A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...

The lap steel guitar, operated by sliding a steel bar along steel strings, is both an instrument and a style of playing. A new CD, Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar, explores the wide variety ...

Spencer Bohren demonstrates one of his many lap steel guitars at his home. 'I'm addicted, what can I say?' He performs at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Friday, May 3, 2013. (Keith Spera / NOLA.com | ...

The lap steel guitars in Ryan Rukavina's Missoula luthier shop don't look like anyone else's. They have balanced but asymmetrical curves on either side of the wide necks, and the custom-built models ...