmour plays his Jedson lap-steel guitar with Pink Floyd on the Animals tour at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands, February 1977.

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath ...

Along with the $1,781 (€1,710) Cosmo and the brand's Gravis bass guitar, Stummvoll has now released his latest creation, the $1,935 (€1,860) Orbit, a baritone guitar.

Ann Arbor's Gerald Ross holds a 1936 Rickenbacker Bakelite lap steel guitar. Ross will perform at the Fretboard Festival.KALAMAZOO -- From the lilting music of Hawaii to the wail of country and ...

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner pulls inspiration from Korean breath-hold divers, robotic love, Jimmy Fallon, tubular bells and the sad and thrilling moments in life.

Lap steel guitar ace Rocco DeLuca will play the Pub Station Thursday, April 16, with Johnathan Thomas Wright aka J III, and Old Man. Tickets for the age 21-plus show are $10 in advance and $12 at ...

In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed to sit a rung lower than that initial trio. It was dubbed the Champion 800, a name ...