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2. Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia

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   The Dobro or resonator guitar is a uniquely American lap steel guitar with a resonator cone designed to make a guitar louder. [15]: 109 It was patented by the Dopyera brothers in 1927, [15]: 109 but the name "Dobro", a portmanteau of DOpyera and BROthers, became a generic term for this type of guitar. [44]

3. Fender (company) - Wikipedia

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   The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers.Fender produces acoustic guitars, bass amplifiers and public address equipment; however, it is best known for its solid-body electric guitars and bass guitars, particularly the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Precision Bass, and the ...

4. Console steel guitar - Wikipedia

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   Console steel guitars are typically heavier instruments that have multiple necks and/or more than six strings per neck and are therefore not manageable on the player's lap. This type of instrument was created when players in the late 1940s needed to play in different keys and with different chords than the lap steel afforded. [ 1 ]

5. Fender White Steel - Wikipedia

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   The White Steel was a steel guitar made by the Fender company. It was released as a student model in 1956 and was sold with the matching amplifier. [1] Electrics

6. Noel Boggs - Wikipedia

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   Noel Edwin Boggs (November 13, 1917 – August 31, 1974) was an American musician who was a virtuoso on the lap steel guitar and a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.He was one of the pioneers in electric steel guitar who helped popularize the instrument beyond its native Hawaiian music into other genres of American popular music, specifically Western Swing.

7. The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can ... - AOL

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   The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, which utilized a similar gliding technique while holding the guitar upright.