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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. Bill Asher (guitar maker) - Wikipedia

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   He has been in the guitar repair and restoration business for over 30 years and has been building high-end, custom guitars for 15 years. [2] He is best known for helping revive the lap steel guitar instrument [3] into popular music by creating a modern-day lap steel guitar that is now used in a variety of musical genres. [4] [5]

4. Framus - Wikipedia

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   Paul McCartney's first guitar was a Zenith (built by Framus on commission from Boosey & Hawkes), which he still owns. [11] Phil Campbell of Motörhead uses several Framus guitars. [12] Earl Slick, guitarist for David Bowie and New York Dolls, uses a Framus signature guitar. [13] [14]

5. 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.

6. Electromuse - Wikipedia

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   Electromuse also made Spanish acoustic guitars, hollowbody acoustic-electric guitars, and other stringed instruments. Vacuum tube instrument amplifiers manufactured by subcontractors such as Valco were also sold under the Electromuse brand, often as part of a package deal offered to consumers that included a lap steel guitar and matching ...

7. 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.

8. Vega Company - Wikipedia

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   Vega also produced two successful lines of Hawaiian, or lap steel, guitars: The Vega Commander, and its top-of-the-line Triumphal which featured a lap as well as a console version. As the 1940s and 1950s unfolded, the quality of Vega instruments declined and it became clear that the company's most innovative and productive years had passed.

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