In 1931, the very first electrically amplified stringed instrument sold commercially was a simple, all-metal, cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan"—and a certain Adolph ...

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

But while the lap steel guitar can still be found in country and other types of music, the Hawaiian steel guitar garners little recognition today, even on the island of Oahu, its birthplace.

N.C., he picked up a lap steel his uncle had built for his mother. Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns ...

Before his death, Brown played the lap steel guitar for the Cincinnati-based punk rock Americana band 500 Miles to Memphis. The band announced his death on Facebook Thursday night. "Our brother ...

We were just a string band.” So Rebecca taught herself electric guitar and Megan took up the lap steel, which is played with a slide. Introduced to the U.S. by Hawaiian musicians around the turn ...