Lap Steel Guitar Manufacturers

Like some lap steel models pedal steel instruments are housed inside consoles and supported by legs.

Lap steel guitar manufacturers.

The electromatic model 2700 is tobacco brown with a 22 5 inch scale length single coil pickup and is made of luan wood. As the name implies they feature pedals and knee levers to bend and slur notes. The jet mainliner g6147 lap steel is tobacco sunburst made of mahogany and has a gretsch dynasonic pickup. Gretsch had two lap steel models the first by a major guitar manufacturer since the 1970s.

From the range of guitars the one that we are going to discuss here is the steel guitars that are played in the horizontal position by placing on the lap. The performer changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings as opposed to a traditional guitar where the performer s fingertips press the strings against frets.